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This anecdote has become the ultimate Canada is so clean! tale, a quip that boasts not only that the streets of the country's largest city are so tidy that they need to be dirtied up with deliberately added graffiti and garbage to make them look gritty, but that they can't even remain in that artificially messy state for very long without someone's coming along to clean them up. If this incident ever played out in real life, all indicators point to its happening during a shoot for the television police drama Night Heat and not during a film shoot, as various articles have since attributed it. Our earliest reporting of the legend came from a 1985 newspaper article: By later that year, the story had mutated from it happened during the filming of the TV show Night Heat to it happened during the filming of some unnamed movie: And within three years of the original reporting, the movie variation was being related (as reproduced above) as a favorite Hollywood North tale. Is the tale true? Two unrelated people who worked on Night Heat have shared with us their assurances that it is and explained that the incident took place over a lunch break (rather than a shorter coffee break). And another correspondent wrote to tell us:
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