Girl May Lose Vision In Egg Throwing Incident
Posted September 25, 2006 12:00 pm.
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Well, as it turns out mom’s advice was correct – and it may cost one young girl the vision in her right eye.
It happened Saturday night around 9:50pm, when someone threw an egg from a car passing Mineola and Lochlin Trail, near Hurontario and the Q.E.W. in Mississauga.
The shell struck a 12-year-old girl in the eye, impairing her vision.
Doctors now fear the damage may be permanent and it may be months before physicians know for sure about how bad it really is.
The youngster named Olivia was walking her dog down the street when the car rolled up and the oval projectile came flying out. “The van went by,” recalls her mother, Janet Ross-Fitchner, who was with her daughter on that fateful stroll. “I noticed that the door was slid open.”
She’s incensed at the carelessness and the stupidity of the act.
“I expect that they didn’t really intend to hurt anyone seriously, but they did. They hurt somebody very seriously.”
And she’s finding it hard to reassure her daughter she’ll be normal again some day.
“I think the toughest part for me is uncertainty and not knowing for sure what’s going to happen,” she worries. “What’s going to happen with her eye. She was hit directly in the eye, and I could see that there was blood visible in the eye and her eye looked very sore.”
About 15 minutes later, the same car showed up near Lakeshore and Clarkson Road, where a pedestrian was struck by another egg. He emerged messed up but unhurt.
Now cops are looking for the pranksters responsible for the supposedly harmless acts, and those behind the unfunny joke could face charges.
“Throwing an egg out of a car is one thing,” relates P.C. Craig Platt. “Now we have someone that could potentially have permanent damage to their eye. It’s now going to be treated as a very serious criminal matter.”
They don’t have a lot to go on and hope you can provide the key clue that will crack the case.
They’re hunting a newer model metallic silver or gold minivan that was occupied by at least three or four males. They’re all believed to be in their late teens or early 20s and cops say they should have known better.
It’s not the first time local police have given stupid pranksters a black eye.
Back in March 2005, a 16-year-old named Tori Waugh was walking down a street in Oakville when a tossed egg from a car hit her squarely in the right eye. She suffered swelling, bruising and a lack of vision, while outraged cops looked for the thoughtless culprit.
“They didn’t think about the consequences,” Tori noted then. “They thought, let’s throw this egg at a girl and then drive off.”
If you know who the people behind this latest incident are, call (905) 453-2121, ext. 1233, or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS/8477.
