A man who wrote a letter complaining of beggars in front of a Montreal liquor store has been ordered to pay $8,000.
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Robert Delisle got frustrated with a beggar outside a local booze shop and sent a missive to the SAQ outlet on June 10, 2010 suggesting some rather unusual ways of dealing with the situation.
His note was inspired by chronic panhandler Francine Beaumont, 63, who had the habit of sitting in front of the store asking for money.
The sender complained that the woman, who suffers from a degenerative bone disease, had made it difficult for him to lock his bicycle and if he didn't make his purchase at the branch at 450 Henri Bourassa West, he'd be forced to ride his bike all the way to Laval.
Beaumont said that she begs twice a week for four hours a shot, is always polite and makes $15 to $30 each session.
The branch manager showed the woman the over-the-top hyperbolic missive, which was written in a street slang French.
In the email Delisle lists ways of deal with the beggar problem in Ahuntsic. He suggests burning them with napalm, dumping them into a garbage truck, shooting them in the neck, parachuting them into James Bay and using them meat like in the film Soylen Green.
The branch manager Jean Lataille showed the woman the note and she then brought Delisle to the Human Rights Commission who sued Belisle for $20,000.
The letter is hard to translate but includes such denunciations of the woman as a "robineuse", "Ms. Loulou" and calls her ""200 pounds of well concentrated and enriched BS trans fat" with "no apparent IQ."
The defendant, who earns $32,000 as an early retiree, said in his defence, said that most of the letter was opposing beggars in general, not this woman and he was no threat to anybody. He noted that he didn't possess weapons or napalm. He complained that the charges were a form of harassment.
In a decision dated June 28 and posted today on the internet, Judge Jean-Paul Braun ordered him to pay $7,500 to the woman for moral damages and $500 to her for punitive damages.
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His note was inspired by chronic panhandler Francine Beaumont, 63, who had the habit of sitting in front of the store asking for money.
The sender complained that the woman, who suffers from a degenerative bone disease, had made it difficult for him to lock his bicycle and if he didn't make his purchase at the branch at 450 Henri Bourassa West, he'd be forced to ride his bike all the way to Laval.
Beaumont said that she begs twice a week for four hours a shot, is always polite and makes $15 to $30 each session.
The branch manager showed the woman the over-the-top hyperbolic missive, which was written in a street slang French.
In the email Delisle lists ways of deal with the beggar problem in Ahuntsic. He suggests burning them with napalm, dumping them into a garbage truck, shooting them in the neck, parachuting them into James Bay and using them meat like in the film Soylen Green.
The branch manager Jean Lataille showed the woman the note and she then brought Delisle to the Human Rights Commission who sued Belisle for $20,000.
The letter is hard to translate but includes such denunciations of the woman as a "robineuse", "Ms. Loulou" and calls her ""200 pounds of well concentrated and enriched BS trans fat" with "no apparent IQ."
The defendant, who earns $32,000 as an early retiree, said in his defence, said that most of the letter was opposing beggars in general, not this woman and he was no threat to anybody. He noted that he didn't possess weapons or napalm. He complained that the charges were a form of harassment.
In a decision dated June 28 and posted today on the internet, Judge Jean-Paul Braun ordered him to pay $7,500 to the woman for moral damages and $500 to her for punitive damages.