Showing posts with label Galesburg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Galesburg. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

HOMELESS MAN ARRESTED FOR MOON PIE ATTACK

The question is...Did he wash it down with a cold RC cola?

GALESBURG, Ill. (AP) - Police in Galesburg said a homeless man was arrested for allegedly attacking an 84-year-old man with a box of Moon Pies.

The elderly man told police he was on his way out of a dollar store on Friday when he felt something striking him repeatedly in the back. He said he turned around and saw that 53-year-old Michael Farquer was hitting him with something inside a yellow plastic bag.

The victim went back inside the store, and Farquer followed him, whereupon the staff called police. Officers determined that the weapon was a one-dollar box of Moon Pies, which they confiscated as evidence before taking Farquer to the Knox County Jail on a battery charge.