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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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To: boycott

some overpasses with tall fences, especially in downtown LA area


21 posted on 05/12/2016 9:14:11 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Hillary for Prison 2016.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Common game for the oppressed youth. Can’t blame them, slavery and all.


22 posted on 05/12/2016 9:14:42 PM PDT by golux
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To: Doogle

Article date is May 6.


23 posted on 05/12/2016 9:21:54 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Stick a fork in America; she's done.)
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To: boycott

Oh, I didn’t say anything about race. That never entered my mind.

Dumbazz punks and trough feeders come in all shapes, sizes and colors.


24 posted on 05/12/2016 9:26:56 PM PDT by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

If there is any video, or even if not, contact Crime Watch Daily..... Great investigative show... They try hard to get to the bottom of the things.


25 posted on 05/12/2016 9:28:38 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (God bless the United States of America)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

If there is any video, or even if not, contact Crime Watch Daily..... Great investigative show... They try hard to get to the bottom of the things.


26 posted on 05/12/2016 9:28:40 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (God bless the United States of America)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Makes me aks I’ve always wanted to:

What’s the difference between the Amish and the Pennsylvania dutch?


27 posted on 05/12/2016 9:29:27 PM PDT by WKTimpco
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To: Jane Long

Dumbazz punks and trough feeders come in all shapes, sizes and colors.


Yep. No race has the monopoly on idiots.


28 posted on 05/12/2016 9:33:48 PM PDT by boycott (--s)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The charge should be attempted murder.


29 posted on 05/12/2016 9:39:27 PM PDT by G Larry (ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Prayers for Randy’s recovery.


30 posted on 05/12/2016 9:39:27 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The person(s) doing this need to be found, convicted, and, yes, executed. There needs to be zero tolerance on wanton violence like this.


31 posted on 05/12/2016 9:41:46 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Make America Great Again Starts with America First! I stand with Trump.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I hope someone throws a cement truck at this coward’s face.


32 posted on 05/12/2016 9:44:53 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Vote for your guns!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Very sick. Yes, the criminal should be jailed.

This happened to a nice lady in Ohio in 2014. Excellent police work found two white guys and brothers and teenagers who visited the scene two times. Police questioned the two guys, arrested and charged them with $50,000 bail.

Punks. No crime is unpunished, since either the police catch them in this life or God holds them accountable in the next life.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/woman-hit-face-8-lb-rock-dropped-penn-overpass-article-1.1868125


33 posted on 05/12/2016 9:49:39 PM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94))
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To: Falconspeed

I remember this story. The lady was from OH, the criminals were from PA. 3 of the 4 went to jail.

http://www.dailyitem.com/news/mom-one-son-didn-t-deserve-jail-term-in-rock/article_8a0652be-5419-11e5-b29d-ff32d6707f3a.html


34 posted on 05/12/2016 9:58:30 PM PDT by definitelynotaliberal (I believe it! He's alive! Sweet Jesus!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Attepted murder. That should be the charge.

Multiple counts.

Terrorism attempting shutdown of us interstate hwy by mass accident crashes.


35 posted on 05/12/2016 10:03:56 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The trucker is very lucky he lived. A few miles from where I live four punks one night as they described it were having some redneck fun threw a rock off an overpass on I-75 into the windshield of a car killing a woman.


36 posted on 05/12/2016 10:33:11 PM PDT by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

This kind of crime deserves public stoning, in the biblical manner. Of the perp and his parents and siblings, and any progeny and their maternal units.

Same goes for any female executing this particular inhuman nonsense, but every baby-daddy connected to her and his immediate kin get the same treatment.

You want to see this crap stop HARDCORE? I got your hardcore right here!

Civilized people are growing VERY weary of barbaric behaviour by certain members of several sub-cultures. Enough is enough already.


37 posted on 05/12/2016 10:38:04 PM PDT by Don W ( When blacks riot, neighborhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: Reno89519

See my #37.

I’m REALLY CROSS about this kind of thing, since I was a recipient of a dropped 16”x8”x8” concrete block in the passenger’s side of my windshield a few years ago.

I am still concerned every time I drive under an overpass, bridge, pedestrian walk, trestle, etc. if I see someone walking on same. Not their fault, but I remember...

My life was permanently altered by the thoughtless and STUPID action of persons still unknown.


38 posted on 05/12/2016 10:46:34 PM PDT by Don W ( When blacks riot, neighborhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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Unless he is black, and unless the dude that threw the brick was white, it doesn’t f*^@&#*&n matter


39 posted on 05/12/2016 11:14:52 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Rat bastard.


40 posted on 05/13/2016 1:33:26 AM PDT by Alt Right (Newt 2012 is now Romney 2012, making Obama a one term President.)
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