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July 24, 1994

Cow — Caddy
crush dispute
with ICBC

A NORTH Vancouver resi-
dent has a beef with ICBC.

By Anna Marle D’Angelo
News Reporter

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Arthur Schopp totalled his
immaculate, fully loaded Cadillac
after hitting a cow “almost direct
on™ near Reno, Nevada, on a pitch-
black November night last year.

Since then, Schopp claims ICBC
has been “keeping him on the
hook” as far as the fate of his
unique car and monetary ccmpen-
sation.

“T finally raised Cain and they
finally levied with me... These guys
(ICBC) are a bunch of slime buck-
ets,” said Schopp. 69.

Schopp’s Caddy was a 1992
gold-package dream machine with
a 5.7-litre engine. It had seen just
9,660 kilometres (6,000 miles) of
asphalt when its Gres turned for the
Nevada trip.

Driver Schopp was accompanied
by his wife, brother and sister-in-
law for the vacation. Destination:
Laughlin, Nevada, south of Las
Vegas.

The Caddy had been allowed out
for only two trips before; one to
B.C.’s interior, the other to Reno.
Schopp kept the $46,500 car in
Storage during the winter. Not a
speck of salt, he claims, had ever
touched the car’s frame or light-
blue body.

Schopp said on the way home
on the car's third trip, he observed
an open-range (cattle) sign and set
the cruise control to the specified
55 miles per hour.

The group was travelling on a
two-lane stretch of Nevada’s
Highway 95.

“Out of a clear blue sky the ani-
mal appeared. | had no time to do
anything,” said Schopp.

He lost most of the control of
the car upon collision.

“We went about a quarter mile
down the road with the cow on the
windshield,” said Schopp.

“The cow was dead. f broke all
four legs when it hit,” he said.

Schopp claims he told an out-of-
province ICBC adjustor to arrange
to have the car towed to a Cadillac
dealership in Vancouver.

ICBC spokesman Rick Hyde
said the adjustor noted on a waver
form thal Schopp had verbally
approved that ICBC could tow the
car to its salvage yard in New
Wesnninster.

Hyde said it’s standard: proce-
dure to explain that a verbul release
alsa means if the car is deemed a
write-off, it may be sold as salvage.

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NORTH VANCOUVER resident Arthur Schopp holds up photos of his gotd-package Cadillac that
was totalled when he struck a cow on a Nevada road in November. Since the bovine road kill,
Schopp has been wrangling with ICBC over his claim.

But said Schapp, “There was no
verbal, Pnever stated that.”

The adjustor involved has “since
passed away.” said Hyde, compti-
cating the situation. Sutcide.
Schopp was told,

Hyde said the car was sold for

AON on Jan. F2 tea docal salvage
company aban auction,

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He claims Schepp began to ask
about the car's whereabouts on
March 14.

Schopp maintains that he waited
for someone to call him fram the
Cadibiee dealership to say his car
had arrived.

Sehepp alleges Una ICBC kept
bhimoin the dark and sold the car

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without his apparent permission.

He said he received a cheque for
$32,000 on March 4 for the vehi-
ele.

Hyde said ICBC estimated the
car's value at $28,500, Schopp
hired an evaluator whe said: il wits

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heat no
record

PSSSST... ALL you wool
sweater, fleece-lined boot
wearers out there on the
North Shore, you probably
haven't noticed, but it was
un-bare-ably hot last
week.

By Anna Marie D’Angelo
News Reporter

Granted, it hasn’t been as
hot as say, Osoyoos, which on
Wednesday fried at 41.4°C
(106°F) in a record breaker.

But the Vancouver area
hovered around 28°C during
the week, according to a
spokesman at Environment
Canada’s district weather cen-
tre. The local sea breeze kept
the Vancouver area at “moder-
ate” temperatures compared to
inland locales.

This weekend is supposed
to cool down a bit with clouds
and a chance of thunder show-
ers forecast.

To avoid embarrassing vis-
its from iocal bylaws officers,
residents are reminded that
lawn-sprinkling restrictions
are in effect. Even-numbered
addresses sprinkle Saturday
and Wednesday; odd-num-
bered on Sunday and
Thursday. Watering is restrict-
ed to the hours of 4 to 9 a.m.
and 7 to 10 p.m.

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