Newsman fails to beat deadline

Newsman fails to beat deadline

JAKARTA: When a crowd pelted stones at a motorcade of Golkar chairman Akbar Tanjung on Monday, it was "good news" for journalists from all over the world but not for Antonius.

The 23-year-old reporter of Varia Theresia covered the event on bicycle, reasoning that to travel by car would only be trouble with the heavy traffic.

While he was peddling his way to a good vantage point, his Atlantis bike was struck from behind by one of the panicky Golkar cars. His rear wheel was twisted into a figure eight.

Shocked and enraged, Antonius went to the nearby Golkar branch office for compensation as the car that hit him left the scene, Antara said.

Adding insult to injury, Golkar activists in the office accused him of being a provocateur and left him in the cold outside.

Come on Antonius, deadline is around the corner! (pan)