03/11/05
Motherf*cking Palestinian kids stoned me

About 30 minutes ago I was stoned by Palestinian mini-terrorists while driving home from band practice on the Jerusalem-Modi'in highway, Road 443. Thankfully I am fine, not that shaken up, but rather angry. Angry at myself for trusting that these incidents were behind us. And angry that I didn't have a gun on me.
I was cruising down the road listening to the new Death in Vegas greatest hits album (disc 2, song: Scorpio Rising, Polyphonic Spree remix) when the car driving about 100 meters ahead of me slowed down considerably. At this point I saw there was a large amount of debris in the road and then it clicked. Fuck. That car just got stoned and I'm next. Stopping wasn't an option. Who knew if these fuckers had guns? My instincts told me to gas it. So I did, as fast as my Honda Civic would take me. I quickly turned into the left lane and pulled my left arm up to guard my head and my face. Better a broken arm than a head wound. Unfortunately, the mini-terrorists were standing practically on the road and launched a huge stone at my car. I saw the fucker and he must have been thirteen or fourteen. Thankfully, they either had bad aim or I was just driving too fast but the huge stone hit the side of my car. If I stayed in the right lane it would have probably have gone right through the passenger side window and well...let's not go there. I immediately called the police to report it and stopped at the roadblock a couple kilometers down the road.
The car in front of me was lucky as well. The stone hit their windshield and went right through but thankfully neither of the occupants were wounded.
I am irate right now. My years of political moderation might be over. I'll post a photo of the damage tomorrow and you can decide whether stones are lethal weapons or not.
UPDATE: As you can see from this photo, I wasn't the victim of a childish stone throwing. This was nothing more than an attempt to seriously harm me. The rock thrown was the size of a grapefruit. The velocity and the weight of the stone were enough not only to severely dent my car but throw the entire panel off it's track. Look how close it is to the window. Damn!
Also, this wasn't my first incident on the road. Back in December of 2003 a rock was thrown at my car as well. You can read about that one
here.