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- By CHRIS LLOYD

“RCMP officers were kept under a constant
deluge of beer bottles and:an officer-was punched

“ in. the face at a Friday night North Vaneduver
_ Party which developed intoa pitchéd battle:“

had‘arrested 23 people. {

The police involvement
began when a lone patrol
officer, Corporal Michael
Cairns, chanced to drive

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EVERYTHING ISN'T EXACTLY WHAT JT SEEMS, especially on the
morning of April 1 -- when Rick Kinar (above) discovered this bashed up
jalopy sitting literally on his doorstep at 259 East 17th in North Van. The

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past the house at 342 East
4th. Street where the party
was going on.

“He just happened to drive
past and his car was
barraged by beer bottles,”
the spokesman said. “He
walked up to the door and
was punched in the face.”

. Fhe corporal is said to
have asked the group to
disperse but the partygoers

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ignored him as he waited for
them to doso.

At the same time as he had
arrived there, the RCMP
received various calls from
neighbors complaining
about the commotion from
the party and more patrol
officers were sent there.

But the beer bottle
throwing went on for up to
an hour after the initial

incident and the RCMP had
to fight their way into the
party, according to the
spokesman.

Of the 23 people arrested,
19 were charged with ob-
structing the police and one
of these was further charged
with assaulting a_ police
officer. The remaining four
were arrested for being
drunk in a public place.

wreck had been transported there overnight by prankster bent on

making sure that Rick celebrated All Fools Day in a smashing style.
(Noel Wright photo)

IM BRITISH
PROPERTIES

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West Vancouver saw
one of its biggest
residential breakins
ever, last weekend,
when- silverware . and
other items with
an estimated total value
of $94,000 were stolen
from a. British
Properties home.

The theft grimly un-
derlines the acute problem
of breakins of West Van-
couver homes which have
become one of the greatest
problem areas facing
the municipality's police.

Of particular concern to
the police is the fact that
breakins in West Van are
larger at the same time as
they are becoming more
frequent.

But the theft from the
home in the upper British
Properties over the weekend
was by far the biggest in the
current rash of breakins
which began some months
ago.

Silverware stolen from the

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