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North Van kitten survives pellet gun attack James Weldon
jweldon@nsnews.com
A North Vancouver man is warning pet owners and parents to take care around Halloween after his family’s four-month-old kitten was shot with a pellet. Ian Steward got a frantic call at work from his 11-year-old daughter on Monday saying their cat, Bailey, had been injured. Steward returned to his house on East 10th Street to find the animal limping. A closer examination revealed a lead pellet lodged just behind its left front leg. The man popped the object out and rushed Bailey to a veterinarian, who operated on the cat and kept it overnight. The animal is back home now and recovering well, albeit sporting a humiliating plastic cone. But the close call rattled the family, said Steward. It was particularly upsetting for Steward’s daughter, who recently lost another cat to a coyote. “She thought this was the end of her second cat,” he said. “She was very shaken up. She just didn’t understand why somebody would want to shoot See Firing page 3
NEWS photo Cindy Goodman
IAN Steward examines the wound in his daughter’s young cat, Bailey, caused by a pellet fired from a pellet gun in the Grand Boulevard area of North Vancouver. Steward and the RCMP are reminding pet owners to keep pets safe at Halloween.
Botox defence beats drink charge Jane Seyd
jseyd@nsnews.com
A woman in West Vancouver has had her charge of refusing to give a breath sample tossed out in court after telling a judge she couldn’t blow into the roadside screening device because her face was frozen from Botox injections. Paddi Anne Moore, 51, used the unusual Botox defence while representing herself during a trial on a charge of refusing to give a breath sample in North Vancouver provincial court. Moore was pulled over in West Vancouver shortly after midnight on April 24 and asked to blow into the roadside-screening device. Moore was given four chances to blow into the breathalyzer,
Judge agrees WV woman’s frozen face meant she couldn’t blow
but the equipment failed to register a sample every time. Moore argued in court she couldn’t purse her lips properly around the roadside device because of Botox injections she had received 10 days earlier in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico, where she lives for part of the year. Cpl. Fred Harding of the West Vancouver police said Moore first came to his attention because she was driving 50 kilometres per hour on a stretch of highway where the speed limit is 90 km/h. He said he pulled her over after Moore drove through a commercial brake check area on the side of the highway and almost collided
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with two other vehicles when she pulled out. After Moore acknowledged drinking alcohol that night, Harding asked her to blow into the roadside breathalyzer device. But “she made no attempt to blow,” he said. In a letter handed up to the judge in court, Moore’s Mexican doctor wrote that “the physical effects of Botox injections to the upper lip and mouth area is that the patient is unable to purse (her) lips or whistle.” The doctor wrote it is not uncommon for someone who has had the injections to be unable “to wrap their lips around a straw or wide circumference such as a breathalyzer blow apparatus” for up to six months. Botox injections — which prevent wrinkles by partially paralyzing facial muscles — are a common plastic surgery procedure. See Police page 5
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