It struck silver from the cockatoo and splintered the windscreen of a toy truck threading up the mountain where trees went down to steel.
Both missiles hit the car, which was in a police convoy, and the concrete block, measuring 18 inches by 9 inches, smashed the windscreen and pinned Mr Wilkie to his seat.
Gazing out of his windscreen, Barry Kushner, a local councillor, set me straight: around half these households were now in temporary work, he reckoned; the launch of the bedroom tax had caused mayhem for residents; there was a two-month wait for appointments at the local Citizens Advice bureau.
Leaving England, we go through the Black Mountains, which live up to their name as it gets rainier and rainier as we head further into Wales until all is mist and windscreen wipers.
They were clutching anything blowing across the windscreen and they put someone on who was not ready for it.
A former soldier with America's special forces, who was secretly tasked to the security detail for a group of CIA agents tracking a Pakistani jihadi group, Mr Davis was seen to shoot the first of two the men through his own car's windscreen.
Seconds later, a stone flew through the windscreen, and masked youths with nail-studded baseball bats started smashing the other windows.
Last September Dijital Video ve Imge Teknolojileri, a firm based in Istanbul, launched a computer-vision system that uses a small camera mounted behind a car's windscreen.
Today many Serbs prefer somewhere like Turkey, not because they fear that a Croat with a wartime grudge may smash their windscreen, but because it is cheaper.
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Fixing parking tickets to car windows with bright orange stickers (rather than a piece of paper under the windscreen-wiper) attracts the attention of passing cars and makes drivers less inclined to park illegally, because the risk of being caught seems higher.
