BELFAST, Maine — Police are investigating a report that young men in a pickup truck on Saturday night threw a full beer can and yelled obscenities at a group of about 12 tourists who were on a historical ghost walk tour of Belfast.
The can of Bud Light lobbed at the walking tour by the waterfront at about 10 p.m. didn’t hit anyone, but came close, according to police reports. The young men were reportedly driving in a two-tone white Chevy Silverado Z71 extended-cab pickup truck.
Ted Guerry, who leads the nightly Belfast Historical Ghost Walks tours around town, said that he moved to the midcoast city from Atlanta in part because “there was no crime.”
“That’s the first incident that I’ve ever encountered in Belfast,” he said of the beer-can throw. “I was so stunned, I didn’t know what to say to the people.”
He said he had just been telling the tourists, who mostly were visiting from Florida, about why he and his family had moved to Maine when the truck drove by.
“It shed a really bad light on the town,” Guerry said. “People who do stuff like that should think about what it makes them look like … it makes them look like idiots.”
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call the Belfast Police Department at 338-5255.