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  • A Plane Stolen in Maine Falls on Montérégie Plain(flown across border without clearance)

    09/28/2003 4:47:09 PM PDT · by fight_truth_decay · 51 replies · 838+ views
    Montreal.canada.com ^ | Sunday » September 28 » 2003 | ANGUS LOTEN/ AP
    'I don't know who taught him to fly, but they didn't tell him to check the gas'. A 25-year-old man is facing several charges after his plane, reported stolen from an airfield in Maine, crashed into a Montérégie field yesterday morning. The man, a Livingston, Me., resident, suffered only minor injuries in the accident. He had been flying a Cessna without a pilot's licence or flight training, said Constable Manon Gaignard of the Sûreté du Québec. For unknown reasons, the man left a private airport, near Turner, Me., about 6:30 a.m., running out of gas three hours later above St....
  • Wayne Gretzky's statue defaced by war protestors

    03/27/2003 3:22:27 PM PST · by EveningStar · 13 replies · 318+ views
    The Orange County Register ^ | March 27, 2003 | Steve Eddy
    <p>A statue of Wayne Gretzky in Edmonton, Alberta, was adorned with a sign that read "U$ Lackey" in protest of the hockey star's recent comments supporting President George W. Bush in the war against Iraq.</p> <p>Employees of Skyreach Centre quickly removed the cardboard sign Tuesday from the statue at the entrance to the home arena of one of Gretzky's former teams, the Edmonton Oilers.</p>