Massive wind-blown holiday decoration damages cars in Stamford’s Harbor Point
Video obtained by News 12 shows the globe starting at the tip of Triangle Park, and slowly making its way down Harbor Point Road South, crashing into at least two cars.
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A giant holiday decoration being blown in the wind was caught on camera rolling through Stamford's Harbor Point neighborhood during Friday afternoon's storms, crashing into multiple cars.
Video obtained by News 12 shows the globe starting at the tip of Triangle Park, and slowly making its way down Harbor Point Road South, crashing into at least two cars.
"I was mostly like 'we're going to die," said Alix Abbamonte, who was driving the first car hit in the video.
"I couldn't move, I couldn't go anywhere, and I saw it coming at us, and I was like "That giant ornament's going to hit my car right now,'" Abbamonte said. "…So we just braced for impact and hoped the windows didn't break."
Abbamonte says the decoration started as a place for people to sit and take pictures in Triangle Park and is owned and operated by Building and Land Technology (BLT), a developer which runs much of the Harbor Point area.
The video shared by Abbamonte shows smears of sand, as well as multiple scrapes and dents on the back part of the vehicle after the collision.
"It's a lot, I'm sure it will not be an easy fix,” she said.
Abbamonte says BLT told her to get an estimate, and they will pay for the repairs.
Torquita Diaz says her car was only grazed by the ornament as it rolled down the street.
"It's a beautiful ball, don't get me wrong," said Diaz, "but it wasn't worth the damage."
Workers from BLT were seen around the park putting the ornament back in its original place early Monday morning. News 12 reached out to BLT about the ordeal but was told, “No comment.”
"I will always be someone that got attacked by a 10-and-a-half-foot ornament," Abbamonte laughed. "I never in my life thought that would be a sentence that would come out of my mouth but, there it was."
