Several drivers in Lakeville have struck large rocks apparently intentionally placed on a road, causing damage to their vehicles and prompting warnings to be on the lookout.
"The first thing was, did I hit a deer? Did I hit a car part?" Anthony Giacone, a junior at Lakeville South High School, said Sunday. "I was just pretty astonished that I hit something."
Giacone was driving home from a football game last Wednesday in Lakeville when he saw four cars ahead of him on the side of the road with hazard lights on.
He was following a friend's car when he spotted a 40- to 50-pound rock in his lane, one of at least two in the road. While his friend swerved around the hazard, Giacone wasn't so lucky.
The rock cracked his bumper and popped the tire on his Toyota Corolla. It cost $350 to replace the tire and rim, he said.
The rocks were found along County Road 8 and Dakota Avenue in Lakeville, near a new housing development called Territory and about 5 miles from Interstate 35.
Giacone said another friend who hit the rock, which measured about 12 inches by 10 inches, said he saw someone rolling the stones out into the street.
An officer from the Scott County Sheriff's Office told him that this was the fourth time rocks or concrete chunks have been reported in the street recently.
