November 3, 2003
Dad Arrested After Pumpkin Attack
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 9:17 a.m. ET
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) -- A 43-year-old man faces charges after he smashed a bird-feeder and threw a pumpkin through the window of a house where his young son said he didn't get any Halloween candy.
Police reports show the man was taking his son trick-or-treating about 6:30 p.m. Friday when the child went to a house where a woman was passing out candy.
The boy returned to his father crying, saying he didn't get any candy.
The man confronted the woman, who said she had given the boy candy. the father and son left, but returned a few minutes later.
The man approached the woman, handed her a piece of paper that had his address written on it and told her to call the police, according to the report.
Police said he then threw a small pumpkin through the front window, tossed a second pumpkin at the front door, and uprooted and smashed a bird feeder from the front yard.
A neighbor yelled at the man to stop as he was heading toward a large potted plant. The man took his son home and was there when police arrived.
The man was arrested on a charge of malicious destruction of property and released on his own recognizance.
Yeah. In Ann Arbor, we're HARD CORE, n' shit.
― Kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 3 November 2003 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)