Montreal Constable Mario Delvecchio's owes his life to his smoking habit.The officer was out on Ontario St. E near Joly when a sniper started shooting out of the window of his rooming house.
Delvecchio - who was behind the wheel of a police ambulance - was hit by a 22-calibre slug which hit his Bic lighter and a pack of Dumauriers stuffed into his shirt pocket.
The father of a then-five-year-old boy survived, as the bullet harmlessly plopped to the ground on August 13, 1978 at 7:55 a.m.
He usually wore a bulletproof vest but it was too hot that day.
But the shooting spree wasn't all fun and games.
Pierre Thibodeau, 27, who owned the apartment block across the street, looked out the window and was shot in the head and killed.
The gunman fired 15 shots in total.
He was eventually persuaded to surrender without force.