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Awarded $40K for being hit by a dog
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BY PAUL J. HENDERSON phenderson@chilliwacktimes.com
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man knocked off his bike on a rural Chilliwack road by an offleash Doberman was awarded nearly $40,000 by the BC Supreme Court. Joseph Leon Gallant was riding along Chilliwack Central Road on Jan. 1, 2012 when a dog, Rocky, ran from a property owned by Peter and Trudy Slootweg and knocked him to the ground. The 61-year-old broke his collarbone and two ribs in the incident. In a decision rendered in BC Supreme Court in Chilliwack on Aug. EB IRST 19, and posted online on Aug. 28, First reported on Justice Brian Joyce chilliwacktimes.com awarded Gallant $25,000 in non-pecuniary damages, $13,068 in lost earning capacity and $1,050 for damages to his bike. Gallant sued the Slootwegs for damages on two legal bases: negligence as well as the doctrine of “scienter.” Scienter is a long-standing legal doctrine that places liability on the owner of an animal who attacks as long as the owner has a dog with a propensity to cause harm and the owner is aware of that propensity. The defendants argued that scienter shouldn’t apply, because Rocky was not “of a vicious or dangerous nature,” { See LAWSUIT page A4 }
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Hansford crosses the finish line (above) ahead of the Greek mile champion in Gaza in 1941.
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94-year-old Cecil Hansford has dodged death countless times, is the last surviving member of his Second World War squadron and claims to have run a sub-four-minute mile before Bannister BY PAUL J. HENDERSON phenderson@chilliwacktimes.com
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Unlikely history rewrite It was May 6, 1954 on a wet, blustery day when the 25-year-old Bannister, then an English medical student, ran four times around a track at Oxford University in 3 minutes, 59.4 seconds. { See LAST MAN, page A26 } 6621141
ixty years after British runner Roger Bannister was the first to break the four-minute barrier in the mile, a Chilliwack man has a bone to pick with history. “That pissed me off a little because that’s not true,” Cecil Hansford said during a conversation in his mobile home in Chilliwack. You see, the 94-year-old Hansford is diminutive in stature but he elicits one huge claim: He ran a sub-
four-minute-mile right around the time Bannister hit puberty. “I broke the four-minute mile in 1942, two seconds faster than Roger Bannister.”
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