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)