Nutley Man Allegedly Planned To Drop Pumpkin Off Overpass: Police

NUTLEY, NJ — A Nutley police officer allegedly foiled a local man’s plans to drop a pumpkin off the Passaic Avenue railway overpass near Memorial Park earlier this month, authorities say.

Nutley police said that on Dec. 2, an officer saw a 30-year-old local man walking across the overpass carrying a large pumpkin.

“The officer - believing [the man] was about to drop it on the roadway, or a pedestrian on the footpath below - attempted to approach him,” police stated in a news release. “The officer ordered him to stop several times, before [the man] lofted the pumpkin into a wooded area and quickly walked away.”

Police said that once the man reached Maple Place, he got into his car and fled toward Vreeland Avenue where officers stopped him.

The man later told police that he planned to make a “funny video” and that he didn’t know the person yelling at him to stop was a law enforcement officer.

Nutley police arrested the alleged, would-be pumpkin chucker and charged him with obstruction.

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