THE HARVEY BORLEY HISTORY TOUR
Borley, born in
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Harriett Beecher Stowe asked by the President of the
Abraham Lincoln, upon her introduction to the President he exclaimed to Miss Stowe,
“SO YOU ARE THE LITTLE LADY, THE ONE THAT STARTED THIS
GREAT WAR”.
Harvey Borley (Stowe) is also
related to United States Senator Davy Crockett of the famed battle of the
Margaret Stowe meets and marries
Albert Tomas Borley coincides with the
very famous English haunted house the Borley Rectories and is indirectly related
to the English Royal Family , Albert Borley adopts Harvey as his son.
That through the fifties and
sixties (Stowe) Borley becomes involved with sports, playing hockey, baseball, lacrosse
and refereeing lacrosse leagues
Borley’s early years in music
Forced to take piano lessons
from the famed Ms. Ida Brooks who
slapped his knuckles and a slap to the back of the head, to make sure he was
performing the right poster to play the classic properly,
While attending high school
Borley forms a local band that, featured an Elvis, Bee Gees type singer David (Tweedy bird) Thwaites, and
guitarist Bill Philips the band
enjoyed playing for the schools audiences.
The urge to develop a touring
band Borley joins with a B.C. interior band called Strange Movies, Borley
meeting with Barry Samuels of Axis booking agency a young pimply faced kid named
Bryan came in and made a bold statement that he could sing better than Barry‘s artist Nick
Gilder who has a number one billboard hit called Hot child in the city and the band called Sweeney Todd needs him,
after a long rant, he left his phone
number and stormed off., Borley tells Samuels that he should check the kid out
anyone with that much balls could be a good front man That pimply faced ended
up been International star Bryan Adams.
Borley’s band the Strange
Movies performed at the first Vancouver Easter B-inn. At that show Mr. Tommy Chong of the famed recording
act Cheech and Chong joins with
Borley in rolling an enormous four foot by one foot thick joint that is lit and pass to the crowd of thousands
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The famed commercial actor
and radio disjockey Mr. Bill Reiter,
Reiter well known for his role as the famous Sash Quash in the Kokenee beer
commercial
Writes about Borley and the
Strange Movies, a raving report that coincides with Europe’s leading free radio
Luxemburg and
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In 1965 Borley meets with businessman Mr. Bill Jiry, Bill expressed an interest in putting together a
professional style lacrosse team and enters it into the junior “A league”.
That league rejected that
proposal outright, so Jiry set his site on the junior B league; the Athletic
club consisted of many of
Well known body builder,
trainer Mr. Ben Hoskins and Borley
start developing the players into game shape. The Athletics win all their games
and qualify to play in the finals in
A Canada wide train strike changes
the travel plans and the team is forced to take Greyhound bus lines, boredom
was the main concern so Borley shows the players the proper way to pack beer so
their was no breakage. Borley purchases 48 cases of beer. Off the team goes to
Harvey has a sister living in
Winnipeg and uses her old ford to take some of the players to town , on the way
back to the hotel after one too many pops the driving became a team effort with
the captain Ray Bennie steering Mel Hood using the brakes and Bill McMurchy managing the gas all with
Borley giving directions,
Arriving back at the hotel
Harvey curates a timely diversion by calling backup coach Benson on the house phone
to talk about the weather; lineup changes etc, while the players sneak into
their rooms.
The next day Borley
refurbished the player’s beer stock.
The entire player knew the
code word, if the knocker said H B.
(Hide the beer.)
The Athletics laughed and
fumbled through the two games despite a secret weapon by the
A few of the fellow management,
deemed that Borley held to much control over the players and arrange a ticket
home, the team rebelled against the prospect of losing Borley, but Harvey been
of vast resources and savvy pointed out certain indiscressions by one exertive
and any thought of Borley’s exit , were quickly rescinded.
Ray Bennie the
Athletics team captain considered the next super star been compared to the fall
of famed Mr. Jack Bondia , a stick
handling wizard in the sport of lacrosse, haled Borley as the greatest savor of
boredom in travel, keeping the player’s
loose on that slow five day bus ride east.
The Athletics play the
Cornwell Wildcat losing the first game before shaking off the travel lag and
winning the remaining games to win the Canadian Lacrosse Championship.
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Borley
eventually become a builder of a new
senior lacrosse league. The league that he formed to take place of the A
league that turned professional with teams from Canada and the United States
That league continues to enjoy success to this day by the fans and the players.
Borley receives a stern
lecture from a close personal friend Harvey
Tuura
Who tells Harvey that if he
wants to succeed in business , he have to learn to get to the goal, the hard way
is to use your head to break through the wall or learn to climb over and get to the goal. A
lesson that remains with Borley, to this day.
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Borley is introduced to Mr. Entertainment Danny Kaye and his concert production company Concerts West;
Bill Graham of the Fillmore
East and West out of
Borley for stage and concert
tours. Borley attends Woodstock festival in
As Borley tells it a most enjoyable festival even staged
in mud.
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England’s Vanilla
Fudge
started a tour with the number one song in North America called You Keep Me Hanging On ands took a unknown band featuring the incredible
guitarist Jimmy Page of the famed
English group Yard Birds, Page new group called Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin performs above and beyond the term
backup band and with the incredible vocals of Robert
Plant , steal every show , after one such show in Seattle, Washington the
group was credited with having a little groupie named STAR ( her real name
Jodie ) that went to the road crews room
at the Edgewater Inn with the headliner Vanilla
Fudge band member Mark Stein ,
Borley and a couple of the bands roadies
, Star a great looking rich girl a real red headed skank , she was playing the
easy target, When Mark fishing out of the his hotels window trying to catch a
mud shark, happened to catch a red
snapper and he tell Star that the Red snapper , should meet the real red snapper. Whereas Stein proceeds to stick the Snapper up her
snapper, causing Star to go ballistic ,
the poor girl was getting off with muiltie orgasms When Borley left she was still screaming give
me more..
