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Pizza driver pounded with pumpkins

November 4, 2004

The Daily Northwestern: Fifteen to 20 unknown subjects hit a Papa Romeo's delivery driver with a pumpkin on Halloween night.

According to Cmdr. Joe Bellino of the Evanston (Ill.) Police Department, the subjects then stole the man's car and crashed it into a fence.

Papa Romeo's driver Dharmender Kumar said he was delivering to a house at about 8 p.m. when four or five boys came out of nowhere, throwing pumpkins at him.

"One pumpkin hit me, and I ducked down," said Kumar, 26, pointing to his chest. "It was a big pumpkin, and it hit me very hard."

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