Ah! Remember I said people toss stuff at bright lights? This guy got busted for it. Don't go so bright, dim your lights, and I got to say I have heard of this being done alot and I mean alot, 1st I have heard someone actually paid the price. Boy is he in trouble. MC
http://www.tribune-chronicle.com/news/articles.asp?articleID=14382
Man guilty of throwing rocks at vehicles
By RON SELAK JR. Tribune Chronicle
WARREN — An Elyria man pleaded guilty to charges accusing the 40-year-old of tossing rocks from his truck at passing vehicles.
Thursday’s plea headed off a trial — set to start on Monday — for Glenn Rogers, who faced charges of vehicular vandalism in connection to reports in December that a motorist along U.S. 422 in Geauga County was tossing iron ingots at vehicles his passed.
Police say Rogers tossed the rocks from his truck because the passing motorists didn’t dim their bright lights.
Rogers is being held in the Geauga County Jail on $50,000. He must undergo a presentence investigation and background check before sentencing.
Police say Rogers, who drove with R and J Trucking in Mahoning County, started tossing rocks at passing cars on a two-lane stretch of U.S. Route 422 and state Route 528 in September.
Most of the 30 incidents police recorded happened between 5:30 and 8:30 a.m. on weekdays.
Rogers was arrested on Dec. 12 after police got a call from a motorist that her windshield had just been hit with one of the large iron ingots on Route 422.
The woman turned around and caught up with the truck while relaying the information to police.
The truck was stopped just inside the Portage County border, where police say they found 15 pieces of the ore inside the tractor trailer.
On at least a couple of instances, the ore stone — sometimes as small as a golf ball, but often as big as a lemon and twice as heavy as a rock of the same size — shot through windshields and then back out of the vehicle’s rear window, police say.
One man was slightly injured when the rock, used in making steel, burst through his windshield, police said.