Police Looking For Pumpkin Hurling Suspects

Oh goodness, I hope the law gets those pumpkin hurlers. That's some recklessly dangerous behavior there. They really could have got some people killed for real.

 

There's mischievous and then there's plain ole insane. To me that's attempted murder. It's thought out and executed knowing the result is going to hurt or kill someone.

 

"The case is being investigated as a case of propulsion of missile into an occupied vehicle – a second degree misdemeanor because no one was injured"...because they got lucky, but the bad intent with no remorse for the possible consequences still existed. I prefer driving nights, and generally peek up at overpasses but I need to be even more aware these days. Nobody is truly held accountable. Like the guy who cut the fuel on that airline flight, what a bunch of bs that was.

 

This happened to me early in my career, 1978 to be precise.
I had just picked up my brand new International 4070B in Fort Wayne IN (NAVL) on my way to Grand Rapids MI to pick up it's first load.
It was in August, so the pumpkin off the overpass in question was still green, not partly rotted like it would have been in November.
Completely spider webbed the passenger side window. Called the cops from the next exit. Took a report.
That windshield leaked for the rest of the life of the truck.

 

Probably would have killed them if it"# landed on a bike.

 

Seems this story pops up every year on some highway in Pennsylvania.