Man Arrested for Throwing Tomatoes at Sarah Palin, Police Say

Updated December 07, 2009


This story on Foxnews is about a man who apparently got himself arrested because he was on an upper level of the Mall of America in Minnesota, and supposedly threw two tomatoes at Sarah Palin the former 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, as she sat below signing copies of her new book for fans. However Palin was not hit by the tomatoes, but instead the tomatoes hit a policeman nearby so, the arrested man may face assault charges.



I thought this story was rather hilarious because I did not know people still threw fruit or vegetables at people they did not like. I’ve never been to the Mall of America. Do they sell tomatoes there? Was this premeditated and were the tomatoes brought with the assailant? Were the tomatoes rotten or the grocery store green ripened kind? How did the authorities know he was aiming at Sara, when the article reported that neither tomato came close to hitting her? Maybe he was trying to hit the police instead.



People are so funny and even the article compared this book signing event to an event like Black Friday. People do strange things on Black Friday so I can imagine the frenzy scene but a little put out that the writer for this article called the people in line "die hard supporters" of Palin, like it was a bad thing, and made the supporters appear as if crazed because they were in line at 5 a.m. and standing in freezing temperatures. I kind of like Palin myself and I am glad it was only tomatoes that were thrown at her and that she was not hurt. I feel bad for the policeman because you know that must have hurt very bad hitting him in the face. This assailant aught to be ashamed of himself for throwing anything from a second story Mall balcony as it could have severely injured or even killed someone such as a small child or an infant. In a busy Mall, from that height he is lucky he did not strike a small child or heaven forbid an infant since I’m pretty sure children were present in the crowd with some of the people in line. So as you can see my first laughter about this story has turned into outrage, not that he threw something at Sara, but because he even threw anything at all from the balcony above people. People are insanely stupid these days and have no common sense and it is getting dangerous to be around even non criminals. This assailant reminds me of the people I watched in a movie portrayal of a guy, who is not too bright in his present life, and somehow goes through a time machine experiment and he wakes up in the future and finds he is the smartest person on the planet. He can’t believe how utterly stupid people are and he is trying desperately to educate the masses into realizing the decline of their ways from past mistakes and how to correct their problems now.



The rest of the story was void of any interest with small details of the time Palin arrived, what she was wearing, who she was with, an interview with a high school age fan standing in line, and that Palin did not give any speeches or talk to reporters. I imagine the reporter of this article was probably standing in line at 4:45 a.m. behind the 16yr old he interviewed and sorely disappointed the only story he could make up was that a couple of tomatoes hit a cop but came very close to Sara Palin.