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large numbers.

Both Herman and
Wiederick are expecting a
busy night. Friday wasn’t
and -it is rar t both

weekend nights are quiet.

Too, the day has been a
good one, fine and sunny,
and there’s a fear that the
partying may have started
early with an eye on a run
well into the next day.

The prospect of a party or
two like that — perhaps run-
ning out of control — does
not appeal to either
policeman.

‘*We had one a couple of
years ago in Lynn Valley
where the kids dumped all the
furniture into the swimming
pool,’ says Herman.

That prompts Wiederick to
remember the Hillside party
where youths rolled a car
down a hill.

Wiederick, it turns out,
was one of the policemen
called out to deal with a party
last spring that disintergrated
into a full-scale riot.

‘When you’re trying to
discuss a situation like that
after the fact, it’s difficult to
get across the intensity of the

. ~ emotions involved,’’ he says.
>—*Any time you get in a mob

atmopshere | it’s a pretty scary’
thing. Sometimes it seems it
would be preferable to just
walk away from it.”’

Such parties, the
policemen say, are rare.
Three or four a year, maybe.
There will be none this night.

There doesn’t, in fact, ap-
pear to be much doing this
night. There is no one in the
cleared area beside the gravel

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road into the Lynn Valley
watershed. Friday night Her-
man and Wiedrick rousted a
group of youths from. there-
who had been drinking beer
they claimed to have found in
the bushes.

A TRUNKLOAD of booze, for the second time in a night.

*“We’re here because there’s
nothing else to do. We’re
waiting to see what’s. going

-on tonight”. -

**It’s tough to tell them not

to hang around there,”’ says
Wiederick, back in the car.

NEWS photo Mark Hamilton

There are youths at the
Lynn Valley Dairy Queen,
about a dozen of them in
two, loose groups. Herman
parks the car. He and
Wiederick get out to talk to
the. kids. They keep it light
but there’s a clear message —
hang out somewhere else.

““The therchants don’t like
the kids hanging around,”’
Herman says later._

“‘It doesn’t bother me,”’
says one youth when asked
how he feels about the
presence of the police.
*“We’re not doing anything
wrong.’”’

Says the teenaged boy:

“They've got nowhere else to
go.”’

Even if there were, Says
Herman, there would still be
problems.

“Part of what some of
those kids want to do tonight
is drink a little booze and
smoke a little dope,”’ he says.

‘“*What surprises me most
is the number of youths out
in the early hours of the mor-
ning whose parents do ope
know where they are,’’ Her-
man says a few blocks !ater.
**There should be no reason
for a 16-year-old to be runn-
ing around at 1:30 in the

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