Someone thew a brick off an over pass and busted my windshield!

[Bravo Zulu]

Pennsylvania,I-79 north before Ruff creek exit, called 911 and made report to the troopers.

[juajen]

Just mean. Why do people do things like this? I just don't understand it. NT

[The Doctor.]

33. Usually, it's bored, stupid kids.

They need to have schools educate them about how this kills people. No kid wants someone's death or disfigurement on their conscience for the rest of their lives.

It happens too often.

[villager]

1. Must have been terrifying and shocking to go through -- glad you're okay.

n/t

[Lefta Dissenter]

2. OMG!

How awful!!! It must have scared the @#^&#*&^%^$ out of you!

Glad you're ok. :pals:

[angstlessk]

3. Glad you were not injured...what creeps try to kill folks indiscriminately

[Mz Pip]

4. Scary.

Glad you are okay. Hope they catch the idiot that did this. It could have ended much worse than just a broken window. :scared:

[formercia]

5. You were very lucky

Six inches up and a foot to the left and you might not be telling us about it.

[snagglepuss]

6. What a friggin idiot. You must feel lucky though that it didn't cause an accident.

[Trajan]

7. Wow ... lucky your alive

"Damaged" kids do this .... a very dangerous form of vandalism ....

[WinkyDink]

8. In my area, a 15-yr-old in this manner KILLED a woman driving an SUV! I'm glad you're here to post!

[mrmpa]

9. This has been happening up and down I 79 and on I 376 for

over two years now. State Police have made only one arrest that I know of, and that was in the Carnegie area.

[Incitatus]

58. It would be nice if they set up some cameras to catch the culprits before more people get killed.

Of course, unlike red light cameras they won't get any revenue from them.

Some overpasses have a big fence along both sides to prevent stuff like this.

[Bunny]

10. I saw a story about this on the news this morning.

Buncha little pukes were doing it - the police caught them. I wonder if it was the same gang that hit you? Glad you're okay.

[livetohike]

11. I'm sorry this happened to you. I hope you are okay

and thankfully, it didn't cause you to have an accident. I hope the police catch the person/persons soon. :hug:

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. Wow. People die that way. You're lucky.

When I was in college, the kids in the neighborhood used to throw snowballs at cars from an overpass right outside of our campus. One year they put rocks in the snowballs and a driver was killed. They never did catch the kids.

[Ishoutandscream2]

13. You could have been killed!

Glad only your windshield got hurt.

[Ilsa]

14. I'm glad you're okay and weren't killed. nt

[ZombieHorde]

15. Fucking lame. They should be throwing bricks at Wall Street. nt

[dems_rightnow]

16. Thanks for being the first...

.... to throw political spin at a non-political situation. :eyes:

[Trajan]

20. -1

It's a free speech thing, and very mild at that ....

[ZombieHorde]

38. I wonder why that bothers you. nt

[ScreamingMeemie]

53. And that's kind of where the problem is, and why it bothers me, at least.

OP had a brick come through his windshield. That's a possibly horrific situation to be in. There was nothing political about the statement. I am grateful that OP is okay. Now I will move on to other threads that may, or may not, deal with the politics that aren't being spoken about in this thread. :)

[Generic Other]

17. OMG that is so scary!

Glad to hear you are okay.

[barbtries]

18. people have been killed that way.

it's a serious crime, i hope the people are arrested. must have scared the crap out of you.

[Keith Bee]

40. Yep

I know (knew) a guy killed in exactly that way.

[reggie the dog]

19. In Greece they throw bricks through bank windows and the windows

of parliament, in the usa people throw them at other folks trying to go to work.

[Wind Dancer]

21. OMG! That's horrific!

Glad you're OK, though. What is WRONG with people????????

[blondeatlast]

22. In Arizona, city overpasses have now been fenced in for this reason;

it was rampant in the late '70s.

Very glad to hear you're okay. :hug:

[FormerDittoHead]

23. My wife had a STOP SIGN dropped on her. Pole and everything.

Chester PA I95N heading to Commodore Bridge. Cop says that happens a lot... (??????)

[GreenPartyVoter]

24. Holy crap! Glad you got through that ok!

[TuxedoKat]

25. How horrible

glad you are okay though and sorry you went through that. I hope they catch the perpetrators. Chances are it's not the first time they've done something like that.

[etherealtruth]

26. Murderous a$$-holes!

I am so sorry

[lunatica]

27. I hope they catch whoever is doing that

And I'm glad it didn't cause a major accident or any lives to be lost.

[Kurovski]

28. That kind of crap is just about...or is attempted murder.

I'm pretty dramatic, though.


I'm so very, very glad you are not damaged physically. I'd probably have passed out in fear, then driven into traffic. This is why I stay home, But enough about me.

