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Teen robbed in NV

THE Lonsdale area was
hit with three robberies
in three days recently.
In the third of the three

incidents, a 14-year-old
Caucasian boy was approached
on June:29 outside the
Subway restaurant outlet at
Third and Lonsdale at around
9.20 p.m.. ‘by two men in their

A third suspect s stood
by the restaurant.”

One ‘OF the men, who was
carrying a three-inch knife, -
“told the teen to hand over his
” wallet, The boy offered to”

” hand over only the cash inside
the wallet. His offer was
accepted by the robber.

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onsdale Quay Plaza)

The suspects are described
as being “Middle Eastern” in
appearance.

No onc was injured in the
incident. Police are investigat-
ing the possibility of a connec-
tion between the June 29 rob-
bery and two similar incidents
that occurred the same weck.
In all three instances, the rob-
bery cook place at knifepoint.
The description of the suspects
was similar in all three inci--
dents.:

Anyone with information is
asked to contact Const. Alison
Coyle at North Vancouver
RCMP (985-1311) quoting
case number 99-20849,

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news of the weird

| This Express is
| one slow crook

IN March 1996 an 18-year-
old dock worker at Roadway
Express in Dallas was arrested
at a focal West2rn Union and
charged with forgery after
improperly trying to cash a
cheque made out to his
employer.

The man produced a
phote ID that gave his name
as Mr. “Roadway V. Express.”

After questioning him, the
Western Union manager said,
“OK, Mr. Express, Pl be
right back (with the moncy),”
but went into another room
and called police.

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A newly arrived British
NA. peacekceper mistaken-
iy turned right instead of left
in Salonika, Greece, and
wound up in Athens (250
miles away) instead of at his
Macedonian border post (50
miles away).

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A Lockheed aeronautics
executive said the company
lost as much as $70 millio
because of a misplaced d
mal point in a sales contr.

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A Home and Garden TV
channel] study revealed that
more men would rather tend
their lawns than have sex.

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An ancient fear of penis-
shrinking sorcery pericdically
surfaces in Ghana in
December 1997.

Mobs beat seven men to
death in Accra and injured
others in Tema, ail on rumors
that the men had the power to
make others’ genitals disap-
pear by a mere touch.

Police said the rumors
were spread by criminal oper-
atives so that crowds of hys:
terical men would gather,
making it easier for the crimi-
nals to pickpocket wallets.

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The city council in Capao
da Canoa, Brazil, voted in
March 1995 to install breath-

alyzer equipment at city hall,
mainly be “use one member,
Delci Romano, — habitually
shows up drunk and demands
tO Cast votes On issues not on
the agenda.

And Katia Nogucira
Tapeti, a city council member
in the state of Piaui, was
recently re-elected and is
widely believed to be the most
popular politician in’ the
stace’s history, despite the
region’s macho culture and
the fact that she is a transves-
tite living openly with her gay
husband.

Q00

i992, — Montesano,
Wash., government prosecu-
tor Steward Menefee
announced in November that
he would not seek a tougher
penalty against convicted
murderer Lee Baca, because
the required “aggravated cir-
cumstances” were not pre-
sent.

Baca had gouged the vic-
tim’s cyes with a screwdriver,
stabbed her to death, and
drunk her blood.

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