I'll bet that the tomatoes were the big red juicy kind with no blemishes, sweet & crisp - grown that way with the help of a heli ag pilot in the lockyer valley who spends his day dodging wires.
If this bloke is ever laying in a ditch after flipping his car I hope the EMS heli crew lean out the door & throw tomatoes at him.
Having said that, if the report is accurate & the machine was "hovering over his home" the pilot needs more than tomatoes thrown at him!