There are certain things one can utter, and others best left to one’s self. There are certain people who believe a threat of violence peppered with a dash of the absurd is no longer a prosecutable offense. Who can really say if this is what 34-year-old Anthony Douglas Donohue was thinking when he called Air Services Australia threatening to blow a helicopter out of the sky with a tomato-firing bazooka?

All the Southport Magistrate’s Court knows so far is that Donohue, disturbed by the constant presence of a helicopter above his Queensland, Australia, home, made a menacing phone call. Sort of menacing. It involved a bazooka and the shooting down of an aircraft. But according to Donohue, his bazooka fired tomatoes.

Police rushed to the home Donohue and his mom live in, but found no bazooka, nor any other weapon. It’s not known whether police checked for produce. Donohue faces two counts of threatening to endanger an aircraft.

» Scott Saxon