by CHRISTINE CHARNOSKY
Correspondent
WESTFIELD – If there is a book with 101 Reasons to Miss Work, then add number 102: getting hit with a piece of fruit.
Thursday night at 9:49 p.m., a call came in to Westfield Police from someone who said they heard a man yelling, “Owwww!”
When police arrived at Quick Food Convenience Store on Southwick Road, they found a 49-year-old Westfield resident in the parking lot. He told police, “I was struck in the ‘banana’ by a banana,” according to Lt. Jerome Pitoniak.
When the officers asked him to clarify, he said he was hit in the groin when someone threw a banana out a car window.
“Officers found no offending banana in the area, so their search turned up ‘fruitless,'” Pitoniak said.
The man said he needed to be taken to the hospital because he would need a note to miss work on Friday.
He was subsequently taken by ambulance to Noble Hospital.
When asked whether this was the most unique call officers have received, Pitoniak said, “It was definitely a different call” adding that he wondered whether the man just wanted a three-day weekend.