Led Zeppelin got blamed for a
Vanilla Fudge deed,
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Mr. Tom Ross of Associated
Booking asks Borley to stand in as the promoter for a show featuring Ike and Turner with guests The Shantells Tina tells the magazine Melody Maker, ‘that man did one hell of a job for us he saved our
asses from a very bad situation”
Jim Optner agent for KISS and
Ira Blacker of Premier Talent of
Tells the music magazine The Rolling Stone”that they
were totally amazed that this Canadian from
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Pink Floyd was
astonished to find dancers that turned strippers on top of their huge PA system boxes that were on the
wings of their stage, the girls from the Zanzibar club danced and stripped
through their show, the band leader Dave
Gilmore still talks about such a new spectacular visual effect added by
this off the wall promoter Borley from Vancouver
.
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Accident Productions promotes
one such act as the
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In June of 1975 the famed Alice Cooper
who real name is Vincent
Furnier turned to Borley after the
famed chicken insendance at the Toronto Peace festival featuring John Lennon,
Yoko Ono; and the Doors , someone in the audience threw a chicken on stage
while Alice was performing,
“Alice Cooper kills chicken and drank its blood.”
Borley tells Alice that move
was going to put him over the top promotion wise , Alice still feeling bad,
contacted Frank Zappa to ask what to
do about this bad press ,Frank tells Alice don’t do any thing, what great
publicity
Another Alice Cooper instances was in
Alice was
being chased around the stage by pixie show girls, Alice climbed up on a large
prop, A toy box and the pixies push off, causing Alice and the box to topple
backwards throwing Alice off the stage and ten feet to the ground onto his head
and breaking a number of ribs, Alice taken to Burnaby hospital and is patched
up by Harvey’s sister in law Dr. Lynn
Potter and back to perform he went much to the delight of twenty thousand
fans.
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Borley meets Marc Bolan of the band T-REX in
Fast forward ten years
That flashing Star starts to raise with a moan, firstly a low sound than the moans grow
much louder and the star starts to rise, the hydraulics are reaching overload
range lifting the star to the standing position Marc slanders up to the mike, to Harvey’s amazement Marc is A Fat Shit weighing over tree hundred and
fifty pounds, wadding to centre stage and starts singing Bang a Gong. The show
stunk. The tour stunk,
Borley is told by his wife
that Marc had met with the local coke dealer before the first show and bought
five thousand dollars worth for his habit.
T-REX flies from
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Rolling Stones tour of the early 70th was compromised by a large number of counterfeited
tickets from the same printer that affected each North American venue, Borley
helping the facility and security deal with thousands of fans holding these
phony tickets and through out the tour and helps keeps the disgruntled fans
happy.
Borley watches with
frustration as the show in
The City Police chased the
out of control fans over parked and moving cars,
Outside a very disturbing and
hectic night for all concerned. While inside the fans enjoyed Mick Jaegers and
the Stones performance.
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The following week Borley has
a first ever major rock concert event at the New Westminster arena featuring the Irish rocker Mr. Rory Gallagher and England’s Status Quo with the city fathers showing a real concern that the
fiasco of the Stones show in Vancouver could happen in their city,
Mr. Ken Winslate the City Administrator asks Borley how he would
protect against such potential problem, he is amazed that Harvey tells him that
he was ready for any problem and goes further and proclaims the show will play
out without a hitch, sure enough not a single problem was reported at the sold
out show.
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Harvey Borley
for the next twenty years works with the cream of the Rock and country acts. from
British acts like the Who, ELO, Lead
Zeppelin, Bad Finger and Mark Bolan’s, T-rex to Europe’s Kraftwerk with their song called Auto Bon Bon, Yes, Fats Domino, John Lennon, Ravi Shankard with George Harrision
and Jeff Lynne’s Electric Light Orchestra on to North Americas best Elvis Priestly
, Buddy Holley, Credence Clearwater revival,
Journey, Kiss and Tina Turner to Australia’s Olivia Newton John, to country big act as Freddy Fender, June Carter and
Johnny Cash, and Charlie Pride, Borley’s company enjoyed huge success.
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Mr. Don Gallagher brother and manager of Rory Gallagher contacts Borley from Ireland and asks Harvey if he
could help secure a new recording contract with a major recording company in
the United States
Don only give Borley one stipulation
that the new company could not ask for a top forty radio friendly single material,
as Rory and the band played their music mostly with song sometimes reaching
well over five minutes or more it was how Rory played and as the mood fit with
each song,.
Chrysalis Records, Mr. Steve Smith, that company
receives Borley with open arms Chrysalis signed Rory Gallagher. To a world wide
record deal.
Rory remains up till his
premature death, Borley’s most enjoyable artist and he has been sorely missed.
As a friend and an artist.
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Borley has a little farm in Surrey, B.C.
The little farm that bordered
on the Surrey and
Rick Burline, Gary Gerrard and Pat Allen looked
after the farm while Borley is on tour, about a year before, the farm was broken into while
Rick Burline decides to go
back home to Edmonton Alberta, to see his parents, he was
gone about two weeks, when he arrived back at the farm he was very distant and
his eyes were as wide as saucers, he complained about fire trucks following him,
(up in the sky) Borley well finding his behavior different and some what disturbing,
has to leave on tour with the English Band Wishbone
Ash, Climax Blues Band.
Later the next week,
The place is surrounded by
the RCMP and the neighboring Delta Police Force; the police ask Borley’s
business for coming into the property and
They go on and tell him that
Mr. Berline had gone into Borley’s bedroom and taken a 30/30 Winchester riffle ,
pointed the weapon at the roommate Gary Gerard demanding Borley keys to the old
Plymouth (up on blocks,)
Berline had jumped into the
car and started it only to find that he was going no where.
