FOURTEEN YEARS ago today,
rock guitarist Ted “the Motor City
Madman" Nugent caused a storm
of public protest when he carved
his autograph into a fan's arm with
the point of a Bowie knife.

Some sobering facts from the
Vancouver Board of Trade on
everyone's favorite subject: Hf the
federal debt (rounded off to $400
billion for convenierice’s sake) was
converted to $100 bills, there would
be enough bills to pave the Trans-
Canada highway from Vancouver
to Ottawa, Tf the biHs were laid end
to end, it would take a 747 jet —
fying at 550 mph (805 koi) — 36
days to fly fram one end to the
other. The deficit, meanwhile. ($45
billion worth of interest payments
in fiscal 93/94) would provide three
meals per day, plus Ups, at the local
White Spot for every man, woman
and child in British Columbia. Or,
it could pay the monthly grocery
bill for every family in Canada west
of Ontario. And perhaps the most
sobering of all: If the deficit were
zero, the average employed person
in Canada would see his/her taxes
reduced by over $3,600 per year.

In July, thieves with a blaw
torch broke into an unmarked trac-
tor-trailer parked at an Orlando,
Florida, motel and stole bags con-
taining 400,000 quarters while a

guard slept in the truck's cab.
‘Authorities said the loot was so
heavy that it would be difficult
even for two full-sized cars to carry
it off

Compiled by A.P. McCredie

Last week, a Kelowna man was
fined $275 for using a counterfeit
$100 note to purchase alcohol. A
suspicious clerk fater examined the
bill and found not only was the
word Canada spelt wrong, one side
had an advertisement in French,
Crown counsel Paige Johnstone
said, “It was an obvious forgery.”

Damon Washington, 25, was
arrested in November in San
Francisco and charged with
shoplifting cassette tapes ata
record store, After an investigation,
police said that Washington had
Just escaped from a medicit! prison
facility and that he needed some
tapes to play in the car while riding

The Sait Lake Tribune reported
in December that police officer
N.S. Hall bad recently arrested two
men for engaging in sex ina car in
Ogden, Utah. and had taken them to
the police station, Due toa mix-up
at the station, the men were locked
up in the same cell, and immediate:
ly began having sex again,

On Jan, 1. the gevernment of
Pakistan under the direction of the
prime minister, Ms. Benazir
Bhullo, opened a potice station in
Ishumabad run entirely by women
—— lo deal only with crimes com-
Milled against females.

In October, a Los Angeles jury
convicted James Ambrose MeGrath
of 18 armed robbery and weapons
violations for a string of nine area
bank robberies totaling almost $1
million, McGrath said his primary
motive was “to warn the United
States that Japan is planning a
sheak thermonuclear attack against
us.” In January, MeGrath was sen-
tenced tu 30 years in prison.

In November, Carmen
Fricdewald-Hill, 26, was sentenced
to 20 years in prison in Frederick,
Maryland, for shooting - her
boyfriend to death. She shot him in
the stomach during an argument
over who loved the other more.

. NEWS photo Mike Wakefield

CAPILANO MALL marketing director Kerri Constable
(left) recently presented the North Vancouver Christmas
Bureau with a cheque for $7,200, raised through the
mall's “Free photo with Santa” fundraiser. Joining
Constable are (left to right), Robert Barnes, regional
manager of Blacks Cameras; Trixi Agrios, North Shore
News’ pramotion manager; and the Christmas Bureau’s
Peter MacKay.

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