The Tampa Bay Times
CLEARWATER, Fla. — A man was tired of all the racket fire trucks were causing early one morning in February, according to an arrest report, so he threw a rock at one of them.
David Joel Petrou, 38, who authorities say is homeless, was arrested Sunday and faces a charge of throwing a deadly missile at an occupied vehicle.
Petrou told a witness he was “tired of the fire trucks and ambulances going down the street with their lights and sirens, so I threw a rock at one of them,” according to the Clearwater police report.
On Feb. 3, a Clearwater Fire Rescue truck heading west on Gulf-to-Bay Boulevard in response to a call was hit by a piece of concrete, smashing the windshield and spraying glass on the firefighters inside.
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