NORTH VANCOUVER — A supposed pipe fight and stabbing between North Vancouver high school students turned out to be something far more innocuous — although still potentially deadly.
Police received a complaint just before 11:30 p.m. Saturday about a large group of people fighting on the 1000-block of Doran Road in Lynn Valley.
When officers arrived, they found an 18-year-old North Vancouver man with a deep wound in his back, bleeding profusely after allegedly being stabbed.
“As the investigation unfurled, it was made evident that two groups of people from two different high schools were in an altercation of sorts," said Cpl. Richard De Jong, North Vancouver RCMP spokesman.
Though the caller initially said the students were hitting each other with pipes, police later found they were actually using foam “pool noodles.”
“Two males started at it, pushing back and forth and hitting each other with those noodles,” De Jong said.
The injured teen was knocked off balance and fell backward.
“He had a backpack containing a glass bottle of rum, which shattered due to the impact and a shard of it went through the backpack and pierced his back,” De Jong said.
No charges are being considered, he said.
