Dean Kory - A Study in Free Living

[Burnaby49]

Yet another doleful Dean anniversary. It was just over four years ago that Dean left this last optimistic message on his Face Book page.

Dean Kory
March 15, 2020 •
You all have not been seeing posts from me for over a year because I had made the choice to stay offline through the tent city job... I'll be starting my blog on the whole sorted affair soon in order to expose the corrupt and educate the blind public. I love and have missed you all. Time to do a li'l catchin up! ...and CLEAN HOUSE!

Since then, silence. The consensus amongst we Quatloos followers of Dean's antics was that he’d died, an early anonymous victim of the first wave of covid. No additional information has come to light in the four years since to change that opinion. His Face Book followers seem to have abandoned him. His 56th birthday, assuming he’s still alive, was last week on March 10th. Normally, before his disappearance, he’d get dozens of Face Book birthday greetings but that dropped quickly after 2020. This year he had only one follower plaintively wishing him happy birthday.

As I do every year I made a check through Facebook, Google, Twitter, and other social media but not a trace. Robert Menard called me a sick twisted sociopath for my obsessive reporting on Dean’s life of abject failure and yet, four years after his disappearance, I’m one of the very few of his followers left who’s willing to make at least a minimal effort to determine if he’s still alive. However even I couldn't be bothered to get this done on the actual anniversary of his last posting. I started it but then I had to take my grandson out for sushi. When I got home other things, trivial, but more important than Dean, distracted me and I just remembered a few minutes ago.

Actually that's about what Dean deserves as a remembrance.

[JamesVincent]

A fitting eulogy.

[Burnaby49]

An even more fitting eulogy is that this is the last year I'm going to go to the very minimal effort of posting his anniversary. He's not worth remembering. I may check his Face Book page from time to time in case he ever shows up to resume his totally ineffectual raging against everything he encountered. I at least found that entertaining.

[Burnaby49]

Don't know if I've ever included this court decision in the Kory thread,

R. v. Kory, 2009 BCCA 146 (CanLII)
https://canlii.ca/t/236r6

I just found it today by chance while doing one of my periodic checks to see if Dean is still with us. The case is in respect to his brother Darcy and is an appeal by the Crown from Darcy receiving a two year sentence for breaking and entering. Crown thought that wasn't enough jail time for a lifelong criminal like Darcy. The British Columbia Court of Appeal agreed and added another year on the sentence. As the appeal court noted;

[4] The appellant is 40 years of age. He has a lengthy record going back to his youth in 1984 in Oshawa, Ontario. The record contains convictions for 36 offences, nine of those committed while he was a young offender. The sentencing judge noted that the record includes eight break and entering and 14 thefts and possession of stolen property offences. The rest are made up of mischief, assault, a weapons offence, drinking driving and a failure to comply with court orders. Mr. Kory had been sentenced in March of 2008 to imprisonment for three months for breaking and entering, possession of house breaking instruments and possession of stolen property. He had been out of prison for a period of nine weeks before he committed the offence with which we are dealing.

Impressive how incompetent he is given his extensive experience. Going back to the scene of the crime to retrieve a stashed television with the police hanging around?

[JamesVincent]

He got picked up in '08 for a B&E and only got 3 months? With a history? Just wow. And then only 2 years for a subsequent offense?

[Burnaby49]

Happens all the time in Canada. Crimes like shoplifting, B&E's on cars, the smaller stuff, are essentially risk free for the criminals involved. Get arrested, have a court hearing, released until trial on the 12th of never, and immediately back to shoplifting. It turns into an endless cycle.

Darcy is as good an example as any. A criminal since his teen years with a vast number of convictions. Nonetheless, while the court of appeal recognized that the trial judge's sentence was obviously way to lenient given his very extensive record, it only increased his jail time by a year when they could have increased it by two years. Even that three year sentence is a sham. I doubt he served half of it before being granted early release.

[eric]

Impressive how incompetent he is given his extensive experience. Going back to the scene of the crime to retrieve a stashed television with the police hanging around?

Anybody who has worked jobs like I have comes to the understanding that many criminals are just plain stupid.
Case #1: HR brings me a new guy, I give him the standard orientation, but he doesn't show up for his next shift. He stole a car to get to his job interview and left a copy of his resume on the passenger seat so after the stolen vehicle was spotted by the police in our parking lot it was an easy catch. Actually he was a good worker after he got out until his next car theft.
Case #2: Across the street from us was a factory that manufactured hot tubs. After they got off shift at 0100 hours four of my guys decided to steal one. Somehow they managed to tie it down to the roof of their small car and left in the night. Of course they were quickly stopped by the police, three ran off in the dark, abandoning the fruits of their labour, and the poor driver who couldn't get out because of all the ropes etc. they had used to tie down their ill gotten gains. I gave the ring leader of the group some words the next shift for abandoning their companion in crime so he literally tried to put a curse on me but that's another story....