He claimed at the scene there were shouts of "kill the pig" and "get his fucking head on a pole".
He strikes the leader of the bullies, Conny, on the side of the head with a pole, splitting his ear.
One of the balloon's ropes clipped the head of a streetlamp off its pole, sending it crashing down to the crowd below.
All the more shocking when this correspondent for The New York Times, on a trip reporting the 1997 Asian economic crisis, found his way blocked by a procession of young men on motorcycles cheered on by excited villagers, proudly carrying the head of a newly murdered "sorcerer" on a pole.
Then it fell, ricocheted off the head of the pole, and landed behind some mulberry bushes 20 feet away.
A fan walked toward Soldier Field parading the head of a Cheesehead on a 10-foot pole.
John E. Carlstrom of the University of Chicago, Dr. Kovac's mentor and head of a competing project called the South Pole Telescope, pronounced himself deeply impressed.
Czartoryski did not want a Polish rebellion against Russia and knew success would depend more on Western diplomatic intervention than on fighting by the Poles, but he found himself at the head of the Poles' November Insurrection that broke out on Nov. 29, 1830.
The pole depicted dead eagles, herring with lesions, the head of an Exxon executive, upside down.
