Pacific Grove officers crack down on banana throwers

What may sound like a scene out of Mario Kart, played out before the eyes of officers in Pacific Grove.

Earlier this month officers were made aware of an individual throwing “slugs of banana” (aka: chunks of banana) out of their car window as they drove the ocean front. The department says they had no suspect information, but the officers were on alert.

And on Saturday evening, an officer was conducting foot patrol in Lover’s Point Park when he witnessed a subject in a vehicle traveling on Ocean View throw something out of the window causing a passerby to have to jump to avoid it.

The officer quickly identified the object as a “slug of banana” and quickly initiated a traffic stop on the suspect vehicle.

The passenger of the vehicle was cited.

Pacific Grove officials with some tips for the public:

-Throwing objects from a moving vehicle is illegal! (23112(a) CVC)

-Throwing objects from a moving vehicle or at a moving vehicle can prove to be fatal. Please be considerate, it’s not funny to harm another person and harming others is unlawful.

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