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Brick thrown from overpass hits trucker in face on Pa. Turnpike
ABC 7 NY ^ | May 6, 2016 | Trish Hartman

Posted on 05/12/2016 8:26:59 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

BRISTOL TWP., Pa. -- Police in Pennsylvania are looking for the person who sent one trucker to the hospital and put several others in danger.

They say the suspect was throwing bricks off an overpass into traffic on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, hitting three trucks Thursday night.

Action News met up with truck driver Randy Blake on his way back home to West Virginia. He was still in shock after a harrowing night.

Randy tells us, "That somebody could be that stupid to do something that heinous just for the kicks of it."

Randy was driving eastbound on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Bristol Township around 6 p.m. when out of nowhere a brick came crashing through his windshield as he drove under Bristol Oxford Valley Road.

"Hit me in the head," Randy said. "I maintained control of the vehicle. Got off the exit. Actually drove all the way down and around to the Wawa."

Another driver called 911 when he saw Randy's face covered in blood. He ended up with 15 stitches, a broken eye socket and a fractured jaw. Randy's wife, Alicia, drove six hours to the hospital when she got the call.

Alicia Blake says she, "Immediately dropped everything. I've never driven up here before. It was 8:30 at night. I was scared to death."

State police say two other truck drivers had their windshields smashed by rocks and bricks around the same time. Those drivers were not hurt. To make matters worse - Randy says he was hauling flammable material.

Randy explains, "I could've lost my eye, I could've wrecked and not only killed me but killed hundreds of other people on the interstate."

He says while he won't stop driving - he's still hoping for an arrest.

"This is how we feed our families. And they're out there almost taking it away from us," he said.

Randy Blake will have to come back to Temple University Hospital in another week or two for surgery to repair his eye socket.

If you have any idea who's responsible, State Police would like to hear from you.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: assault; bricks; bristoltownship; crime; paturnpike; pennsylvania; truckers
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Sick. Throw this punk under the jail.
1 posted on 05/12/2016 8:27:00 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

An utter disregard for human life and wellbeing. Disgusting!


2 posted on 05/12/2016 8:29:10 PM PDT by spetznaz (Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Should be attempted murder charges.


3 posted on 05/12/2016 8:31:24 PM PDT by boycott (--s)
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To: spetznaz
This is the kind of congenital miscreant that when you catch him you dribble honey on his balls and stake him out in front of a large fire ant mound. Just sayin...
4 posted on 05/12/2016 8:35:52 PM PDT by Desron13
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The thrower failed in his mission to kill someone.
Kill the sick bastard, save someone else in this scumbag’s future.


5 posted on 05/12/2016 8:36:25 PM PDT by umgud
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To: boycott

Nothing less.


6 posted on 05/12/2016 8:37:33 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Welcome to 0bama's America!

Ain't Hope and Change and getting back at Whitey fun?

7 posted on 05/12/2016 8:39:39 PM PDT by PROCON
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To: rockinqsranch

My parents had someone drop a brick from an interstate overpass one night. Hit the top of the car on the driver’s side just above the windshield.

Thankfully no one was hurt. No one was ever caught.


8 posted on 05/12/2016 8:45:10 PM PDT by boycott (--s)
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To: Desron13

The ancient Persians kicked it up an octave with scaphism.

A waste of two good canoes, though, IMO.


9 posted on 05/12/2016 8:47:18 PM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: boycott

Fortunate they missed the windshield. Thoughtless, irresponsible, uncaring thrill seekers.


10 posted on 05/12/2016 8:55:26 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: boycott

Should be attempted murder charges.


Agree 100%.

Some punk who likely lives off the working man, tries to fatally injure the working man.


11 posted on 05/12/2016 8:57:55 PM PDT by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I say throw a brick at him.


12 posted on 05/12/2016 8:58:41 PM PDT by dfwgator
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Fortunate they missed the windshield. Thoughtless, irresponsible, uncaring thrill seekers.

There were a few other cars along interstate 10 in Alabama that had the same thing happen to them. I don’t believe they ever caught them.


13 posted on 05/12/2016 9:02:19 PM PDT by boycott (--s)
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To: boycott

we had that in soCal about 25 years ago. Large stones dropped off the overpass. Two deaths IIRC.


14 posted on 05/12/2016 9:08:31 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Hillary for Prison 2016.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Better - under the truck.


15 posted on 05/12/2016 9:09:36 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Islam is a cancer on civilization.)
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To: Jane Long

I believe it happens a lot more than people realize. And it’s not just blacks. There are a lot of idiot whites too.

I searched for “bricks rocks overpass” and there were several stories.


16 posted on 05/12/2016 9:09:51 PM PDT by boycott (--s)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Throw this punk under the jail.

Throw him under the truck.

17 posted on 05/12/2016 9:10:04 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: morphing libertarian

we had that in soCal about 25 years ago. Large stones dropped off the overpass. Two deaths IIRC.

Lots of stories of it happening. I did a search and there were several stories from around the nation where it has happened.


18 posted on 05/12/2016 9:11:14 PM PDT by boycott (--s)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

...unless this is another incident in the same location,this news is about 4 days old...


19 posted on 05/12/2016 9:11:29 PM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon sThailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: PROCON

Think two of the drivers are black


20 posted on 05/12/2016 9:12:45 PM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon sThailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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