What is one thing that happens only in your country?

My favourite "That's so Canada" story involves 24 Sussex (home of the Prime Minister of Canada)

At 2am, in 1995 some asshole decides to assassinate Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. So he gets into his car and just drive right up to the house. He gets out, hops the fence and wanders around the grounds for 20 minutes UNDETECTED. He's just hanging out havin' a look around in the PM's backyard. No security or anything. He was even waving at the fucking cameras with a goddamn knife! Nothing, no response.

So he decides to break into the PM's house. Surly, you would expect that to trigger an alarm. But no, he pokes around the basement for a bit.

He then heads up the bedroom - where the head of our FUCKING GOVERNMENT is fast asleep.

Who is the first to be alerted to this assassin? Aline Chrétien! Jean Chrétien's fucking wife hears this fucker kicking around her house - and she investigates!

She sees him downstairs putting on some gloves, you know for the assassination part, and runs back into bedroom to alert her husband. Alert her husband that someone is here to assassinate him; the totally unprotected leader of the country.

He tells her, in true Jean Chrétien fashion, to go back to bed because she's probably just dreaming. Aline of course calls the cops instead. She then hears the assassin coming down the hall, and she BEATS THE FUCKER WITH AN INUIT STATUE OF A LOON!!!!

She might be one of the most badass Canadian's of all time. Who stopped the assassination attempt on the Prime Minister of Canada? The PM's 60 year old wife, in her night gown, with a goddamn statue. Imagine this situation playing out south of the boarder. Imagine trying to break into the President's bedroom. HOW FUCKING CRAZY IS THIS COUNTRY SOMETIME?

Also, when the cops got to 24 Sussex they realized that they had forgotten the key, and had to head back to the station to get it. WTF!?!

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