Berline than jumped the fence
and pointed the riffle through the neighbors
window, demanding the neighbor give him his truck keys, the man so scared ran
and jumped out of the back window of the house through black berry bushes, seriously
cutting and scratching himself in his escape. Leaving his wife to handle the
matter, she just handed Rick the keys and he drove away. Firing the gun in the air,
yakking and yelling keep back or I’ll shoot.
The lead officer goes on to
ask if Borley knew where Mr. Berline might be heading, Borley has no idea.
Shortly after the officer is
called back to his cruiser and after awhile, he come back to Borley and tells
him that Beirline had been taken into custody at the Burnaby RCMP station, where he was shooting the windows out of the
police station, with the cleaning staff
diving for cover
Berline facing a fully pissed
off police officers all packing full assault riffles surrounded Berline and
demanded that he throws down the weapon , Whereas he tells the on coming police
that he was just here to pickup Borley’s color
TV. It was later found out that, Berline
had taken horse tranqlizers
Borley hires a top lawyer
named Tom Fisher that get Rick off
with the understanding that he goes home to live with his parents and not come
back to British Columbia.
To this day, Rick Berline is still walking
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Robert Geldof
the organizer of the famed Live Aid,
raising over a hundred million pounds for relief for the devastated people of
Robert write that ‘ Borley’s Accident productions was one of
the most well run production company, Harvey is straight forth and caring music
promoters , that always gives the paying
audience more value and a fair and honest show for their dollar as well
always treating all the performers’ with great respect.
At the earliest Kiss show Robert asked Borley for the
real names of the band whereas he tells Robert all there names that are Jewish
so Robert want to know what to hell this Jewish band is using German Swazi
signs on their album cover, he asks Borley if he could make comment in the Georgia
Straight new paper that he writes for.
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The Loudest Rock Band was the
English Band Status Quo; Borley has
them playing at the
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Fire destroys neighbors boarding home
Late on the night of August
11th 1972 Harvey Borley president of Accident
Productions had just returned from a concert tour with the English rocker the Electric
light orchestra , was awaken by his mother
Margaret , that the next door house was on fire, and to go get everyone out of
the house
The lower half of the
boarding home is fully engulfed, Borley kicks in the back door and races
through the house waking up the home owner Mrs. Carol Millot and daughter Dawn
on the main floor and gets them out, told that other people were up stairs in
the house,
Leading a woman and her child
down to safety, told that Erin a young boy was still up on the second floor of
the burning house, Borley races back in and finds the young boy Erin , who is suffering from smoke
inhalation and carries him to the waiting firemen
Borley receives first aid for
smoke inhalations and after a brief recuperation takes the devastated fire victims
home for the night.
Fire spokesman for the City
of New Westminster tells the local new paper the Columbian
writes .That the people in that household were very fortunate that Borley had
acted as quickly as he did; his actions averted a very major tragedy
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Borley business ventures
Harvey Borley joins with the
famed Victorian Cross winner Mr. Ernest (Smokey) Smith, that award presented to Mr. Smith as the highest
military accolade given to a British Common wealth member ,A serviceman, Smith in total
disregard for his own safety and by his action save lives of fellow solders. Ernest Smith develops a machine gun type weapon that
is considered lighter and more reliable than any other automatic weapon, called
the Chipmunk , along with a Canadian Senator, and business
man, Borley finds, that the
government of the day is resultant to issue the needed permits that would for
the funding and developing of such a weapons that would be added to the worlds
military arsenical.
Borley and Smith decide to
leave the project to a better understanding future government.
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Borley meet Mr. Jean Autry
Borley is invited to visits
the old movie ranch of Jean Autry’s called the Bar S ranch at Newhall
The ranch, the home of
hundreds of old western movie shot on location with stars of the forties to the
seventies, Featuring the likes of 35 movies done by John Wayne, The Rifleman with its star Chuck Connors and Johnny Crawford, The Lone Ranger with Canadian native
Indian Mr. Jay Silverheels to Annie Oakley staring Ms Gail Davis and on through
to the singing cowboy Mr. Jean Autry.
Harvey’s purpose is to recreate the Melody ranch back to its glory days and also to build a Jean Autry museum showing the history
of the ranch and all the other old western stars.
Mr. Autry tells Harvey how
the rolling hill on the ranch was used in almost every movie, with the bad guys
all wearing black hats, the cameras shooting them galloping up the trail till
they go out of sight, then the director would yell change, and the same cowboys
came back around with the star leading star and the white hats in hot pursuit.
Borley and his associate Mr. Ronald Brown spend considerable time
filming and doing interviews with some of the old cowboys and the residences of
Newhall
After a number of months
evaluating the existing buildings and out building and equipment, Mr.Autry
tells
Jean Autry on December 33
1991 sends Borley a letter confirming his desire to have his museum at Anaheim
Stadiums to show his beloved fan, both the
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Borley’s and Tina Turner
Ike Turner beats up Tina, physical hurting her causing such damage, putting Tina
in the hospital, the act is not able to perform and begs off the Borley’s Canadian
dates.
Borley contacts his friend Tom Ross of Associated Booking of Los
Angles Tina Turner’s agent, and arranges to meet with Tina Turner, at that meeting
Colonel Tom Parker, the manager of Elvis Presley
and Huey Meaux the
famed manager of the Big Bopper who
is killed on that terrible plane that crash also claimed the life of legendary Buddy Holly. Parkers has Borley working with him on Elvis live show and
asks Harvey, to help out with Meaux to promote an ex marine named Baldemar
Huerta who is using the name Freddy Fender,
Borley watches with total
disbelieve as Heuy Meaux steals
Freddy Fender blind, Freddy who is his own worst enemy is always drunk and
asking Huey for cash and signing blank receipts. Freddy goes on to record a platinum record called
Wasted
Days and Wasted Nights. On one of
Borley’s tours with Freddy in the eastern provinces of
Borley has a radio station in
the Maritimes help promote the tour, only to find out that the station had
doubled booked two shows on the same day, One hundred miles apart.
