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Just like someone’s mother probably said just before the incident.

It’s All Fun And Games ’til Someone Loses An Eye

City rains on kids parades
HRM bans handing out treats at nighttime parades after boy cut near eye by flying gummy

The city is banning people from handing out candy at the annual Holiday Parade of Lights and other nighttime parades after a child was hurt by a sweet thrown from a municipal float.The eight-year-old ended up with four stitches just above the eye, something his mother told Mayor Peter Kelly happened after he’d been hit by a candy thrown from the mayor’s Halifax Regional Municipality float.

“I was coming by and she said, ‘My son has been hurt,’ ” he said Tuesday.

“She indicated that it appeared that it was thrown from the float.”

The mayor heard all this on Saturday night in downtown Halifax as his float in The Chronicle Herald Holiday Parade of Lights left Barrington Street to head up Spring Garden Road.

He’d been carefully handing out treats on one side of the route, walking among people to hand out candies or drop them at peoples’ feet.

His preteen son and two young friends worked on the road’s other side.

Mr. Kelly wasn’t riding the float at the time.

Deputy mayor Sue Uteck, downtown Halifax councillor Dawn Sloane and four small children rode the float, but there was no candy near them.

It was on the flatbed truck pulling the float, where two people played music and re-stocked candy supplies for others, but weren’t distributing candy, Mr. Kelly said.

The boy was bleeding, so Mr. Kelly pointed her in the direction of police officers, who helped her get to the IWK Health Centre.

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