APR 27, 1995

ORANGE ATTACK

I was trying to mind my own business trying to get across the drawbridge over the mouth of the Green River between South Amboy and Perth Amboy, NJ when I got attacked. It was already difficult trying to walk through the obstacle course of trash and broken bottle glass on the narrow walkway over the bridge. A few feet after I had gone around a girder I felt a hard blow to the left side of the back of my neck.

Somebody had decided that I needed an orange on my back. They had opened up their car window and gave it a toss. It had to have been traveling as fast as a baseball. It was lucky for me that the orange seemed to have been half eaten so that it wasn't as hard as a whole one. I'm not sure that the location of the blow was intentional or that the person miscalculated in trying to hit me in the back.