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Shot fired in robbery attempt
Parents pay for student’s school prank BY KARL YU THE NEWS BULLETIN
A B.C. supreme court judge has ordered a teenager and his parents to pay more than $48,000 in damages for a prank he played at Wellington Secondary School in 2012. According to Judge Shelley Fitzpatrick’s ruling, Carson Dean, who was 14 at the time of the incident, attached a friend’s padlock to a sprinkler head on Jan. 17, 2012, despite knowing sprinkler heads would discharge water if activated. There was significant water damage, as other sprinklers also started up. The Nanaimo school district and the student’s parents, Cheryl and Kevin Dean, agreed damages amounted to about $48,630. As per a section in the B.C. School Act dealing with liability for damage to property, the school district claimed the student was negligent for damage caused by intentional interference of the sprinkler head. It sought recovery of damages. The Deans argued the school act doesn’t impose liability unless there was intent to cause damage, which they say wasn’t Carson’s intention. Ultimately, Fitzpatrick said the incident, “... was clearly the result of a young boy misbehaving and thinking that the only grief to come of it would be to [the friend] and perhaps the janitor in removing the padlock. Obviously, more dire consequences followed.” See ‘LAWSUIT’ /5
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SUSPECTS MAKE off with wine but no cash from liquor store at Terminal Park mall. BY CHRIS BUSH THE NEWS BULLETIN
Three men armed with a shotgun and pepper spray attempted to rob the B.C. Liquor Store in Terminal Park Mall on the weekend. The suspects entered the store shortly before 10:30 p.m. Saturday and one of the suspects fired a round from a shotgun into the store’s ceiling. As they were leaving, one of the suspects discharged two bursts of bear spray at one of the store’s female employees. The suspects fled without any cash, but possibly got away with several bottles of wine. “It appears that the cash drawer they took from the till was empty,” said Const. Gary O’Brien, Nanaimo RCMP spokesman. “They didn’t realize that, of course. They may have taken one or two bottles of wine.” A police service dog team tracked the suspects’ trail to Poplar Street where the track ended. No customers were in the store and no one was injured, but employees were shaken up. The employee who was pepper sprayed did not need medical help. All suspects had their faces covered with bandanas, two of them wore black hoodies and one wore a red hoodie under a black nylon jacket. O’Brien said police do not believe Saturday’s robbery is related to an armed robbery of the Stock Exchangers pawn store on Jan. 2. Anyone with information can call Nanaimo RCMP at 250-754-2345 or contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or online at www. nanaimocrimestoppers.com.
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Frisbee focus
Skye Beddington delivers his disc into the basket at Bowen Park on Saturday. Despite cloudy skies, Beddington and the rest of his foursome – George White, Matt MacDonald and Jeff Bosdet – got in a round of disc golf.
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