Border with the RCMP cars to
take over the escort. To the next town.
After the first show Freddy
road manager Sam Herro ,Freddy and
Borley jump into the limo and the city police escort take off sirens and
lights flashing up the wrong direction on the freeway , The police traveling about one hundred yards ahead
driving over 100 miles per hour, force the on coming traffic to move over, but because of the distance between the lead
police car and the limousine the traffic starts to come back onto their
rightful path only to face the on coming limo, Harvey with tears rolling down
his face from laughter, Freddy had shit himself and was
screaming and praying in Spanish to the mother saint.
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Through this Maritimes tour, The Queen
Elizabeth of
The second show sold out,
Borley finds out that the radio station promotion team had hired the local band
from their local Army and Navy veterans club, that the band never played a
professional date, through that show had Freddy yelling cords while singing
each song, a terrible sounding band, but with Freddy Fender singing and playing
guitar he pulls it off.
In the
Freddy Fender road manager Sam Hero receives a call
from manager Huey Meaux to pull the plug on all Borley remaining dates, he is
told to find any reason just leave.
Freddy got offers to play
large out door concert shows with audiences over to hundred and fifty thousand
live paying fans the promoter was offering a up front payment of one hundred
thousand dollars and percentage, a far cry from Harvey’s ten thousand
guarantee and sixty percentage of the
gate
Borley is left holding
payments for an aircraft that he leased plus the arena rental and advertising
costs for each venue plus
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Borley Promoted ex Santana guitarist Neal Schon and Gregg
Rollie of the
Joe Cocker
with mad dogs and Englishmen.
Borley finds the road crew at
the end of their show in Toronto opening left over bottles of champagne and
other expensive spirits bought as per the bands rider contract, when asked why
the waste, the road crew states its bought for us so we can pour it out if we
want.
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Borley has a close friend
that thirty years ago had the desire to open a professional recording studio, that
man blinky ( the nick name given to him for his always placing
his hands before his eyes and waving his fingers in a flickering motion like
he’s won ) Mr. Leonard Osanic,
is one incredible guitarist and as Harvey tells it, this man just does not know
his own talent, Borley goes on to say, its such a shame, that he was not living in England in the early
1970 with some of those dedicated musicians, that with his style and hard work,
Leonard would have became a household names in rock and roll world.
Osanic goes
on to build that studio into Fiasco Brother Recording Studios out of
To this day Borley continues
to use Osanic playing on a number of his recording projects.
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The English band Genesis featuring two of the greatest
writer and vocalist to come into the rock field
both playing in this one of a kind unique and original band Mr. Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins backed by the incredible
player Steve Hackett, Mike Rutherford
and Tony Banks become one of the
seventies best live show attraction.
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Borley feeling disillusioned with the music business after Jean
Simmons of the rock group Kiss, a
group that Borley started working to build into a touring band, a funny storey
happened in the early days of touring was by station wagon with the rental
truck following behind with the equipment, Harvey become tired late at night and pulls
over to the side of the highway to catch a couple of hours of sleep, every one asleep when a piercing
sound of a very loud train whistle startles awakes every one ,when Borley looks
back in the rearview mirror every member
of Kiss is steely eyes wide as the train roars by missing the cars and
truck by about ten feet.
Borley promoted the act into
a twenty plus thousand seating headliner, only to have Simmons make inappropriate
suggestions that he could use his tongue on Borley’s wife Marilyn, a good looking lady who was setting up the refreshments
for the band and crew members to enjoy,
Borley’s wife was so upset
that
Kiss’s manager
calls Harvey to offer a complete North America tour telling of all the hard
word Borley had done, was paying off and the band was starting to break every
where in the country, with their top ten hit on Bill Board charts, Borley again
tells the manager that he was no interested and wishes the band good luck but
good bye. After the fact the estimated throws away loss by
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The Borley’s drinking a toast
of Brandy; decide to call this special bundle of joy Brandy Lee
Dallas Borley
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Another group that Borley has
developed into a headliner was, Nazareth from Scotland, Harvey promotions using good support
acts to builds the bands drawing power, a Canadian tour of sold out shows,
leaves Victoria, British Columbia the last of the sold out performances, the
night before Nazareth had twenty thousand fans dancing and singing along with
the band, Nazareth pulls a no brainier and chouses to stay in Vancouver to
attend another sold-out show featuring Deep Purple,
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On the next tour Borley again
has
The squad arrives and the
band is paid their contracted monies and escorts from the box office staff and
Borley out of the building.
Nazareth goes back to
Scotland and writes a song about Borley called “Vancouver Shake Down” and Borley starts his own recording company
called ASTRO RECORDS and writes and
releases his rebuttal song called”
Messin with the Bull Gets the Horn”.
To this day the group
Borley’s side of the story had
been documented by the press of the day, including the famous columnist writer
of the
The band Nazareth try to
start a rumor that Borley could not pay the bands fees but were soon faced with
the question that every date Borley had contracted with Nazareth a fifty
percent deposit was forwarded six month before the tour started, that the band
quickly re tracted that story.
This once mighty band has
been renegade to the status of a bar
band having trouble filling three hundred people, a far cry from Harvey’s twenty to thirty
thousand people per show.
