I am taking a big leap of faith here.  I am going to review an activity.  Copying from the U.S., more and more Canadians are joining The Cash Mob Craze.  It is quite simple really.  A group of people pick a city, than select 6 businesses that must be independently and locally owned.  A poll is taken through Facebook to select the winning store.  The store that was picked is The Hobby Shop.  It is a classy institution in our city.  Than the people tweet to as many people they know with time and date.  So, last Saturday, between noon and 3 pm dozens of people mobbed the store and spent at least $20.00 each.  The action was highly successful.  It was even featured in our local paper. 

Marketplace is now almost 40 years old and they just get better and better.  Last's night 1 hour episode was particularly shocking.  Marketplace set up a sting operation on repairmen.  In the GTA they rented a house, hired a female actor to play the owner and wired the house with hidden cameras and microphones.  They tighten the chain on the toilet, loosen the hose in the kitchen sink and plugged the hose in the dishwasher.  Tom Harrington and the camera crew would hide upstairs to watch.  They than called repairmen to test their competence and honesty.  Some of the repairmen were amazing.  They immediately discovered the problem and fixed it often at no charge. The others, though, were incredibly dishonest and/or incompetent.  The sink is "toast" and needs to be replaced, the toilet needs expensive parts, the dishwasher requires major repair, etc.  

I have a confession to make.  I have a secret love of end of the world movies plus zombie movies.  So imagine my thrill when I discovered my two loves combined in a television series!