Bravo Zulu, you live to tell the tale, and we're happy for that!

[City Lights]

29. That blows!

You're lucky you weren't hurt!

[catabryna]

30. This happened many years ago in Oregon...

you are lucky to be alive. That driver didn't fare so well.

[Faygo Kid]

31. Glad you're OK.

Hope they catch the perp before he kills someone.

[Taverner]

32. WHAT THE FUCK??? You could have died!

You are incredibly lucky, and I am thankful you are here to tell us this story

Stay safe :hug:

[spanone]

34. assault....

[Zax2me]

35. Ugh!!! So GLAD you are okay....

You know, people get killed and disfigured through these mindless acts every year.
It always seems to happen in the spring/summer when kids get out of school.
I think they are too dumb, for lack of a less offensive term, to know what damage they can do with a rock/brick.
Glad you called it in, about all that you can do.
I know I'll be more alert the next month or so as kids get cut loose from class, though I know it can happen any time of year.
Once again, you are really fortunate to escape this uninjured. Happy for that, at least!

[Yo_Mama]

36. I'm so sorry - that's awful

First for the incident itself (glad you're not hurt), and second because you now have to drive around with that additional spice of knowledge that there are nasty vandals like that out there.

[monmouth]

37. How awful, bet your nerves are shot. Mine would be. Hope they find

the person(s) who did this..

[Mist]

39. I'm glad you're here to tell us about it. Indeed it could have been worse. I think that's the real

reason for overpass fencing--not to keep people from falling, but to prevent them from what those idiots did.

[MineralMan]

41. Yikes! Glad you're OK.

[Renew Deal]

42. I'm glad you're OK

That could have gone badly.

[Liberal_in_LA]

43. OMG! Glad you are ok! People suck sometimes

[Bravo Zulu]

44. The main reason I posted this,

is to remind people to scope out the overpasses for people lurking around and take precautions!

[provis99]

45. Does this happen in other countries?

It seems like this is a particularly stupid example of Americana.

[primavera]

49. I was just wondering that very same thing

I mean, most behaviors are ultimately explicable. Particularly if this sort of behavior is happening often enough that some cities, as another posted said, are erecting fences to prevent it, that would seem to suggest that it's not some isolated case of some individual mentally ill person doing it. So what's generating this impulse? Boredom? Rage? Towards whom and why? Perhaps this is symptomatic of something we need to learn from. I don't know, maybe this reflects inadequate parental care, or inadequate opportunities for young people to spend their time more productively, or an inadequate moral compass, or, I don't know, something. If it's occurring frequently, there must be a reason.

[MountainLaurel]

52. Oddly enough

The only case I've heard of it happening in another country involved a few military brats near a base in Germany.

[ileus]

46. I always watch overpasses for this very reason....glad you're ok.

[applegrove]

47. I glad you are okay.

[BobbyBoring]

48. I don't like the looks of those cars either

but that's a little extreme! Glad you're OK though. Shit like that really makes you stop and think.

Years ago, I had a bullet graze the windshield while driving on the Anacostia freeway. Some idiot was shooting a gun at cars. Had I been going 1/2 mph faster, it would have hit me in the head.

[MindPilot]

50. Not just kids and not just rocks...

Here in San Diego they just arrested a guy in his fifties for shooting at cars. The cops had an easy time finding him because he'd been arrested a few months ago for throwing rocks off an overpass.

Glad you're OK, and hopefully your insurance will take care of the damage.

[Dappleganger]

51. Isn't this attempted murder?

Certainly it could have killed you! I am glad you made it through ok but hope they catch whoever did it. From what I've read it's typical of these kind of people to keep throwing objects until they get caught.

[ScreamingMeemie]

54. I am so glad that you are okay. How scary.

I hope they catch the idiots.

[SoCalDem]

55. You are lucky to be alive.. and now you get to pay your insurance company

a deductible..

A few years ago, a guy sideswiped us, and of course the police could not be bothered to actually come to the scene, so it cost us $500 for the privilege of being hit..

We were glad that no one was hurt, but sheees..

[Odin2005]

56. WTF is WRONG with people?

Good to see you're OK!!!

[wildbilln864]

57. glad you're ok...

some kids threw a dumbbell over an overpass here a few years ago and killed a truck driver. And a lady in Charlotte was driving back from a holiday last year and a brick came through the winshield and killed her daughter who was asleep on the passenger side.
:mad:

[Raine]

59. GLAD you're OK ... a pain in the ass with the windshield

but it could've been so much worse. :scared:

[PavePusher]

60. Singapore has it right on some of this stuff.

We need to bring back public flogging and caning for this sort of thing.

[Terra Alta]

61. I'm glad you are okay.

Good Lord, what makes people do that??