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Joe Walsh of
the famed band the James Gang leaves that act and starts the Joe Walsh and Barnstorm band, along with Joe Vitale, Rocke Grace
and Kenny Passarelli, Borley takes the band on a North American tour and one
funny time after the each show the normal course is to go to the areas best restaurant
and enjoy a great meal,
In this case in
While enjoying lobster, calamine
and other fine cuisine Joe Walsh fires
a tomato shrimp at Rocke and misses
him but strikes the elderly lady wearing her best flock and furs. The lady very
upset starts screaming at Joe, Who simply tells her he was trying to hit that
guy pointing at Rocke
And would she be so good as
to pickup the shrimp and wing it at his intended target,
To Borley dismay the lady
fires it at Rocke and a food war
breaks out the whole restaurant goes
crazy with the staff all looking in dismay.
After it settled down and
everyone was laughing, the manager presented Borley a bill for two thousand
dollars for broken glasses and cleanup.
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Another strange event by one
of Borley’s acts was the band called Bad Finger from
Bad Finger singer Peter Ham a strong look alike to Sir Paul McCartney complains through
out the north America tour to each of their new recording company, Warner Brother repersintive that he
wanted the money own to him from the recording company, and that his manager Stan Polley had robbed the bands Bank
account.
Borley explains to the Ham
and the band that fifty percent of the total agreed to performance fee has been
pre paid to their American Booking Agency, with the other fifty percent paid on
installments to their road manager at the start of each city performance as per
the contract.
Borley goes on to tell them
that the normal coarse of any recording contract is quartiley or annually full disclosure
of sales (units) sold and the payment to the artist his percentage.
But in this case he refused
to take any of each local company repersintive explanation and walked away to
pout, on the last date in
Warner Brother’s record repressive Mark
Wilson a close friend of Borley’s gives him the heads up regarding the Peter Ham complaints The day of the show
Wilson’s is been verbally beating by the artist back stage, going on about the accounting process, when
Borley rescuers the A&R man, On
excusing himself Mr. Wilson tell the
Artist that he would look into the matter for him, he leaves happy and goes on
stage a performs a very good show.
The next day the band fly’s
home. Borley is astonished to learn that upon the Pete Ham arrival home on April 24th
1975 he had gone into his garage and hangs himself.
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Some of the best acts Borley have promoted
The first surprise was the
group called Manfred Mann earth band , Manfred
a old sixty’s act, the band came on stage and laughed and played old songs from
Do way a Ditty to the new songs and
interacted with the audience, great act , great show.
The second was the late Rory Gallagher and his band, Rory had
the magic, he could play guitar with the best and had the ability to dance and
move will playing.
A close third was the energy
of Tina Turner the lady can sing and
move all through her show set.
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The English Group called Electric
Light Orchestra a band that consisted
of old time rocker Mr. Jeff Lynne,
drummer Bev Beven and keyboard
player Richard Tandy and Bassist Kelly Groucutt to the best of classical
music violinist Mr. Mic Kaminski of
the London Phil Harmonicas and Colin
Walker, Mike Edwards, belly bouncing
their cello’s, all around the stage,
as the band played their reminiscing of the great classical piece called Roll over Beethoven, that song was played
on the hit parade of the Worlds rock stations. In Vancouver the band receive
word that they had just achieved a gold record in Canada, Harvey steps on the
stage between songs to invite the bands record company executives to come on the
stage, The record company presents to the band a gold record, for record sales
in Canada, the band receives a thunderous applauses from their sold out fans.
Jeff Lynne
leaves ELO and joins George Harrison
in the new band called the Traveling
Wilburys; playing with such guest players as the late great Roy Orbinson, the band remained together till the unfornaunt death
of
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Borley memory of sick act.
Borley has a step son named David Trott. born with fetal alcohol syndrome take a young
girl Jessica Russell, (at the fathers
suggestion,) tells a drug induced kid by Russell’s own drugs, David a just
released convict to take his daughter for a ride to school, Mr. Russell knowing
that the van was a stolen vehicle as he had taken in trade the vans stereo
system in exchange for a cap of heroin and a flap of speed,
David hears about Jessica’s
life with her drug dealing dad and how she’s been abused by her dad’s drugs
buddies. David decides her life should be spared from this life of misery and
he kill’s her.
The most annoying event to
this needless tragedy was that Trott tells the releasing Judge not to let him
out , he is delusional and still on medication called goof juice administered
by the prison staff “he was dangerous and going to kill someone”, that Judge said no room to keep him and sprung him
free.
Harvey is astonished to have
a large amount of people call him wanting to have him act as a federal responsive for Feadual Alcohol Syndrome causes Harvey turns them down but , soon
understands the mental understanding of a person so effected when his own step
daughter another person born with FAS contacts her real father and meets his
brother, a married man with children and a prison guard by trade , He is caught
performing a indecent act by one of Harvey’s friends , who pulls Tina out of
his car and lays a thumping on the Trott brother all the while Tina claims she
is in love, as a 14 year old. With her uncle.
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Little Richard one
of the biggest recording acts of the 60 and 70th,
Little Richard had over twenty
top ten hits is booked at a friends of Harvey’s Mr. Danny Baccita night club in
Vancouver called Oil Can Harry’s
Richard picks up two young
boys and takes them back to his room at a
The day he’s to check out,
the maid enters to clean up the room and finds the baggies in the bed forming
the outline of where Little Richards slept.
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One festival that should have been recorded
The Festival from the Gorge out side of Seattle, Washington State featuring bands
like Vanilla Fudge, Cretans Clearwater
Revival, Ike and Tina Turner Review, The Birds, The Who , and the interdiction of the best visual. Recording act
Led Zeppelin on to Canadian band called
the Guess Who, reiterating Randy Bachman,
Borley driving back to Canada
after the show in his classic Austin Healy mark III falls asleep with the
drummer from England’s Big Three, Robbie
Kent in the back and Mr. Neil Douglas,
classical guitar player, Neil slaps Borley awake as he is heading into the wall
of the freeway driving over a hundred miles per hour, Borley reacts in a nick
of time, Douglas takes over driving, all the while Harvey and Robbie snored all
the way back to Canada
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Another funny instance was.
