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But about 20 minutes later, when the pelters came back for round two, “I saw the yoke splatter right on my window. Now I knew I was being targeted.”

And the third time?

He and his teenaged son went outside the home in the Royal York Rd.-Eglinton Ave. area to see what the heck was going on.

“I called police right away and was talking to them the whole time,” recalled Carnevale. “When I went outside, I could see the lights of the vehicle coming back by the house. As soon as they saw me on the road, they sped up and the wind from the red SUV almost pushed me back. I was inches from being hit and in hospital or worse.”

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He ran after them — and got some good intelligence, too.

All of this is caught on his home’s surveillance camera — including the egg throwing. As photographer Dave Abel shows in video attached to this column, three men came up to the house and threw eggs.

“It’s really disturbing,” said Carnevale. “It was three white guys in the vehicle and they were not kids. And this was not an accident because my street only has one way in and one way out. To come in here you would have to know where I live and you would have to have a reason.”

With current incumbent city councillors John Campbell and Stephen Holyday fighting it out in the new combined ward, it’s interesting Carnevale would be singled out.

“We are doing pretty well at the doors and you can see we have a lot of election signs up in the area,” he said. “People all over are looking for change.”

In addition to capturing Ford’s endorsement, he also has one from the area’s sitting MPP, Progressive Conservative Kinga Surma. He’s certainly not considered an outsider in the ward. But his tough-on-crime stance has ruffled some feathers among the politically correct who have been squawking.