Man Charged with Assault for Tossing a Pickle from a Car

A man in Vermont finds himself in quite a pickle – after he was arrested for throwing a pickle from his moving vehicle, which hit a highway worker.

Carl Hoffman, the 59-year-old highway worker was struck by the pickle, and suffered pain from it.  No word how fast the vehicle was going, when a passenger in the car – which was traveling south on U.S. 7 – tossed the gherkin.  Or, it could have been any one of the following – the report doesn’t specify:  Dill, Gherkin, Cornichon, Brined, Kosher Dill, Polish, Hungarian, Lime, Bread and Butter, Swedish and Danish, or Kool-Aid Pickle.

Troopers later caught the vehicle, and arrested the passenger:  Christoph Hermannsdoerfer of Massachusetts.  He was charged with simple assault; and had to appear in court, there, the following month, for his part in the whole “dill.”

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