In the seventies their were the standard
performance contracts alone with a special contract
called a rider, This called for the bands special considerations such as food,
appetizers and drinks and if the band was a big act needing special goods, as
health care products doctors, girls or drugs.
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In the case of the Allman Bro. Band the special request was coke, Borley would not
propagate as supplier but knew who was dealing and introduced each other and
walked away. When Borley walked by the dressing room he sees Greg Altman with a huge pile of cocaine
on the table
cutting it up with a razor
blade he scoops up a large helping and has a big snort as he finished a second
snort he sits up in the chair takes a deep breath his eyes roll around and
falls face first into the pile, a huge cloud plumes around his head, six thousand
dollars worth blew all around the room.
When Greg picked up his head
his face and hair was covered he just smiled and said gooooood shit
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Borley got caught in a bad situation
Borley has an on going
running battle with Justice Hogarth
of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, the same Justice ruled in Chambers on
behave of Borley, next thing Borley is summoned back into Chambers two weeks
later for the very same application, before the same Justice, Whereas Hogarth
Jumps out of his bench and yells at Borley that, “he would have Borley shot”
Borley snickers at the Justice and tells him in front of a large number of Lawyers
awaiting their application to be heard. “Borley tell the Judge that they could meet,
down on Columbia Street at high noon, with their six guns strapped to their side,
but he was sure the local Police dept would arrest both and throw away the keys”,
the
gallery has a BIG LAUGH, all the while Hogarth fumes.
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At Borley’s next appearance
before the crooked Justice Hogarth he does a about face and says that he did
not make such a ruling (the Court Reporter records clearly show that the ruling
been made and recorded) Hogarth jumps out of his seat and pounding down the
gravel, rules for the Plaintiff.
Borley complains that the
Judge has already ruled for him in this matter and that he is a crooked Judge
like Roy Bean and must resign, quit, vacate the bench,
Borley proclaims that the
Judge, is not worthy of been a Judge for a girl’s marble tournament. Hogarth storms off his bench, Borley, with wife Charlotte and Captain
Foster, vacates the Court.
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Borley become owner of a
number of business in the Maple Ridge, British Columbia area, works with Mr. Norman Schultz in developing a machine
gun type apprentices that will fire tree seedling from a helicopter. Borley and
Schultz work very close with Dr. Walters
of the
The air powered gun reaches
the capability of been able to re seed from the top of
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Borley wife Charlotte meets Mr.
Tony Varranio of
All was needed was a few bank
cards with the pin numbers, Borley questions the motive and receives assurances
with a Bank of Montreal contact.
Borley feeling confidant that
every thing was on the up and up, agrees to help.
The next thing Borley’s Secretary
Marie receives a call from her daughter that her bank has a short fall, all
been caused by depositing of supposedly a false deposit,
Borley contacts the bank
contact and within two days her problem of the overdraft was rectified and a
new card was forwarded without any request been made by the client. Next thing
Borley knows is that he is charged by the local Maple Ridge RCMP.
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Borley who owns a coastal
freighter called the
Over the next short period
Borley is found guilty and sentenced to six to nine month in jail.
Within one week The RCMP dive
team and the B.C. underwater dive society arrives at Borley’s vessel and dive
under and inspected the GB Church. The following week the vassal is removed and
work commences to sink her and shortly after Borley is released. And told to go
home.
Borley calls Justice Hogarth a crook, who instigated the ship removal and created this
personal vendetta, that started against Borley’s stepfather who accuses Hogarth the lawyer of dipping into the
Internationals woodworker funds for his person use ,.back in the fifties.
Borley takes this matter all
the way through the
The Supreme Court of
Borley’s argument before the
Supreme Court of Canada is that a person
in authority especially one as high as a Justice of the Supreme Court of
British Columbia , must act above and beyond of personal bias and to stop any
perceived chance of miscarriage of justice.
And the Court
must insure that anyone in authority never misuse or mistreat his or hers
position of authority.
Borley goes on to express that
this issue has very deep meaning to all Canadians and asks that this appellation
be heard by this full Court. As again the issue here is it has importance to
all Canadians.
The Court Rules that this issue has no importance to
Canadians and refuses to have the full Court hear this matter, the Supreme
Court of
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Borley appearing back in British Columbia Supreme
Court Chambers before Mr. Justice Donald E McTaggart who, after hearing Borley’s application, asks him to
stay till the morning break, says he want to talk to Borley.
The Chamber audience and
Borley realize that this is not a normal Court practice.
Borley is asked by the
Justice Mc Taggart on behave of the Chief Justices,
would he accept a position as a licensed member of the Bar? In the
Borley is
set back but thanks the Justice for considering him in such high esteem, Borley
goes on and tells the Judge that he doesn’t have the education to compete with
the likes of the lawyer present in this chambers hearing,
The Justice tells Borley that
the records have shown the he has represented himself in a high standard over
the years and that having been prepared documents and appeared before the highest Court in
The Justice goes on to offer
Borley a professor from the University
of British Columbia to guide him through any legalities , Borley asks if
that means he was to go along with the normal?, “that he could not argue his point till he
made the Court understood his point.”
Justice McTaggart tells
Borley that be would have to abide to the code of all fellow lawyers.
Borley tells the Judge thanks
but no thanks and says good bye, The Gallery of lawyer’s relielizes
that they were witnessing the system trying to force Borley to buckle under, and applaud him as he leaves Chambers.
