Playground structure stolen in brazen, bizarre heist in Headingley, Man. - BERITAJA

A Manitoba daycare proprietor is scratching her caput aft a brazen and bizarre burglary.

When Angie Izzard arrived astatine her business, Guiding Minds Montessori, an early puerility acquisition centre successful Headingley, Man., about 6:40 a.m. Friday, the first point she noticed was that personification had rammed a conveyance done the obstruction about the outdoor play area.

“Then I noticed, arsenic I was throwing things retired astatine the dumpster, that our ample play building was gone,” Izzard told BERITAJA.

“I was really wholly shocked. I don’t cognize really personification would moreover want to bargain a play building from children. And how? How would you moreover get a ample play building for illustration that moreover into a conveyance aliases truck?”

Izzard said the play building was bolted to the ground. She besides says the incident resulted successful an unexpected instruction for immoderate young minds.

“Some of them person had tears because they emotion that play structure. So it breaks my bosom that personification would do this to … You know, to children,” she said.

Manitoba RCMP opportunity they are canvassing the area for information footage, hoping to place and merchandise images of a fishy vehicle.

“(It is) rather unusual. A ample point that is going to require dismantling, thing that takes time, putting personification astatine consequence of getting caught,” Manitoba RCMP Sgt. Paul Manaigre said.

Izzard says the centre was not equipped pinch information cameras and that they will beryllium installing them now. She besides says the metallic lining from the incident is that galore families of the children and members of the nationalist person already stepped up to donate and thief switch the play building and hole the fence.

But for her, the incident is still unsettling — and a head-scratcher.

“Why? I don’t understand why they would want our structure?” Izzard said.

“Obviously they didn’t travel to Montessori to study that respect and guidance and kindness.”