Source: SikhNet News
http://www.sikhnet.com/Sikhnet/news.nsf/RecentNewsHTML/0BFE0D8EA8BD1292872571690065A446!OpenDocument
On May 8, 2006 SikhNet News reported, "It's hard to beat a morning walk. The cool air, the freshness of spring and the topper, getting pelted in the back by half a roll of duct tape.
Hate crime or the idiot factor? You decide.
Parmjit Kaur Pannu was taking her daily walk in her neighborhood close to the intersection of Hosking and Akers roads, near Ridgeview High.
The 63-year-old Pannu is a Sikh and was dressed in traditional Punjabi dress, a kameez -- a long shirt called a salwar -- a pajama looking bottom and a chunni, a long scarf, worn over the shoulder. She lives with her husband Avtar Pannu and her son Jaspal Pannu and his wife and young family.
Her son Jaspal drives a truck for Frito-Lay. Avtar, her husband, works at Grimmway Farms. They've been in Bakersfield for 21/2 years.
Tim Everton, a neighbor of Pannu's, saw her get pelted by the duct tape. 'She was about to turn the corner of the street we live on when a shiny red pickup slowed to allow the passenger enough of a chance to pitch an object at her and hit her in the back (it turned out to be a roll of duct tape) and also to allow this old woman, and anyone else present, to hear the stream of obscenities being hurled,' Everton wrote... There are more than 25,000 Sikhs in Kern County, according to Nazar Kooner, a local farmer in Arvin. "