Bicycle Thief Got Injured Badly

Robbing a mountain bicycle ended pretty badly for the thief. Read on: 

 

Stealing a mountain bike ended very badly for Rene Brian Jimmy last summer.
On Aug. 14, he stole the bike from outside a store in Saskatoon while the bike’s owner went in to buy cigarettes. The next day, the bike’s owner was at the Saskatoon Exhibition and saw Jimmy, 28, riding the bike. He recognized Jimmy and reported the incident to police.

Later that day on Aug. 15, Jimmy was riding a bike under the Broadway Bridge when he fell off while going down a steep embankment under the southeast corner of the bridge. He suffered serious, life-threatening injuries that put him in a coma for just under two weeks.

Since then, Jimmy’s focus has been on getting well, said defence lawyer Linda Wood in Saskatoon provincial court on Monday. He has a long criminal record and his bail supervisor said that since the injury, he’s been much more compliant in meeting his terms of release.

Jimmy pleaded guilty to charges related to the mountain bike theft and another theft of bicycles from a compound on Fifth Avenue North in June 2011. He was sentenced by Judge Marty Irwin to nine months probation.

THIEF CAN’T READ STOLEN BOOK

A man who stole a Latin book he couldn’t read was caught by police on the doorstep of the house he stole it from, the Christmas wrapping paper he’d taken off the book still lying on the sidewalk.

Cody Jason Terrence Dreaver, 29, wanted to get some money by shovelling people’s sidewalks on Dec. 11. He was drunk and wanted to be able to go and visit his daughter out of town, Saskatoon provincial court heard on Monday.

He went door to door, and at one house, found the present between the screen door and the main door. A neighbour saw him take the package and she called police. When they arrived, they caught him redhanded, book in hand, said Crown prosecutor Janet McIvor.

Dreaver pleaded guilty Monday to the theft and was sentenced to three days time served and fined a total of $500, including both the fine and victim surcharge.

BLANK CHEQUE TURNS UP

A man who found a blank cheque in a pile of papers says he hung onto it for a while until he really needed the money.

When Danen Scott Nahnepowisk, struggling from a drug addiction, ultimately filled in the cheque, he made it out to himself for $400.

That made it easy for police to find out who had had possession of the cheque, which a mom had originally signed and left blank for her son to pay for a gym membership. When the gym wouldn’t take the cheque, the son paid by debit card and put the blank cheque in his wallet, promptly forgetting about it. He later lost his wallet at a bar.

The mom later noticed the strange cheque, cashed in July, when she was balancing her books.

Nahnepowisk, 41, knew the cheque wasn’t his and takes full responsibility for the fraud, said Wood. His first court appearance was Jan. 11 and he pleaded guilty as early as possible on Monday, she said. He’s currently seeking treatment for his drug addiction.

Nahnepowisk was fined $300 for the fraud and was ordered to pay $400 restitution to the victim.

SHOPLIFTING SCHEME BACKFIRES

Joseph Ivan Richard Pambrun wanted desperately to visit his mom, who lives out of town, at Christmas time.

A friend of a friend offered to arrange for a ride for Pambrun, 29, if he would “boost” some items from the Sears store downtown and he reluctantly agreed, said defence lawyer Wood. The new friend pointed out the items he wanted Pambrun to steal and Pambrun grabbed them.

A security officer watching surveillance video on Dec. 11 saw Pambrun take five articles of winter clothing totalling $849.95, said Crown prosecutor McIvor on Monday. Other officers followed him out of the store and when they challenged him, he dropped the clothes and ran.

The officers followed him to a house on Avenue D South, where they subdued him and called police.

Pambrun was sentenced Monday to six months probation.

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KFC Chicken Not Healthy Food Chooice

There are fewer places in central Ohio to buy KFC chicken, but the company said the four store closings since November aren’t part of a trend.

Spokesman Rick Maynard said the four were owned by the company and were shut for “business reasons.”
The stores were at 1471 S. High St., 1110 W. 5th Ave., 611 E. Livingston Ave. and 1556 W. Broad St.
All the employees at the four locations “were offered jobs at other KFC locations and most of them took advantage of that opportunity,” Maynard said.

There are 48 remaining KFCs in the company’s Columbus market, which extends to neighboring counties and beyond.
“Columbus is still a very important market for our company and franchisees,” Maynard said, adding that no other closings are planned.

There are about 4,700 KFC restaurants in the United States and 17,300 worldwide.

“I think this says we’re still in some tough economic times,” said Scott Heimlich, president of the Central Ohio Restaurant Association and owner of Barcelona Restaurant & Bar. “We’re still feeling some of the impact of the downturn in the economy, and I’m sure that had an impact on the closings.”

The option for employees to transfer to other KFC locations in the Columbus area was important.

“Being in the restaurant industry, any time you hear of a closing, the first thing you think of are the people who are out of a job,” Heimlich said.

“You hope they have an option to transfer to another store because it’s still not easy to find a job.”

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Fire breaks out at BP refinery in Washington state – KCPQ

Will gasoline prices rise to $5 or $6 USD per gallon by this Summer? Will these prices force people to think about ‘staycation’ instead of vacation?

A fire broke out Friday at the BP Cherry Point Refinery, Washington state’s largest oil refinery, sending plumes of black smoke into the air. There were no reports of injuries.

The fire broke out at about 2:30 p.m., and firefighters battled the blaze for about 90 minutes until they got it extinguished. The fire was in a tower on the south side.

The refinery is located about seven miles south of Blaine and eight miles northwest of Ferndale, and just a few miles from the Canadian border, on the Strait of Georgia. More than 700 full-time employees work in the refinery, which is laid out over roughly a square mile, according to BP officials.

BP said after the fire was put out that the refinery would remain open.

The plant was constructed in 1971 with an original capacity of about 100,000 barrels. It currently processes more than 225,000 barrles of petroleum (crude oil) per day, with 90 percent becoming gasoline, diesel or jet fuel.

Most of Cherry Point’s crude oil is from the Alaska North Slope.

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