Last week I had a peach thrown at my head.
Coming toward Lititz, I had stopped at an intersection for a passing car. I looked the other way to see if traffic was also coming from the other direction. When I looked back toward the approaching car, I saw an orange orb flying directly at me. A good throw from a moving vehicle. The ripe peach skimmed my left shoulder. By the time I rode the nearly three miles home from there, my jersey had begun to smell like cheap peach schnapps.
I was angry, but lucky. It could have been much worse.
On Wednesday evening, a bicyclist was shot in the arm while riding in Landisville, East Hempfield Township police reported in today’s New Era. The 53-year-old Landisville man, whom police did not identify, was taken to Lancaster General Hospital, where he was treated and released.
The man was riding east on Main Street, Landisville, at about 7:30 p.m. He was about to turn right onto Nissley Road when he was shot by a passing motorist.
East Hempfield Police Det. Steve Draper said the incident appeared to “a senseless, random act.” He did not believe the bike rider was specifically targeted.
Apparently, it could have been much worse for this bicyclist too. Based on the victim’s injury, Draper believes he was shot with a BB gun.
The vehicle was described as a two-door, light-colored car with vinyl or cloth covering about half of the car’s roof. Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call the East Hempfield Township police at 898-3103.
