My Husband Attacked – Luckily, He Escaped with His Eyesight Intact

My husband was attacked at 3:30 this afternoon. Luckily he did not lose his eyesight in this attack. Here’s what happened.

He is an accountant, and today he went to a tax office in a residential neighborhood to pay some tax for the company he works for. Close by, there was a crazy man (my husband’s words) without a shirt on who was angry at a crowd of nearby people. The crazy man picked up a huge rock (maybe eight inches/sixteen centimeters) in diameter, and threw it toward the people. It bounced onto a road sign, then on to the windshield of our car, which my husband was driving. Small pieces of glass were shattered all over the inside of the car when he picked me up at 6:00 PM. My husband was driving us home when I got out my camera and took this picture. My husband says that if the rock had not hit the road sign first, and had been a direct hit, it would obviously have been much worse. My husband does not wear glasses, and had no eye protection–luckily his eyes were undamaged, and he was unhurt.

Here’s a picture of our car from the outside:

So, the full story on this is the man, who must be homeless, was aggressively trying to get something to eat (he must have been quite hungry) from a nearby café, or perhaps bothering patrons, when the café owner chased after him with a stick (which indicates to me that he must be causing a habitual, as this is not normal for café owners to do–and police in my country don’t normally deal with this sort of problem). Apparently a crowd of people gathered around to watch the confrontation, and the man became so incensed he picked up rocks and began throwing them at the crowd. So the attack wasn’t aimed at my husband–my husband was just in the wrong place, at the wrong time.

If a rock like this would have hit someone in the head, they would most likely be dead. I asked my husband what happened to the man after the rock was thrown, or what the crowd did. He said he didn’t stick around to find out, but just got quickly away. I suggested he should file a police report, so at least the insurance would cover the windshield, but he didn’t want to. He thought it would be a lot more trouble, and thought if we did get the insurance to cover it, that they would raise the rate.

Eileen

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