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THE following people
have appeared in North
Vancouver court in
connection with drink-
ing and driving related
offences:

Wayne George Russell, 49,
of North Vancouver, was
fined $450 and had his dri-
ver's licence suspended for 12
months after he pleaded guilty
to impaired driving.

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Pamela Rose-Marie Paull,
42, of North Vancouver, was
fined $450 and had her dri-
ver’s licence suspended for 12

months after she pleaded
guilty to having a blood alco-
hol level greater than .08.

of Richmond, was fined $300
and had his driver’s licence
suspended for 12 months for
impaired driving.

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Jon Darryt Hamilton, 55,
of Coquitlam, was fined $500
and had his driver's licence
suspended for 12 months
after he pleaded guilty to hav-
ing a blood alcohol feve!

greater than .08.

of Reading (Fngland)

University told The Thnes of

London in May that “several”
firms had approached him
about surg
transponder microchips into

‘their workers as a way of

keeping track of their hours
and whereabouts.
Cybernetics expert: Warwick
las put a chip into. his
own forearm to demonstrate
the technology, which will be
further exhibited in England
beginning in 2001 to ke

track of pets and might, he

said, be used to keep track of

people who are granted
licences to carry firearms.

Jose Marta Lopez

foot amputated at Whittier
(Calif.)} Hospital Medical
Center. He still has two
remaining; what was taken
was a 6einch, footlike growth
inside his left ankle that has
always hampered his walking
and limited his shoe selection.
And a few days earlicr, in San
Pedro Sula, Honduras, sur-
geons removed a miniature
botrle from the rectum of a
Sr. Jose Lopez, 43. He said
he got drunk and passed our
and thus has no idea how the
bortle got there.

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In) May, controversial

Phoenix tough-guy sheriff

Joe Arpaio announced he
would institute bedtime sto-

es at the Maricopa County
jails, consisting of audiotapes

of classic novels (c.g., Little

Women) to be read at lights-
our every night. The novels
replace the previous bedtime
fare, which ran for four years:
a videotaped lecture s by
former Speaker of the Hous
Newt Gingrich.

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Life’s little ~—_ ironies:
According to an April Tampa
Tribune story, the following
fates have befallen young men
who in recent years have
recovered the submerged,
rcligiously-biessed cross in
annual diving competitions
during the Epiphany festival
in Tarpon Springs, Fla.: One
died in a car accident; one
suffered a severe spinal injury;
one was arrested on burglary
charges; and, this year,
according to police, nwo for-
mer winners and a third diver

ally implanting ~

were charged with attempted
murder for bashing two peo
ple’s skulls with shovels
because their car was: going
too slow.

In Montreal, Quebee, in
December, convicted serial
killer Allan Legere
announced — through his
lawyer that he had increased
the amount of his 1994 law-
suit against the prison for its
failure to stop inmates from
beating him up.

Legere is serving life for
five murders, including the

rape and torture killings of

three women and the beating
death of a Catholic priest.
One witness against Legere
said she once remarke
him, “You like to tortu
whereupon Legere alleg

ponded, “S

In the election campaign
of 1998, Fred Morgan, the
new Republican leader in the
Oklahoma

ntatives, personally
embraced the parry’s propos-
1g Motor v
regulation, including
cracking down on re
who drive with out-of-state
licence plates; in December,
Morgan admitted that the car
in his parking space at the
capitol, with the Arkansas tag,
was his (but that he would
register it in Oklahoma as
soon as his late mother’s pro-
bate got taken care of}.

And in February, Katrina
Clark, the director of housing
code enforcement for the city
of Boston, was evicted trom
her apartment for failure to
pay more than $3,500 in rent
and for rencging on her
repayment plan.

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In a brawl at 2 recreation
league softball game in
Granada Hills, Catif., in
March, which started after an
umpire changed a call trom
safe to out, four off-duty Los
Angeles police officers on one
of the teams were roughed up
with softball bats. Things
went so bad for the officers
that one ran fo his car,
retrieved his weapon, and
held the other team at bay
until on-duty officers arrived.

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Ester Maria Pena, 58, was
convicted and fined $100 in
Frederick County, Md., in
March for a 1998 traffic inci-
dent in which police chased
her at high speeds for four
miles and arrested her at gun-

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Pena had sped off after they
tried to pull her over foe dri-
Ving too slow

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Inexplicable: Jn March,
London's second-largest
newspaper, the Sun, reported
thar 70 pages of medical
records of Queen Elizabeth
Hand other members of the
royal family were found in a
folder, lying on the side of a
road near the southwest
Scotland town of Avr.

In_ January, following his
transfer froma maximum-
security prison to a om
mum-security facility in
British Columbia, convicted
murderer Colin Thatcher per-
suaded warden Ron Wiebe to
let him ship his horse to the

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Sus'eTas

prison he cou tin
some ng. Wiebe told
reporters the prison fias in the
past helped inmates prepare
for post-release careers: in
ranching, but Thatcher, 69, is
ng a fife sentence for

killing his ex-witt

Prominent New York €
chef (and TV cooki
star) David Ruggerio pl:
guilty to attempted grand lar-
ceny in March for inflating at
least 26 credit-card) transac
tions at his Manhattan restau-
rant. According to the
prosecutor, Ruggerio appar-
ently thought he could add

s of $221,000 to credit-
card dinner tabs totaling
$4,000 (including — one
$30,006 tip on a $1,000
check) and nor have the card-
holders notice it.

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