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Bus stop sign impaled through parked car’s windshield at Winnipeg gas station

A bus stop sign rests in a car after being impaled through a front windshield. Alison MacKinnon/Global News

Surely this isn’t a normal sign of spring.

A Winnipeg Transit bus stop sign — somehow — ended up sprouting through the windshield of a parked car at a Shell gas station on Portage Avenue Monday afternoon.

The bus stop sign was resting in a hole through the windshield at about 1 p.m. Monday. It appears to have been picked up and thrown into the vehicle, javelin-like, or possibly stabbed through the front window.

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An employee who answered the phone at the station didn’t have many details, except to say that it had happened at about 12:30 p.m. and that no one came in to the store complaining about what happened.

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The employee speculated that someone left their car parked in the lot and left for the day, making for a heck of a surprise when they return.

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It appears no one was hurt.

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