Home break-in
The cruel and frightening incident took place on Saturday evening in David’s small bungalow in Chesterville, Ontario, 50 miles south of Ottawa, though it only came to light when a niece visited her days later; the niece, not David, was the one to call police.
David noticed a person or persons in her home, she could not make out who, and shortly after realizing they were there whoever it was began throwing rotten apples at her. They would throw and then duck behind the kitchen door or a wall before coming back out and throwing more apples.
The 4’11’ and 110 pound woman turned her back but said apples kept striking her and various parts of her home. She does not move quickly anymore and even if she did there was no path for her to escape from the house without having to go past the intruder. So she kept getting hit, over and over.
“I felt something on my back and would turn around and they’d be gone,” she told the Ottawa Citizen, noting they kept throwing and hiding, throwing and hiding. “I could feel them. It didn’t hurt, but you knew something was hitting you.”
She was hit on her back, neck and said some “might have hit my head, too.” Eventually, she said, she wasn’t getting hit any more and realized whoever had been throwing the apples had left.
Police investigate
Her niece, Julia Lovell, spent considerable time, along with some young girls from their local church, cleaning up the brown, rotting apples, finding them on the floor and furniture and splattered against the walls. Lovell is outraged someone would do such a thing and can’t imagine why they would.
The apples were piled up outside by the house, collected up by her aunt, though it is unclear how long they were there and how they were to be disposed of. So David supplied the ammunition used to attack her. Some apples had been thrown at the house, suggesting whoever did it threw apples outside before breaking in.
David owns a clothing store in downtown Chesterville, it’s been in the family for decades, and last week it, too, was broken into, with some items stolen. David still works there a little almost every day and recently lost her keys and wallet so someone may have found them and decided to commit robbery.
At this point police are unable to say if the two incidents are related.