A Narrow Escape for the Councillor
An Ontario councillor considers herself “lucky” after she was merely singed by a firework that she says someone shot at her on Canada Day in the Uptown area of Waterloo.
Incident on Canada Day
Ward 7 Coun. Julie Wright told Global News that she was leaving the Canada Day drone show at Waterloo Park with her family on Monday night at around 10:30 p.m. when the trouble began.
“As we headed home, we were coming down Central Street in uptown Waterloo, and my family was up ahead,” she explained. “I was trailing them a little bit, and there was a fellow in the bushes on the school property lighting fireworks.”
Firework Attack
Wright said she yelled for the man to stop as there were families walking by the area at the time.
“He just turned on me and started shooting the fireworks at me,” she said. “It was multiple fireworks, so two to three of them went off and one of them hit me right where my ear meets my cheek.”
Riding a Bike and Wearing Protection
Wright was on her bike and wearing a bike helmet when the incident occurred.
“I was just ducking and evading and managed to get one right in the ear,” she explained.