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Borley at Justice’s Hogarth urging,
agrees to move out of the District of Pitt Meadows and he
Borley apple’s for a river usage
permit from City Hall, who proclaims that they want his new business in the
Municipality. A tug
boat SALVAGE BUSINESS IS THE RIGHT VENTURE FOR THIS Property
The wrath of Hogarth follows Borley
The District of Langley sends
a bylaw officer Don Slavens to give Borley the push, Slavens a want- a- be type
cop, a person that would sneak around late at night and report traffic offences
to the local RCMP, a real pain in the ass type of guy
One day the same bylaw
officer sneaks into a house to check if the homeowner has built a room over the
carport only to come across two small children asleep,
The District receives a
complaint about Slaven conduct about his break and enters.
Shortly after another female friend
of Borley has the misfortune experience of having Slavens harassment, one day a
friend of hers is having coffee with her and she is astonishment to looks out
the front window and sees the bylaw officer sneaking around, her friend slides
out the back door and views a baseball bat lying by the back door. That fellow
surprises Slaven with a full Mickey Mantle across the face, encrebitality the
lady had no more trouble with the District.
Later Don Slaven’s is fired and replaced by another wan-a- be named Bill
Story who picks up the vendetta against Borley
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Othello Enterprises Inc purchased the
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Borley fillies a Supreme
Court of British Columbia against the realtor, Government of Canada, The
District of Langley and CN Rail for breach of contract loss of land and other
points of law.
Borley is sent a letter from
CN Rail advising that CN Rail was a good corporate citizen and was going to
corporate with the District of Langley.
Because of the heavy laden
rolling stock the property has vibrated three quarter of the land away.
The District has a small park
called Mariner park in the town of Fort Langley, they park land has also was
been vibrated away , The District asks that CN Rail fix there land loss problem and CN Rail brings many rail cars of
rip rap rock and fixes the lost land of the park
Borley speaks to the
West Coast head of Transport Canada Mr.
Ivan Mann who tells him to forward a letter to the Canadian Transportation
Agency an agency that looks after all commercial transport and investigate and
rules on every matter that is presented to them.
Borley forwards a letter that sets out the issue and
his demand are
A.
That a breach of
contract has occurred by CN Rail over a contract signed between the owner of
the property, Othello Enterprises Inc. and CN Rail with the Canadian Government
and Transport Canada giving a non removal road to river contract, plus a small
amount of cash for a 350foot strip of land for the second main line and the
bridge crossing West creek.
B.
That Borley’s
claim is for the property transferred over to the Government of Canada and CN
Rail is returned to Othello Enterprises Inc. along with Othello been able to
have a toll of .05 cents per tone on all the rolling stock since the breach of contract
Mr. Ivan Mann calls Borley and tells him that The Canadian Transportation
Agency had contacted him and told him that the agency did not know how the deal
with Borley and were going to bury their heads in sand and hope he goes away.
C.
The Canadian
Transportation Agency writes back and asks Borley to please add more
information.
D.
Othello
Enterprises Inc. allows the property to be purchased by a friend by way of a
Court sale; Gerald Tapp has agreement to return the property back to Borley for
five thousand dollars over the purchase price of Twenty thousand dollars. Mr.
Tapp becomes a total incubating idiot and starts making demands from the
District of Langley and the Canadian Transportation Agency even when he knew
that his name was been used to resolve the political position that Borley found
himself in
E.
Gerald Tapp goes
on a verbal rampage; demanding that the District pays him for some fence repair,
that he felt the township owed him, back thirty years ago.
F.
Borley is advised
much to his dismay, that Gerald and Robert Tapp have been, a river rat thief on
the coast for many years, stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars of log booms
from many of the coast lumber companies and
any thing not tied down such as brass metals, Off vassals that were in dry dock
and easy excisable by water
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Acts that con their promoters
Chuck Berry was
a master of deceit this ass hole had his scam down pat.
As a promoter you would
contact his booking agent and arrive at a price for the performance of Chuck
Berry, say for argument that fee was five thousand dollars for the night but
Chuck had in his rider contract that he needed a special Gibson amperfider for
him to play through on stage.
Or
Borley had two of his staff
escort Chuck Berry to the stage and they tell him if he did not honor his
contract his legs would be broken , sure enough Berry started playing, he even played a half hour extra, with the two
Borley crew member smiling at him through out his set.
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Borley today has reopened his
recording company after thirty year starting with his Astro records release of
the response to the Nazareth
song called Vancouver shakedown that song was their spin on the their
events of what happened by the band to miss going to their final sold out show
in Victoria, British Columbia.
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Borley on the Trott matter,
after been asked to help the Maple Ridge RCMP and after doing his duty in
working with their investigation and doing many television interviews projected
around the world.
Borley is in the back seat of
an undercover RCMP car taking him back to his houseboat at
Borley is hit by the cars emergency
lights in the rear window in the head and jams this thumb into the front seat,
Borley is taken to
Borley is diagnosed with a
right side hip injury, lower back mussel pull all caused by the upper body been
turned around and the legs facing forward.
Borley is offered the RCMP
medical called Blue Cross and after three weeks that was taken back and told
that any claim for damages had to be made through the Insurance Corp of B.C.
The RCMP apogize and tell him that the RCMP police cars carry no insurance.
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One of the upsetting times In Borley’s life
Was the death of his second
wife Charlotte?
When she did not take her
medication for neumatinic depression called lithium a natural salt that the
body needs.
Charlotte got herself in a
small fender scratch with the BMW and felt she was in trouble started drinking
and become and chose to drive home, she
Passed out and Left the
highway flying over sixty feet in the air sticking a under ground culvert,
The impact drove the motor
into her chest and the steering wheel through her head, the poor girl never
felt a thing. Mean while
He had no where to stop and
tie up.
