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(en)Direct Action with Veggies
From
Dale Pfeiffer <Pfeif324@concentric.net>
Date
Wed, 13 May 1998 17:36:33 -0400
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By way of Luther Gaylord.
May 13, 1998
Filed at 1:11 p.m. EDT
Broccoli-Trucker Arrested
By The Associated Press
MONTREAL (AP) -- An angry Canadian trucker
took his cargo of broccoli hostage this week in an
impromptu five-day, cross-continent job action
that ended in his arrest in Iowa.
Gilles Lacombe, 38, was taken into custody at a
truck stop Monday after his fed-up employer,
Trans-West of Lachine, Quebec, reported the
18-wheeler -- carrying 1,400 cases of broccoli -- stolen
by its driver.
Lacombe had ditched his co-driver at a Wyoming
rest stop and unplugged his satellite tracking system,
hijacking the Quebec-bound broccoli in a protest
against what he called unsafe working conditions.
``What I was asking for personally wasn't a big deal,''
he told a Montreal newspaper in an interview from his
jail cell. ``The important thing was to improve the
conditions for the other drivers.''
Prosecutors refused to press charges, and Lacombe
was freed from jail Tuesday to return to a hero's
welcome in Quebec.
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