A truck driver was arrested after attacking a fellow driver with a metal gauntlet during an argument at a New Mexico truck stop.
It happened at the Flying J truck stop off 98th and I-40 in Albequerque, last Thursday.
According to KOB-4, 60 year old Pennsylvania truck driver Stephen Meyer approached another truck driver that was parked in the lot and asked him to turn down his radio. When the driver refused, Meyer retrieved a metal gauntlet from his cab and attack him with it.
The victim, who was only identified as “James” was bleeding from his mouth when officers arrived.
An officer who responded to the scene said, “I asked Stephen what he had hit James with and he produced a metal gauntlet from the cab of his semi-truck. Stephen stated that he used the gauntlet for jousting.”
“James touched one of his front teeth and moved it forward and back. I asked James if he needed medical assistance and he said no,” the police report read.
A metal gauntlet was used as armor during medieval times, but it this scenario police say it was used as a deadly weapon.
Meyer was arrested and is being on $25,000 bond.