Thanks to a PBB subscriber who took the time yesterday to alert us to this interesting piece of news, tagged with a subject line entitled, “Holy Crap!”
Subject lines like that usually pique my interest.
According to media reports out of Vancouver late yesterday, Dr. David Ho, heir to the Hong Kong tobacco fortune and head honcho of Vancouver – based Harmony Airways was pulled over by Vancouver Police at 5:30 a.m. a couple of days ago in Vancouver’s seedy east side for erratic driving.
With Dr. Ho in his Porsche Cayenne were apparently two, er, ladies of the evening and, oh yes, a bag of “what was believed to be” crack cocaine was found on the rear seat.
Dr Ho, who has, according to the media report, made numerous donations to the Vancouver Police Dept. over the years, was overheard by the officer involved calling the VPD Chief and asking him” to do something” about the issue.
Harmony currently has four 757’s, but is dropping back to three in April. The airline is pretty much getting hammered financially.
Conventional wisdom in the Canadian market has been that Ho wants out but does not want to incur loss of face in the very large Vancouver Chinese community.
As our subscriber said, “You gotta believe getting caught on the east side of downtown Vancouver at 5:30 a.m. with some lovely ladies and a bag of rock pretty much ensures loss of face.”
If not more.
A few more airline CEOs like Dr. Ho and we’re gonna make the NBA start to look respectable.
Big Deal… so the guy likes to party, it will only make me want to fly on his airline more… as long as he’s not at the yolk.
If this story is true, why has it vanished from the news desks in town?
If this is instead a viscious rumour, who would initiate it?
Are Justice and Journalism for sale in our neck of the woods?
David Berner