drinking drivers THE following people appeared in North Vancouver court in connection with drink- ing and driving related offences: . Robert Matthew Cameron, 45, of North Vancouver, was fined $1,500 and had his driver's licence suspended for 12 monrhs ~- after he flcaded guilty ro impaired driving @eoe Kenneth Lindsay Macintosh, .29,: of New ’ Westminster, was fined $800 and had his driver’s licence suspended . for, 12. months after he pleaded guilty to hav- “ing-a blood, alcohol level greater than .0: eo ee Blair David Henderson, °28, of North Vancouver, was fined $750 and had his dri- ver’s licence suspended for 12 months after he pleaded _ guilty to having a blood aico- i level greater than .08. news ai th I shit AFTER a Schneiders Hot Dog promotion machine — (the Blaster, intended to shoot free wieners into the stands ar Toronto's SkyDome during baseball games) went awry in April, pulverizing the franks and spraying fragments on fans, a vegetarian Blue Jays" fan told the National Post newspa- per she would sue if she got spritzed. “What if { had my mouth open and a piece of hot dog fanded in my mouth?” 222 In May, the Quebec Superior Court and Quebec's Administrative Tribunal ruled thar Alain Desbiens had the right to have his tattoo removed al government expense in that the sattoo 4 @ weird uld have br adversely affects his psycholog- ical well-being. The estimated cost_of erasing the blue and gray caricature of a death's head above his right bicep was estimated at $2,000 to $3,000. 3232 Felicia Vitale, 41, told reporters in February that she would sue the New York Police Department for wrong- ly arresting her after she walked away from a sting oper- ation at Staten Island Mall car- tying a planted purse contain- ing $2. She admitted that the purse did not belong to her but denied she intended to steal it and poinied out that she suffers from obsessive- compulsive disorder and thus Friday, August 18, 2000 — North Shore News - 11 must go through a list of tasks in rigid order every day and that she simply had many other things to do before she got around to returning the purse. 2902 In Their Own Words: Hubert Penrod Jr., on why the May promotion he had sched- uled for his Huge Hooter Haven strip club in Nashville had failed to attract men who had come to town for the Billy Graham Crusade that week- end: “I know all the pom stars, but 1 don’t exactly keep up with preachers. Hell, I thought Billy Graham was some singer or something. lt never entered my mind that (it was) some preacher (whe) was filling up ught my miit the football stadium.” Qg23a Least Competent Criminals: Inman, S.C., police arrested Donald W. Melton, 29, in July and charged him with robbing a CCB Bank. He was casily tracked down on his getaway because he had failed to ask for a bag at the bank to carry the money away in and thus was left to stuff it all into his pants and socks. The result was that enough of the curren- ey came loose during his nun that residents alony his escape route called police every few minutes to report thac another bili had been spotted, and within 40 minutes of the rob- bery. Melton was in handcuffs. CARPENTER ANTS & Insects SIGHS OF CARPENTER ANT IMFESTATION... ® Sawdust from wall/ceiling © Gockling sound in wall/ceiling Dr. Mites Price 1O%. OFF: orate ring Avs: 30/00 & CORRECTION NOTICE The coupon that was published in the North Shore News on Wednesday, August 16, 2000 should read as “Present this coupon to the cashier for ONE FREE CANTALOUPE with any purchase. (Limit ONE cantaloupe per family, while quantities last)”, and NOT as advertised. 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