" TMR, I don't believe you exist."

  Garner Bornstein, a Montrealer seen pictured at the left is clearly an awesome guy. It's pretty freekeen self-evident by that photo. But he's also known to motor his putt-putt in a way that you're not supposed to. But he had a big time oopos moment in front of a judge a while back.
   Garner was clocked doing 96 in a 50 kmh zone on a service road near in the Town of Mount Royal in April 2008.
   His lawyer Marie-Hélène Lamoureux contested the fine because it was written under the name Town of Mount Royal. However the Town of Mount Royal had been reduced to a borough of Montreal after being politely forced to merge with the City of Montreal on January 1, 2002.
   Ergo they argued, the Town of Mount Royal had no right to give out tickets because it wasn't a town at all, but a borough of Montreal.
   But someone forgot to tell Garner's lawyer that TMR - along with several other municipalities (Westmount, St. Anne's, Cote St. Luc, etc - had ceded from the one-island one city based on a vote of its citizens.
   TMR rebecame a separate municipality in January 2006. So their contention that TMR does not exist was not only wrong, but it had already been wrong for a 15 1/2 month period before he was ticketed. Oops! I gotta read the paper more often! So on June 30 of this year a judge ruled that Garner still has to pony up for the ticket.