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Lisa Ferre and her two young children were driving home early Monday evening when something equally frightening and shocking happened. "All I saw was this big black ball come at my windshield, and all of a sudden there was all this shattered glass everywhere," she recalls. "I was covered in glass and my kids were covered in glass and screaming." The object that shattered the driver's side portion of the windshield turned out to be a seemingly harmless water balloon, hurled at her pickup truck from an approaching vehicle. The prank went awry when the force of the two moving vehicles as they passed each other proved surprisingly powerful. Prepared to head up the Third Ave. hill near Mike's Ice 'N' Burger Hut, Lisa immediately hit the brakes, not sure what had just taken place. Despite Lisa's minor bleeding due to the glass shards, neither she nor her children sustained injury. For that, Lisa considers herself fortunate. "I could have swerved into another vehicle; I could have been rear-ended; I could have swerved into the guardrail and hit a pedestrian," says the Creighton resident. After stopping, Lisa was covered in so much glass that she was afraid to pick up her children, ages two and five, and remove them from the truck cab. Two passing motorists came to her aid by removing the children and providing Lisa with a cell phone with which to contact the police. "I'd like to thank Linden Dominey and Breann Gummerson for stopping and helping my kids and me out in a shocking time. Their care and concern will never be forgotten," she says. The good samaritan couple also caught the license plate number of the offending vehicle. Within an hour, Lisa was on the phone with the balloon tosser, a young man she coincidentally already knew. Lisa was told that the balloon had been aimed at the pavement in front of her truck, and she took the man at his word. The pair settled the situation themselves, with the man agreeing to replace the windshield. Still a little shaken, Lisa accepts the incident as a prank gone unintentionally bad. "It was a shocking experience and hopefully people learn a lesson from this," she says. "I used to work for Department of Saskatchewan Highways, and you don't mess around with moving vehicles."
