A homeless man in Clermont was arrested after allegedly throwing his bicycle into traffic, damaging the hood of a passing Toyota.
A father was driving behind his son when 44-year-old Jesse Lee Wamsley threw his bicycle into traffic on Highway 50 at 9:30 p.m. Sunday, March 29, according to an arrest report from the Clermont Police Department. The bicycle hit his son’s vehicle, a silver Toyota Corolla, as Wamsley continued acting irate in the median of the intersection with Bloxam Avenue.
He then retrieved his bicycle and walked to Key Foods, located at 701 E Hwy. 50, where he waited for law enforcement on the sidewalk. He advised that he had walked across the highway, stopped in the median, got angry about being homeless and threw his bike to the ground. He never explained how his bike hit the son’s vehicle, just that his bike was in the road after he threw it, the report said.
The vehicle was left with two dents and a large scratch on the hood. The father believed it would cost $2,500 or more to fix it. Further research showed a new hood for a Toyota could cost $913, with the cost of paint and installation to be well above $1,000, the report said…