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Canadian tries to dodge curfew by walking leashed man

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Agence France-Presse

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2021/reuters/01/12/canada.jpg"/><figcaption><em>Photo by Etienne Delorieux on Unsplash</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MONTREAL - Canadian police have fined a woman whose dogged determination to dodge a strict new curfew saw her taking a man for a walk -- on a leash.</p><p>Quebec province has imposed an 8:00 pm curfew in a bid to slow the spread of the coronavirus, but residents are allowed to take dogs for walks close to home.</p><p>Police in Sherbrooke, about 150 kilometers (90 miles) east of Montreal, on Saturday stopped a woman who was walking with a man on a leash.</p><p>When they confronted her, she replied with a straight face &quot;that she was walking her dog.&quot;</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UzfJFtLQDc0?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div><p>Sherbrooke police spokeswoman Isabelle Gendron said police believed the woman was &quot;testing us.&quot;</p><p>The woman was fined Can$1,500 (US$1,175), but refused to accept limits on her freedom, telling police she would be back out on the streets every night during the lockdown.</p><p>In the same city, a drunk motorist was stopped and fined. He &quot;just wanted to see what it was like to be outside during the curfew,&quot; Gendron said. </p><p>A curfew of this scale -- province-wide from 8:00 pm to 5:00 am for the next four weeks -- has not been seen in Canada since the Spanish flu a century ago.</p><p>Across the province, 740 tickets have been issued for curfew violations so far, according to official data.</p><div><strong>et/amc/wat/bgs</strong></div><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WuDLmWJmv6o?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div>

<p>MONTREAL - Canadian police have fined a woman whose dogged determination to dodge a strict new curfew saw her taking a man for a walk -- on a leash.</p>

MONTREAL - Canadian police have fined a woman whose dogged determination to dodge a strict new curfew saw her taking a man for a walk -- on a leash.