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The issue with the CN Police
and the suggestion that Borley had explosives
To blow up the railway in
front of his lot 3,
The matter of explosives were
brought up by a neighbor Larry Stretch
who stops he pickup in front of Borley and some of his friends and climbs out
and asks Harvey if he was still pussy footing around CN Rail he goes on to tell
him that he should just blow up the tracks and let them know that they could
not get away with their bull shit.
Later that day the RCMP and
the CN Police raided Larry’s farm looking for
Borley explosives, none were
found.
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Through the 1980, Borley living in his log house on the
Allouette river at Maple Ridge B.C. purchased the local night club called Big
Daddy’s as well as lent numerous business working capital to operate their
business though a time of very high interest. Harvey ends up with these business
been offered to him in lu of non payment of their loans, some of the kinds of
business that he ended up owning were, two waterbed
company, two glass shops, accounting firm, Furniture Company, two
pet stores and two night
club.
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One funny story was the brass
door of the lawyer firm Davis,
Norquist, Schultz & Company ,
their building faced onto the corner of 224th and Dewdney trunk in
down town Maple Ridge B.C.
The firm taking advantage of
the down turn in the Canadian enormity, while other companies were under going
at this time choose not to pay their bill to the Borley’s glass company that
installing glass work to their new building and placing a large new brass door,
Borley talks to the sectary about which lawyer is in charge of the approval of
the construction work and who authorized the payment on completion.
The secretary gives the
impression that all the partners loved the work and someone would get back to
Borley regarding payment of the bill,
Brothers Glass
sends out the final bill to the law firm all with no check or any response,
The day of their official
opening Borley had enough run around, Borley instructs the head glazer to
attend the firm and remove the front brass door and to go drive around the next
town of
The distinguished guest start
to arrive including the Mayors of the local and adjacent communities when the
head lawyer Shultz realized that the doors off and where his door?
Schultz the solicitor for
Clifford Olsen,
Schultz calls
Harvey makes the full payment
demand for the all services and the brass door, he hangs up the phone next the
second highest partner Jim Norquest get on the phone and threatens Borley with thief,
whereas Harvey ever so calm points out the clause on the bottom of their bill
and hang up the phone, shortly after Davies the third partner calls back and
tells Harvey that he can come and pickup a check.
Harvey tells him that he
wants cash or a double certified check in the amount of fifteen thousand
dollars , before he would consider returning
the door and should that not be forth coming Borley tell Davis that he was
sending the glazers back to remove all the windows, to hell if guests were their or not , Davies
goes on to complain that he could not get that kind of cash after bank hours,
Harvey asks if he invited his banker to the opening and he told yes, Borley
tell to get the banker to open up the bank and hangs up.
The Banker
Schultz calls Borley and
invites him to the grand opening which
Enjoying the moment with a
number of the guest in attendance who is giving
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Another strange Maple Ridge story
was a thief steals one of Harvey’s Austin
Healey’s sports cars Valued at today price at $30.000.00
Harvey a avid collector of these
English Austin Healey sports cars collecting thirteen of these old vintage
models such as 104 roadster 106 roadsters 3000 series and the last off line
model a 1966 3000 mk 3, with a six
cylinder with tri-curb and electric
overdrive , the same model used to run in the La Mains road race’
Borley has a company called B.B Auto specialist in Maple Ridge.
B.C. that company had one of the best car painters in Ivan the Gun plus the top
body repairmen in the business.
This gut named Brown brought
in his Healey to be fixed and was told by the Gun that the his car was a wreck
and needed body parts would take months
to be found maybe in North America or have to be ordered from England.
That client did not realize
that Borley owned the business , gets
tired of waiting for the parts to be found, And take his car off the lot
Brown finds out that Borley
has lots of them .
Brown hires a car thief to go
down to
Harvey was sleeping in his
log house on acreage on the Allouette River and had his personal mechanic
working on his cars, when this fellow comes down and threatened the mechanic
for the keys to one of the Healey, the thief punches Carlos Madeira, all the commotion wakes Borley who witnesses the
robbery, charges down the stairs only to see the car flying up this long drive
way.
Harvey just see the car
turning on to the Dewdney Trunk Road and following sees the car turn north on
232, Harvey happens to run into a police crusher and yells that he following
his stolen car and that it was heading towards the Albion ferry just up river
from his own business , B.B. Auto, Borley takes after in hot pursuit sees the
Healey flying across the Lougheed Hwy and sees the car go past the ferry before
going out of sight.
By the time Harvey stop at a competitors
business and is astonished to see his luxury sports car just inside the main
doors , he is told that this guy jumped out of the car and tells the owner ,
just take any parts needed to fix the
car of Browns.
Borley goes berserk grabbing
a double headed fire axe out of the back of his pickup and starts towards this
guy Brown’s Car, When the full force of
the Royal Canadian Mounted Police shows up, twelve cruisers and surrounds Borley, The Corporal tells Harvey that they will take
over this matter and that he should put down the axe, a few of the officer think that they could
over power him , But Harvey holding the axe at the end of the handle suddenly
he drops the axe head down to a punching stance and lunges forward, the few police that were acting aggressive
realize that this guy could start punching
with that axe causing very heavy body damage.
The Corporal tells Borley
that they will take care of the problem and please put the axe down.
Borley looks at the officer
and tells his Mechanic Carlos to get into the car and take it home, is their
any problem with him doing that the RCMP Corporeal says he can go, no plates,
no insurance just go.
Harvey looks at his axe and
gives it a kiss and throws the axe, all the police surrounding Borley turn and
watch as the axe traveling about forty feet lands right in the back of his
pickup truck all the officers were amazed that the axe did not hit the side or
smash a window out, but land straight and true in the back of the
pickup.
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