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drinking drivers

THE following people
appeared in North Van
court in connection
with drinking and dri-
ving related. offences:

Michael David Wright, 24,
of West Vancouver; was fined
$400 and had his driver’s
licence suspended for 12
months after he pleaded guilty
to impaired driving.

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Douglas Maxwell
Thompson, 58, of. Port
Coquitlam, was fined $1,000,
had his driver’s licence’ sus-
pended for 12 months and
received one. ‘month's proba-

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robbed
A knife-wielding rob-
ber held up the

. Subway Sandwiches
and Salads shop on
Oct. 19 in the

Seymour area.

The robber ieft with the.
shop’s cash drawer containing
2 small amount’ of cash,
according to the North
Vancouver RCMP.

No one was injured during
the 1} p.m. incident.

The Subway shop is locat-
ed at 2075 Dollarton Hwy.

‘The robber is described as
being Caucasian, 1.73 m
(5°8”), 64 kg (140 Ib.), age
30: to 35, Blond hair’ and
unshaven.

“He was wearing a red:
shirt, brown jacket and blue
jeans.

Anyone with information
is asked to call the North
Vancouver RCMP. at 985-

tion after he pleaded guilty to:
@ impaired driving:

@ failing to go to court on
July 8, 1998.

COMPELLING plan-
ations: According to police
who arrested Fairfay (Va.)
High School math teacher
Fred Benevento, 47, in April
during oa drug — sting,
Benevento said the 13 plastic
bays of crack cocaine in his
car “came flying through his
open window” and thar he
“was just looking at them
when the police officers
arrived.”

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In September, Pinellas
Coun Fla., officials
unveiled what they hope will
be a cutting-edge traftie safe-
ty program as a model for
reducing pedestrian deaths
and calming drivers’ road
rage. The program asks
pedestrians to extend 1
tight hands (as if shaking
hands) continuously through
an intersection, while smiling,
to get the attention of drivers.
Said a worker in Clearwater,
Fla., when che program was
explained by a Se. Petersburg
Times reporter: “Nobody is
going to walk across the
street with their arm out. I'm
not going to do it. Are you?”

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Driving Under = The
Influence — The Next Level:
In separate incidents in the
same week in September,
Debra Rodriguez, 41, of
Ames, Iowa, and Kristin R.
Smebak, 34, of Superior,
Wis., both of ‘whom had been
drinking, forced their young
kids to drive their cars home
so the mothers would avoid
DUI tickers if they were
stopped. Rodriguez's inexpe-

rienced 11-year-old daughter ,

caused a rollover, injuring
both occupants, but Smebak’s
inexperienced 8-year-old son

made it safely over the bridge
connecting Duluth, Minn., te
Superior before being spotted
by a patrolman, who arrested
Smebak.

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Failed Murder Defenses:
In May, the Supreme Court
of Canada ruled 5-to-4 to
reject Brad Stone’s “automa-
ton” defense, that he was able
to stab his wite 47 times only
because he was in a robotic
state brought on by the trau-
ma of being called a bedroom
failure,

And in June, an Atlanta
jury rejected Christopher
Stobbart’s claim) of — selt-
defense for shooting his boss
in the head 14 times, then
walking to another room,
reloading and shooting him
10 more times.

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OF Course!: In July, just
after the end of the war,
Yugoslavia’s ecology minister
said the uncomfortably warm
and rainy spring and summer
weather was caused by NATO
aggression,

And in May, a mother in
St. Cloud, Fla, told police
that the reason she let her
teen-age daughters smoke
marijuana was so they would-
n't become alcoholics like
their father.

And Yuji Nishizawa, who
hijacked the All Nippon
Airways Bocing 747 in July
and killed the pilot befcre
being captured, 1old po'sce
his main motivation was to
sce how a real plane flew, after
all the flight-simulation video
games he had played.

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West German crimi
gist Christian Pfeifter, writing

Wednesday. October 27, 1999 — North Shore News — 11

ring the view

in the weekly Die Zete in July,
blamed Germans’ pro-
clivicies for post-war Nazism
and thuggery (they are four
times morc likely to engage in
those activities than West
Germans) on too-rigorous
potty training. After the
Second World War, the East
German government issued
manuals on toilet-training for
kindergartners, requiring, vir-
tually synchronized = move-
ments that stripped the ki

of their individuality and rein
forced government control,

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Insufficient Reasons to
Kill Yourself} = Husband
changed the TV channel
(woman in Colomby, Sri
Lanka, took poison, May);
minor car accident (19-year-
old man immediately hanged
himself from the tree he hit,
Flint, Mich., April); police
showed a court order to clean
up a man’s junky yard (man

shot himself to death,
Brickerville, Pa., March).

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The Litigious  Sociery:
Muriel Milne’s trial began in
Aberdecn, Scotland,
September — against
Westhill Golf Club for main-
taining a badly designed
course, an opittion she came
to in 1994 after a ball she hit
struck a two-inch-high rack
and bounced back, hitting her
i : and causing s
damage. (The trial is recessed
until Novem!

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