Saint John Journal

Published Friday May 9th, 2008

Gasoline
Drivers finally catch a break

After six weeks of gasoline price increases totalling nearly 15 cents per litre, New Brunswick drivers finally caught a bit of break this week despite record world prices for crude oil. At its weekly setting at midnight Wednesday, the province's Energy and Utilities Board dropped the maximum price of litre of regular unleaded self-serve gas by 1.7 cents to 125.9 cents. Most local stations charge about two cents less. Self-serve diesel fell by just four-tenths of a cent per litre this week to a maximum of $1.41. Homeowners also got some relief, with furnace oil dropping 2.1 cents to a maximum of 123.4 cents per litre, and propane by seven-tenths of a cent to 118.2 cents.

Grenade

Police rule out any charges

City police have ruled out charges against a former Saint John resident who shut down the city's airport for more than 45 minutes after a grenade was found in his luggage Monday evening. The authentic Second World War grenade had been disabled and there was no explosive powder inside. The man, who is in his 20s, was on his way to Calgary on a WestJet plane. Sgt, Pat Bonner of the Saint John Police Force said the Criminal Code of Canada doesn't provide any grounds to charge the man. However, he said, federal charges remain a possibility.

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"The Criminal Code of Canada doesn't provide any grounds to charge the man."

Isn't 'Causing a Disturbance' a criminal code offence? The guy knew he had a grenade in his luggage, he knew the airport would scan his luggage, he also had to have known that Security would be taking some sort of action. So, basically he knew he would be the cause of disturbing the normal operation of the airport. Any reasonable thinking person would have known that and the Criminal Code of Canada bases itself on what reasonable people would do.

The guy should have notified the airport of his intentions and asked if it was possible to bring the grenade on board. Sounds reasonable to me.