Charges filed in Minnesota dropped bowling ball case!

(Fairmont, Mn.)-- Four boys and an 18-year-old man are charged for an incident in which someone dropped a bowling ball off an overpass onto Interstate 90 in August, seriously injuring a truck driver from Montana.A 17-year-old Fairmont boy was charged with first, second and third-degree felony assault and first-degree criminal damage to property, along with conspiracy to commit. He allegedly dropped the bowling ball that hit 54-year-old Theodore Maki of Missoula, Montana. He has since recovered from his injuries.18-year-old Andrew Fellersen of Fairmont told authorities he was with the boys when they stole a bowling ball off a fence post from a backyard in Fairmont and drove to the overpass. He says they were rolling the ball around in the early morning hours of August 26th as Fellersen told them about someone who had thrown a cinder block off the bridge and hit a trailer.Fellersen says the group first dropped the ball off the bridge to see if it would crack, then went down and retrieved it and decided they'd try to drop it on the trailer of a semi.Fellersen told authorities they saw a semi approaching and tried to time the drop, but the 17-year-old dropped the ball too early.The other boys charged are a 17-year-old from Fairmont, a Grenada teen who is now 18 and a 15-year-old.

(Story from the Associated Press.).