It was a night like so many that go through the long winters of the towns of the interior of Buenos Aires. The only dance club in Orense, 550 kilometers southeast of the provincial capital, was about to close.
Late in the morning of this Sunday, the last groups of young people remained in the place, all known, the usual ones. Those who usually spend weekends in the village.
But an argument appeared at the bar that led to an unexpected, unusual event: after a customer was thrown out of the premises for a fight, he returned and tried to throw the building with a cargo truck. He put the vehicle in the head and accelerated against the entrance doors. He did it three times. The sequence was filmed by the boys leaving the bowling alley.
They threw him out of the bowling alley and crashed his truck into the premises, in Orense. Video capture
As Clarín was able to reconstruct, the incident began when the truck driver – who is now under investigation by the decentralized prosecutor's office of Tres Arroyos – rebuked an employee in charge of serving drinks.
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Give me a whiskey. Take, I'll pay you," said the 26-year-old customer, who, according to the store, had several glasses on him.
He handed her 500 pesos and the barwoman explained that the drink cost 1,000 pesos. The man replied that it was too much, that he had been charged half before, and began to scream.
Then he began to rebuke her until the owner of the bowling alley approached and was also attacked. But in this case with more violence. The driver would have hit him with a trumpet that left him lying on the floor.
Several people, including security personnel, managed to get him out of the place. But the young man went home, got on the truck and tried to collapse the access by making a cylinder head maneuver with the chassis.
Violence and lack of control
The episode escalated into violence and lack of control. Because the truck driver went back in to continue the fight. They only managed to restore calm when a police patrol approached. Although it was not easy because the driver was still upset.
The bowling alley "La Palma" is in an old building built almost a century ago. The name refers to an old trade that operated on the same property and was part of the first facilities to market agricultural machinery.
It was in front of the old railway station that ran through the southern part of the province of Buenos Aires. And it linked the ports of Bahía Blanca and Quequén.
It is, for years, the only place of nocturnal recreation of Orense, a town of just over 2,500 inhabitants located on the Atlantic coast and belonging to the Tres Arroyos party.
The violent reaction of the truck driver who did not agree with the price of drinks disrupted the routine of the town's autumn Sunday. The indictment against the person responsible for the unprecedented attack on a building has not yet been determined.
In the police substation they evaluate the injuries caused to the owner of the business and the person in charge of the custody.
There were no other injuries, but some collateral damage: when he abandoned the onslaught, he also ruined other cars parked near Alberti Avenue, which runs parallel and is in front of Route 72, the main access road to the town, more recognized for its resort -Punta Desnudez- that attracts hundreds of tourists who love fishing every summer, nature and immense beaches.
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