Theft of Winnipeg man's 50-year-old front gate leaves community on alert
Someone walked away with a gate - and it made national news in Canada...
Every day for the past 50 years, Walter Probizansky has walked in and out of the same iron gate standing in front of his Winnipeg home.
But on Wednesday night, the decades-old routine was interrupted.
“In the morning, when I got up to get the paper, I noticed the gate,” he said. “It wasn’t open. It wasn’t there period.”
Probizanksy believes it was lifted right off its hinges.
His granddaughter Tristi Probizanksy said she saw someone running away with it.
“I was just like telling him to stop and when I yelled that, he wouldn’t stop,” she said. “He just kept walking down the street.”
Probizanksy said the old iron gate looks like many of the others in the Elmwood neighborhood in the city’s northeast, leaving residents in the area on alert.
But on Wednesday night, the decades-old routine was interrupted.
“In the morning, when I got up to get the paper, I noticed the gate,” he said. “It wasn’t open. It wasn’t there period.”
Probizanksy believes it was lifted right off its hinges.
His granddaughter Tristi Probizanksy said she saw someone running away with it.
“I was just like telling him to stop and when I yelled that, he wouldn’t stop,” she said. “He just kept walking down the street.”
Probizanksy said the old iron gate looks like many of the others in the Elmwood neighborhood in the city’s northeast, leaving residents in the area on alert.
Meanwhile, Probizanksy likely won’t be replacing the gate because he’s had other metal items stolen from his yard before.
“Now I’ll have to put up a light…because it’s getting really sick for someone to steal a gate,” he said.
“Now I’ll have to put up a light…because it’s getting really sick for someone to steal a gate,” he said.
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