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SCOTT TAYLOR tore up
his one foot by two foat
cardboard cheque Monday,
after receiving a suspended
sentence on a disputed $25-
traffic ticket.

By TIMOTHY RENSHAW
News Reporter

The 29-year-old Liquor
Distribution Branch employee
originally raised the ire of West
Vancouver provincial court per-
sonnel when he insisted on paying
for the ticket with a cheque written
on a 15-pound brick.

After that was refused, he
returned to the West Vancouver
courthouse with the certified card-
board cheque. But again, his pay-
ment was refused.

So, Taylor went to court.

On March 24, Justice of the
Peace Larry Taylor handed Taylor
a suspended sentence after hearing
details of the case.

Taylor was orginally given a
ticket by West Vancouver Police
Dec. 2, 1985 for having
unauthorized lighting on his 1966
Mustang.

In a Dec. 13 News story
chronicling the incident, Taylor
complained that police had been
unreasonable in demanding he
remove the lights on the roadside,
instead of allowing him to drive
home and remove them.

He therefore decided to indulge
in a bit of his own unreasonable
behavior, and pay with the brick
cheque, he said.

Taylor said Tuesday, “If the
police had been more understan-
ding, no problem. If court staff
had taken my cheque, which was a
legal means of payment, nothing
further would have happened. The
whole thing could have been.
avoided if she (superintendent of
court administration for West
Vancouver Mary Epps) hadn't
been so stubborn.’’

Court services administrator for
North and West Vancouver
Dorothy Penman said Wednesday
her staff in West Vancouver, like
all court staff, had to face a lot of
people who were unhappy with
them for one reason or another.

Said Taylor, ‘‘I tried to pay the
fine and they refused. Now they
get nothing.’’

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