ATS: Who would do such a thing?!

Toronto police are searching for "a disturbed person" who embedded sharp blades in a dozen blocks of wood and buried them in beach volleyball courts at Ashbridge's Bay. "They were placed deliberately to cause injury to people playing beach volleyball," Detective Norman Brinn told a news conference yesterday afternoon.



Constable Nick Kalatzopoulos displays eight blades stuck in blocks of wood that were found buried in the sand at beach volleyball courts near Ashbridge�s Bay yesterday.

The sandy courts officially became a crime scene after one of the players noticed a glint of metal and uncovered a sharp blade stuck in a small block of wood.

It is obvious that somebody wants to get these vollyball players injured, he/she placed the blades in the middle of the court, just under the sand. Right where the most action, dives happen.

Domagala and his partner were warming up on the beach shortly before 9 a.m., when she dove and he spotted something unusual beside her. He shifted the sand and discovered a second blade.

The blades are said to be put there between 6p.m. and 6a.m. the next morning. Players are diving all the time. It could have cut an Achilles tendon or an artery very easily. Somebody could have been killed.

Police combed the sand with metal detectors and by early afternoon, The blocks � seven to 15 centimetres long � were cut by a machine and the blades, of varying lengths, were secured in a deep groove. These blocks have been fashioned for the sole purpose of injuring someone playing beach volleyball.

What could possible posses somebody that much to delibritally want to hurt vollyball players.

Imagine just stepping on one of those blades, which were sharp, and rust - let alone diving onto one. They most definatly could cause some serious damage.

What would happen if a child was to want to take a walk on the beach, like most kids do. He wandered, and stepped on one, which was only burried a couple inches under the sand. The child could bleed to death.

Sick, sick people. That's all I have to say.


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[edit on 22-9-2004 by Nerdling]

hmmm...you have to wonder whether they intended it for anyone in particular or whether they just have something against volleyball players in general, maybe they didn't make the team when they were younger or something.

Either way that's one sick puppy, thankfully no one was harmed.


[edit on 22-9-2004 by John Nada]

There are really disturbed people that get a kicked out of injuring others, and probably making the news. Things like this have also happened in Europe in the past.

[edit on 22-9-2004 by Muaddib]

that is so messed up, it's scary to think anyone could have been injured, luckily they were found early so nothing serious could have occured