THE CITIZEN, Prince George — Thursday, August 29,1985 — 23 A chance meeting at a stop light in Winnipeg reunited world travellers Patrice Ryder, second from left, and Hans Niedemdorfer. With them are wives Francoise Ryder and Ursula Niederndorfer. cp Laserphoto Globe trotters reunited WINNIPEG (CP) - A red traffic light led to a chance reunion Monday of two motorcyclists from different parts of the world who had not seen each other for 10 years. Patrice Ryder, 35, who lives in Australia, and Hans Niedemdorfer, 28, an Austrian who spent the last two years in Bermuda, became friends when they skied and worked together in the Austrian Alps 10 years ago. They were both passing through Winnipeg Monday while on round-the-world motorcycle trips with their wives when they stopped beside each other at the red light. “It’s just astonishing, you just can’t believe the world is really so small,” said Niederndorfer. Niagara daredevils fined NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. (CP) - Although Steven Trotter has received international attention for his trip over Niagara Falls in a barrel, he was so broke Wednesday he couldn’t immediately pay a $500 fine for performing the illegal stunt. Since conquering the falls Aug. 18, the 22-year-old resident of Barrington, R.I., has enjoyed instant fame and realized his dream of appearing on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. But when he appeared in provincial court, Trotter — who pleaded guilty — was ordered by Justice of the Peace Jack Irwin to pay the fine plus $3 in court costs within 24 hours or face a jail sentence. Trotter said he only had $270 U.S., but a representative of Starstruck Productions of Buffalo, N.Y. — the management company he recently signed with — eventually came forward with another $100 U.S. and Trotter returned to the courthouse Wednesday afternoon to pay his fine. “I’m broke,” Trotter told reporters just after the sentencing. “There are promises of endorsements coming and I hope to have money soon. “People think you make a killing (on this Escorts rejected BRANDON, Man. (CP) — Brandon city councillors don’t want escort services in their city. City council hurriedly passed an amendment Monday night to its licensing bylaw which virtually makes it impossible for anyone to establish an escort service. Mayor Ken Burgess said the amendment was rushed to council after an application was received from the Pink Panther Escort Service to set up shop in this western Manitoba city. The amendment, Tibetan burial rites off limits PEKING (Reuter) — Tibetian sky burials, in which corpses are dismembered and fed to waiting vultures, have been declared out of bounds to curious tourists, the New China News Agency said Wednesday. The agency said the Tibetian regional government banned unauthorized local and foreign visitors from the burial sites because their intrusion and picture-taking distressed families of the dead. Sky burial has been practiced for centuries in Tibet, where it is believed the vultures take the souls of the dead to paradise. In June, undertakers who cut up corpses on a rock outside the Tibetan capital of Lhasa stoned tourists from Hong Kong who had come to watch. modelled after Winnipeg’s escort service bylaw, requires the chief of police to issue a certificate of good character for managers of escort services and the escorts themselves. It also requires that each escort service keep a list of clients’ names and addresses and furnish it upon demand to any police officer or licence inspector. type of stunt). You make nothing. But I didn’t do this for the money. I did it for my portfolio.” His barrel — a massive contraption wrapped in inner tubes and equipped with air tanks and a two-way radio — remains in a police compound, to be picked up at his convenience. But Trotter was dogged Wednesday outside the courthouse by a tow truck operator demanding $105 for hauling it from the river to the compound. Trotter, who suffered a cut on his arm after becoming the seventh person to survive the 55-metre plunge over the falls, said he hopes to get a full-time job as a stuntman in California. It was a busy day for daredevils at the courthouse, with John David Munday, 48, of Hamilton, also fined $500 plus $3 court in costs after pleading guilty to attempting to try the stunt on July 28. Niagara Parks Police and Ontario Hydro officials thwarted Munday’s attempt by closing the Hydro control gates above the falls to limit the waterflow over the cataract. The barrel was trapped in a Hydro basin, one kilometre upriver from the falls, and he was towed ashore by police and rivermen. Munday also was placed on two years’ probation because he said he would try the feat again later this year or in 1986. If he is convicted of breaching his probation by trying another stunt, he could face a maximum fine of $1,000 and 90 days in jail. Corp. Fred Hollidge of Niagara Parks Police said legislation is in the works to increase the maximum fine of $500 to $2,500, authorize police to destroy any device used in a stunt and, if they had reasonable and probable grounds, to confiscate a device before a stunt was committed. Hollidge said amendments to the Niagara Parks Act will go to the Niagara Parks Commission soon and then to the Ontario legislature for final approval. Nine daredevils have tried to conquer the falls, with three dying in their attempts. In 1960, seven-year-old Roger Woodward, wearing only a life jacket, was accidentally swept over the falls and lived. Thty’t WITHIN REACH MAftO«A# NlfltlUVlO* MOOIMM Tram spec.t RUNNERS WORLD Jtockey PlcufeM.