12 - North Shore News — Wednesday, June 21, 2000

Tie a duct tape ribbon round the old oak tree

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Duet Tape in the News: In

April, in the woods near
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alliestor, got lost, climbed a
tree for safety as night
approached, and decided to
protect himself against falling
out of the tree by duct-raping

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Al above with wiiften B.C.A.A., inspaction

himself to a branch; rescuers
found him several hours fater.
In March, Massachusetts offi-
cials shut down a day-care
centre in the town of Hadson
following reports that a care-
taker duct-taped an infant to a
wall for amusement. And a
February Associated Press
report touted Harrisburg, IIL,
artist. Keith Drone’s line of
duct-tape clothing, including
baseball caps, wallets, pants,
belts and a bikini; said Drone,
the products are “really cool
looking,” and, he adds, “If it
breaks, just put 3 piece of duct
tape on it.”

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Leading Economic
Indicators: In January, at an
open-air market in Kunming,
China, an appliance dealer had
ahand chopped off by a .om-
petitor who was upset that his
rival was underpricing him.

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Recent CEO Retirement
Packages: Douglas Ivester,
Coca-Cola, $17.8 million plus
$3 million/year, who retired
just after laying off 6,000
employees (February), and
John B. McCoy, Bank One,
$10.3 million pilus $3  mil-
lion/ycar, who retired after
laying off 5,100 employees
(March). On the other hand,
Sidney H. Kosann, CEO of
Shelby Yarn, Shelby, N.C
who reportedly carned a
$300,000 salary and lives in a
$500,000 home, filed in
February for state unempfoy-
ment compensation just after
closing the company and fay-
ing off 650 people.

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According to figures of the
Human Rights Commission
of Pakistan, cited by the
London Daily Telegraph in
March, hundreds of Pakistani
women are deliberately
burned to death each year by
their husbands, cither for
imagined infidelity or increas-
ingly for economic reasons, in
that some Muslim men are
finding it harder to maintain a
two-wife household during
lean times.

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Eighty-cight orbiting satel-
Nites ($5-billion worth) were
scheduled to soon be allowed
to vapourize by the owners of
the iridium telephone compa-
nv which fost hope in April
and May to be rescued from
bankruptcy. Iridium failed to
Jast even 16 months, duc to
the rapid and supposedly
unanticipated imp- ovements
in digital cellular - chnology
that made its 'alky and
expensive handsets iscful only
in remote areas. (Aunong users
of Iridium telephones were
the Chechen rebels at war
with che Russian army.)

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Questionable Judgments:
Brazilian legislator Wilson
Lima told reporters in April
that he still thought his pro-
posal to require clubs and bars
to have three restrooms (male,
female and gays/transvestites,
for their own protection from
homophobic men) was a good
idea, even though Brazil’s
largest gay-rights organization
said it was horrified of such a
prospect.

900

A police cthics committce
in Montreal reprimanded
Officer Robert Royal in
March after he forced a traftic-
stop motort to follow him

ona high-speed chase of

another car. Royal — had
stopped Pierre Boileau for an
egal U-curn when another
officer summoned Royal to
help him chase another car.
Rather than let Boileau go,
Royal ordered him to follow
the chase, which hit about 70
a.p.h. in a 30-m.p.h. zone.
After Royal caught up to the
second car (turns out it was
the wrong car), he finished
writing Boileau’s cicket and
sent him on his way.

Qo00
Four years ago. Edward
Vesluck left his wife and fled
New York City for France
with the couple’s entire $4
million in cash, leaving his
wife to support herself with
modest jobs and eventually to
be evicted from the family
apartment. Since then, she has
won several court orders
against Weslock in the U.S.
and his native Canada, but he
has avoided the judgments by
staying away from both coun-
tries. However, when Weslock
stealthily returned, bricfly, to
the United States in April, Ms.
Yeslock found out and had
him arrested. He had come
back to have a new hairpiece
fitted.

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The Power of Snickers: In
April, a jury in Tyler, Texas,
sentenced, as a habitual crimi-
nal (10 convictions, all rela-
tively minor), Kenneth Payne,

29, to 16 years in prison for

shoplifting a Snickers bar from
4 grocery store. (The incarcer-
anon cost in Texas is report-
edly $15,000 per year per
inmate.) And at a high school
sex-education rally in Chicago
in April, abstinence advocate
Pat Socia told the assembled
teen-agers that if they feel a
sexual urge coming on, “Just
cat a Snickers bar. You'll be
fine!”

900

Undignified Deaths: St.
Pancras Coroner’s Court in
London, England, ruled in
April that the 38-year-old man
who plunged 10 stories to his
death in [slington fast August
had lost his balance while on
his balcony searching for 2 sig-
nal on his cellphone. And 2
30-year-old marathon runner,
who hoped to qualify for the
Olympics, was killed in Las
Vegas in February when he
was hit Ly a van as he ran to:
catch a bus,

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Also, in the Last Month:
An art gallery visitor sat in and
broke a chair, which he did
not realize was part of an
exhibir dating to the Ming
Dynasty and which is valued
at around $100,000 (but it .
was repairable) (Minneapolis).
A rapist was sentenced to only
seven years for his crime
because, noted the judge;
when the victim started ch
ing, he loosened her $8 and ;
gave her a glass of water
(Pontevedra, Spain). A 21-
year-old woman dumped her;
infant off with friends on false. -

retenses so she could fulfil
fer dream by joining a travel-
ing, carnival Buffalor NY. )

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