Crashed car leaves

N. Van fami

Deana Lancaster

News Reporter
deana@nsnews.com

GREG King had only
been in bed fer a short
time when the earth-
shaking smash woke him

up.

“Yt didn’t know what it was ...

then [ heard the alarm going o
and I Krew it was my car,” said
King of the July 25th, 1 a.m.
incident

His mother, Arlene, was the
first out of the house.

From where it was usually
parked, right in front of their
Lith Strect home, Greg's “84
Cutlass Supreme had ‘ n
pushed past a acighbor’s drive-
way and partway up on te the
curh, The back end of the car
was foided down, pinning the
rear tire.

“There was a car two houses
up with smoke and steam pour-
ing out of it. didn’t think he'd
be going anywhere,” Arlene
said,

ft was then that she realized
she was in her nightshirt and
oa in to get dressed and to call

1-1.

again, the driver who'd hit
Greg's car was gone. Ariene fol
lowed the trail of Quids two
blocks to Tatlow Avent where
it U-turned twice and then ran
drvoas it headed) for Marine
Prive.

But as the North Vancouver
ROMP were taking down the
detaiis trom the Kings and tiree

s who sew the accident,

West) Vancouver Police

stopped a car and) 32-year-old

inale driver on Marine Drive. He
admitted hitting Greg’s ear.

On the accident report,
police recorded his blood aleo-
hol level as 2.1 -- alniost three
times over the legal limit.

ICBC estimators deented the
Cutlass a write-off, and based on
the book value, Greg received
$2,400 for the car.

Bur the amount doesn’t
include $2,000 of salvaged and
wholesale parts plus the count-
less hours Greg and family friend
Derrill George put into the car.
And he doesn’t want to buy a
different car.

“We want that car fixed,
George said. “These cars are like
gold; they're hard te find.”

Instead, Greg negotiated
with ICBC adjusters to buy back

n

ly fuming

Its been at the body shep
ever since. and the 24 vear old
has been riding the bus

According to ICBC
spokesman Dean Pelkey, the
company would have paid for a
rental car, since Greg wasn't at
tault for the accident, bur he had
tooask fer one. Gree didn’t,
Pelkey abo poinsed out that
mow rental companies only rent
to drivers aged 25 and olde

Now that Ae’s bought the
back, the file ts closed, and he no
longer gualifies for a rental car,

fromeatly, the driver of the
var that hit Greg's could still be
on the road.

In B.C, v driver charged
with impaired driving has his or
her hcence suspended fo: 24
hours. Following that they have

8 days to appeal the charge
betore s SUSpENsionN goes
ect —- in this case, on

© press time Tuesday, the
News was unable to confirm
that the driver has been charged,
burt if he is still on the read,
Greg and family are steaming
mad.

*They give you all this bull-s-
-c they"re after the drunks,” said

wee. “Bat Greg's the one
walking.”

NEWS photo Paut McGrath

NORTH Van's Greg King sits in front of his
house where his car should be. Inset, a photo
of the damage to his '84 Cutlass Supreme.

By the time they got outside — the vehicle for $190.

| Family finds a real

Anna Marie D’Angelo
' News Reporter dangelo@nsnews.com

IT looked like it escaped from the set
of a bad science fiction movie.

Last Friday Jeff Harris stumbled upon a huge,
pump, winged insect amidst debris left near the

igh tide line at West Vancouver's Sandy Cove
beach.

The insect measured three inches in length
(7.5 cm) without its antennae. Harris estimated
that in flight, the bug would be as large as a
hummingbird.

“When I was a kid, we would have loved to
scare the girls with thar,” said Harris, a fine art
and antique dealer.

Harris, his wife, their 12-year-old daughter
and their daughter’s friend were at the small

Massive beetle at WV

beach a forest creature

beach fora swim, Sandy Cove beach is located
in the Westmount area, cast of Lighthouse Park.
His wife first spotted the creature and called
him over.
“After [saw it, | thought abour charging kids
to ride it,” quipped Harris.
He picked it up by the “back of the should
and placed it in a plastic bag.
Harris is in his late 40s and a lite-long North
t. The North Vancouver man said
g iike that around here.
suspected the creature may have flown
from a fercign freighter in the harbe

ly big bug

After a call to the entomological museum at
UBC, Harris is convinced the creature was local.
He said a UBC insect expert described the bug
in amazing detail.

Harris said the bug was identificd as a long-
horned beetic. It lives in old-growth forrest.

“It cats the big conifers. [ imagine that one
was probably from Lighthouse (Park),”
Harris.

Capilano College biology lab supervisor
Christine Sanderson also suspects the bug was a
iarge, local woud beetle.

Sanderson said she is not a insect expert and
needed “to get the books ouc” to definitely iden-
tify the insect. Sanderson said most focal bugs are
not poisenous

The buge beetle died on Saturday after it laid
some tiny cxgs.

NV City firefighters are back in black

Liam Lahey
Contributing Writer
REAL men wear black.

Just ask those who wear North
Vancouver City’s new fire and rescue

biack outtit is a universal tradi-

firefighters dating back to the
turn of the century. Assistant Chief
Barric Penman said) the North
Vancouver precinct is the first in
Canada to revert to its original colors
for emergency gear.

“When we had to upgrade our gear,
we decided to go tor the traditional
look,” Penman said.

The switch trom white coats and
helmets with reflective crim to the new
black uniforms took place over a pvo-
year period and cost $75,000.

Penman said the uniform’s history
derives from fire departments in New

ays worn black,”

Penman said. “We like the unique look

of the uniforms and they can withstand
up to 1,400 degrees F.

Outfitted in traditional, black hel-

mets and black coats, che bold look of

North Vancouver’s Fire and Rescue

{
NEWS photo Brad Lodwicge

- unit goes to prove that the good guys © JOHN Sheel, left, Mike Walker, Bob Poole, Brian Green, Grant Frost and Al Boomer show the

don’t always wear white.

new North Vancouver City firefighting gear. They've returned to traditional black outfits.

Evidence
revisited

From page 1.

Despite being
charged jointly,
Rashida and
Abdur had sepa-
rate trials.
Abdur’s appeal of
his murder con-

ion was dis-
missed in June.
He is serving a
life sentence and
is eligible for
parole after serv-
ing 10 years.

In overturn-
ing Rashida’s
conviction, Ryan
stated thar the
circumstantial
ease included a
pathologist’s tes-
timony thar
Naaz injuries could have been
administered by at least two
assailants. Court testimony indicat-
ed that Rashida would tell “almost
anyone with whom she came into

sh had “low

not good

enough for F ida’s hy
ity towards Naazish continued even
when Na reported missi
and after her body was discov
according to the appeal de
Ryan noted that a jury may view
Rashica’s statements as a murder
motive,

A fingerprint examiner testified
the fingerprint could have been teft
on the garbage bag before the mur-
der when Rashida reached rthe
kitchen sink and touched i

Ryan said a conversation Faisal
overheard between his parents
about doing something “about that
girl” the night before the murder
should have been ignored by the
jury because West Vancouver Police
had “nudged” Faisal to say the date
of the conversation had occurred
closer to his wite’s murder .
his original statement that the con-
versation occurred wo to three
weeks before Naazish's death.

RASHIDA