Used Hypodermic Needle Thrown From Car Sticks South Boston Man
SOUTH BOSTON (CBS) – A South Boston man is having a sudden health scare after someone hit him with a used syringe and needle.
Bob Rowland was bending down changing the tire on his car on East 7th Street Thursday when another car passed by and a used hypodermic needle was thrown from the window.
It stuck Rowland in the back.
"There was nobody on the street and there was a syringe laying right beside me and a station wagon took off real quick," he told WBZ-TV.
Rowland picked up the needle and it had blood in it. It had also broken the skin on his back.
He ended up in the emergency room for tests.
Rowland received a Hepatitis B vaccine Friday as a precaution and he may need an HIV cocktail shot next, depending on his test results.
"It does anger me because he probably could do this to other people, kids. Maybe he has a bad disease and figured, 'I'm going to give it to other people," he said.
"Maybe the guy had madness in him and maybe he does this to other people."
Rowland didn't get the license plate of the car where the needle came from, but he did see it was a light blue, older model Taurus or Sable station wagon.