Store Clerk Bombarded with Eggs over 50 Cents

An unknown man bombarded an employee of a downtown deli with eggs early Thursday morning, after claiming to be shortchanged 50 cents, according to police reports. 

Around midnight on Thursday a man—together with a 26-year-old Jersey City man and a 30-year-old Hoboken man—walked into a deli at First and Willow to buy cigarettes, police said.

The man handed the employee of the store $8.50 for a pack of Newports. When the man didn't get any change back he allegedly became belligerent, police said. When the store clerk told the man he had handed him exact change, he wouldn't listen, police said. 

The victim, a 42-year-old man from Bayonne, told police that the man returned a few minutes later with eggs and started throwing them at him.

The employee of the store said he had never seen the man before, according to the police report on the matter.

No arrests were made.