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A Port Moody commuter got the fright of his life in January 2005.
Alex Nemeth was driving on Gaglardi Way in Burnaby to his job at Dairyland when giant snowballs packed around two rocks were hurled from a pedestrian overpass.
The icy orbs smashed the windshield of his 1996 Chevy pick-up.
Nemeth, who spied the boys who hurled the projectiles atop the bridge, stopped his vehicle and tried to chase them, but slipped on the ice.
“I was pretty shaky. I still am,” he told the Tri-City News. “I don’t believe how kids can be that bad.”
The problem of objects being thrown from the pedestrian overpass that links residential developments along Forest Grove Drive and Beaverbrook Drive had been ongoing for years.
In fact, the previous fall, Burnaby council promised to spend $140,000 to enclose it, work which was expected to be completed in the spring of 2005.
The Tri-City News has covered civic affairs, local crime, festivals, events, personalities, sports and arts in Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam and Port Moody since 1983. Bound back issues of the paper are available at the Coquitlam Archives, while digital versions of several past years can be found at issuu.com.
