Movies suggest that indoor parking garages are wild places inhabited by villains lurking villainously behind pillars and are home to high-speed car races featuring rubber-burning three-lane skids.
But are Montreal's indoor parking garages safe for humans?
(You really spent all day writing all that lead? - Chimples)
Here's a partial list of some of the disasters that have occurred in Montreal-area parking garages.
There are surely many more and we shall add them when we come across them.
15 April 1995 Annie Brissette, a 29-year-old schoolteacher drove her whit sedan into the Maritime condos on Levesque W. in Chomedey, Laval at 8:45 p.m when a man grabbed her purse. She resisted. He shot her and she was pronounced dead six hours later in hospital. She offered a description of her assailant before perishing. A massive campaign to find the killer, which included a $10,000 reward from Sun Youth and 25,000 posters, put up around just about everywhere, yielded no results.
21 March 1980 at 6 pm. Lawyer Ralph Ordower, 44, left his office at the real estate giant Ivanhoe on the 5th floor of Alexis Nihon Plaza to get to his car in the basement lot. His killer knifed him after slashing his tires. The only hypothesis was that a real estate guy named Arthur Ross from Texas might have wanted him killed to prevent him from testifying at a complicated fraud trial but that was just hearsay from an informant.
28 Aug. 1981 Kenneth Lee, 18, of Point St. Charles, was surprised by a police officer as he and a couple of other teens were trying to steal a car from the garage at 200 de Gaspe in Nuns Island. Lee, who was using pliers to get the wires crossed right, raised his hands and a police officer mistook his pliers for a gun and shot him dead. The officer was cleared of wrongdoing.
But are Montreal's indoor parking garages safe for humans?
(You really spent all day writing all that lead? - Chimples)
Here's a partial list of some of the disasters that have occurred in Montreal-area parking garages.
There are surely many more and we shall add them when we come across them.
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| Brisette |
15 April 1995 Annie Brissette, a 29-year-old schoolteacher drove her whit sedan into the Maritime condos on Levesque W. in Chomedey, Laval at 8:45 p.m when a man grabbed her purse. She resisted. He shot her and she was pronounced dead six hours later in hospital. She offered a description of her assailant before perishing. A massive campaign to find the killer, which included a $10,000 reward from Sun Youth and 25,000 posters, put up around just about everywhere, yielded no results.
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| Ordower |
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| Lee's body packed in van |
28 Aug. 1981 Kenneth Lee, 18, of Point St. Charles, was surprised by a police officer as he and a couple of other teens were trying to steal a car from the garage at 200 de Gaspe in Nuns Island. Lee, who was using pliers to get the wires crossed right, raised his hands and a police officer mistook his pliers for a gun and shot him dead. The officer was cleared of wrongdoing.