iN VIDEO: Watch a canoe take flight on gust of wind in Kamloops

If you’ve ever wanted to see a flying canoe, now's your chance. A canoe was picked up by a strong gust of wind from a backyard in the Westsyde neighbourhood in Kamloops yesterday, April 19. The boat was launched across three properties and landed in a backyard in-ground pool. No...

iN VIDEO: Watch a canoe take flight on gust of wind in Kamloops

If you’ve ever wanted to see a flying canoe, now's your chance.

A canoe was picked up by a strong gust of wind from a backyard in the Westsyde neighbourhood in Kamloops yesterday, April 19.

The boat was launched across three properties and landed in a backyard in-ground pool.

No one was hurt but the canoe was damage, according to Ryan Wright, whose surveillance camera caught the spectacle on video.

"I helped my neighbour carry his canoe back, it took a beating," Wright said in a social media post.


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