Halifax Hallowe'eny Police Report

In Cole Harbour, fire crews responded earlier in the evening to a reported brush fire. Firefighters ran a few hoses into the bush but it turned out to be an out of control bonfire that was quickly knocked down.

Police were also busy dealing with a fracas at Dalhousie University where a group of teenagers allegedly antagonized some students.

The taunting turned to violence, according to a witness, when one young person clubbed a student in the face with a bottle and another hit a student with a wrench.

A crowd of students subdued four of the attackers and police arrived a short time later to take the young people into custody shortly after 8 p.m.

The extent of injuries the victims suffered was not immediately known.

At about the same time, an assailant dressed as Santa Claus and an accomplice wearing green overalls and a Jason goalie mask barged into a Charles Street home.

One attacker stabbed at a man inside the home. He suffered a small, superficial wound, according to Staff Sgt. Don Fox of Halifax Regional Police.

The intruders fled and police continue to investigate.

An RCMP officer was slightly injured when a passing car clipped him during a traffic stop.

A female driver apparently did not see the constable as he spoke with the driver of a car he had pulled over in the area of 1715 St. Margarets Bay Rd. in Timberlea. The officer suffered a minor elbow injury, police said.

** In unreported news, firefighters were called to the corner of Cunard at Maynard where someone had set fire to a bag of garbage at the curb (and where the police were called for domestic violence on Christmas morning). Fortunately, the inhabitants managed to extinguish the fire with pans of water before the officials in shiny red arrived on the scene.