Police hunt phantom vegetable thrower after a patrol car was hit — by a swede
A PHANTOM vegetable thrower is being hunted after a police car was hit by a swede. Officers are probing 17 cases of large root veg being hurled at moving vehicles. The swede was lobbed at a police armed response patrol car on its way to an emergency. It smashed the windscreen and caused £500 of […]
A PHANTOM vegetable thrower is being hunted after a police car was hit by a swede.
Officers are probing 17 cases of large root veg being hurled at moving vehicles.
The swede was lobbed at a police armed response patrol car on its way to an emergency. It smashed the windscreen and caused £500 of damage.
An officer from the armed response unit said the car’s occupants were “fine, but very annoyed”.
They were unable to attend the incident they had been called out to.
Police said it was the 17th recorded incident of large vegetables, such as turnips and swedes, being thrown at vehicles on the A380 between Newton Abbot and Torquay in Devon since November.
Last month a swede smashed into the side of a silver Range Rover. Another driver said a turnip was chucked from a bridge — damaging their car.
The marked police vehicle was attacked at 8.40pm in Torquay on Sunday.
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Police said: “Objects have been thrown from various bridges at different days and times.
“A substantial amount of damage has been caused to vehicles and this has the potential to cause a serious accident.
“Work continues to identify offenders.”
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