Man Hit In Head With Snowball Thrown From Hummer - Suing Driver

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A man who claims he was pelted in the head by a snowball during January's snowstorm wants the guy who allegedly threw it to pay -- $4,350 plus attorney's fees.

In the suit filed in Multnomah County Circuit Court Friday, William Elich is suing Greg Scott Ely for allegedly rocketing a snowball from the rented Hummer he was driving as he passed Elich on Jan. 16.

Elich says he was about to enter Jake's Grill near Southwest 10th Avenue and Alder Street for an early lunch when Ely came by in the Hummer with a "dashboard lined with snowballs." The snowball that hit Elich broke the left lens of his glasses and bruised his eyeball, he says.

Elich said the loss of his "progressive bifocal glasses" forced him to miss work as a private investigator for eight to 10 days while he waited for a new pair of glasses. He's asking for $2,500 for loss of wages, $225 for new glasses and $1,625 for non-economic damages.

Reached by phone, Ely says Elich has the wrong guy.

"I didn't throw a snowball at anyone," said Ely, adding that he chuckled at Elich's claims at first. Ely said he doesn't see how Elich thinks he could manage to fit his arm through the small window of the Hummer and throw a snowball while navigating the city's icy streets.

"Have you seen the window of an H3?" said Ely, a stone mason who lives in North Portland.

Nonetheless, Elich, 46, says Ely, 32, picked the wrong person to target with his juvenile action.

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"Have you seen the window of an H3?" said Ely, a stonecutter who lives in North Portland.

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