The 71-year-old Reynolds doesn’t give a damn who likes or dislikes her — and in Union Bay, a little seaside community that’s certainly not over-the-rainbow or Our Town, that’s apparently a few.
They deny all her charges and have responded with a countersuit insisting she is engaged in a campaign with others that is “wrongful, high-handed and deserving of rebuke” for trespass, nuisance, invasion of privacy and illegal operation of a drone.Article content“Nobody can see what they’re doing there unless you go up in the air,” she explained. “But the eyeball in the sky, gives a perfect view of what’s going on down there. It’s a mess.”Mary Reynolds says she loves living in B.C.
In February and March, Reynolds’s lawsuit alleged, “Jurisich attended the residences of community members who have publicly criticized DWR ship-breaking operations as posing risks to the environment, and has engaged in threatening behaviour, including pounding on doors and windows, and threatening to bankrupt them if they continue to criticize DWR operations.”
A tall, middle-aged man who weighed about 250 lbs., Reynolds estimated, Jurisich towered over her 5-foot-8, 125 lbs. frame. Jurisich continued shouting, bringing his face close in to hers as he shook his fist, she alleged. She feared for her safety and did not try to seize back her drone. Jurisich left with it, she said.
“Jurisich aggressively pushed his head fully into her car window, yelling, ‘You are harassing us. There’s her drone, I’m calling the police.’”Article content
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Good job Mary! The ship wreckers are on notice. Perhaps the government should be stepping up to help her.