This is the kind of thing you just love to read on a lazy Sunday afternoon: young adults – the future of our country, thank you – exhibiting all the backbone and neural complexity of laboratory-grade protoplasm.
Campus police at East Carolina University said they made one arrest and used pepper spray on some students as officers tried to control a huge snowball fight on campus.
Pepper spray?? To break up a SNOWBALL FIGHT???
Well it was a Really Mean snowball fight:
“It all started in good nature, but then people were throwing them as hard as they could at each other. They were everywhere,” said junior Brandon Davis, noting he got hit in the head.
He said a girl was knocked to the ground after being hit in the face with a snowball thrown from 10 feet away, while another student cried after getting hit in the eye.
Now, living as I do in Florida, it has indeed been some time since I’ve been involved in a snowball fight, but unless you’re packing snow around a big fucking rock, hitting someone with a snowball generally results in nothing more than a bit of a sting. Certainly not tear-worthy. Unless you’re five.
So the students are pussies, and the cops…the cops are pussies, too.
Police said an officer used pepper spray on a group of students that rushed officers trying to make an arrest. Authorities estimate between 200 and 250 people were involved, but no serious injuries were reported.
Pepper spray, on a bunch of squishy student types? I mean, come ON. Sidestep, elbow to the solar plexus, DOWN.
Matt Lunchick, a junior, said he saw an officer tackle and arrest a student after the officer was hit with a snowball in the back.
SIGH. This is the sort of blown-out-of-porportion bullshit that causes our retarded Congresscritters to feel they have to draft legislation to Pruhteck the Peeples. We can’t have them causing each other owies, now can we?
We’re going to need a bigger cheese grater.
Speaking as a person who currently has about 8 inches of snow packed down over my backyard, I have to disagree with you to some degree.
You’re thinking of happy, carefree fluffy snow packed into light little balls that disintegrate upon impact. BUT… If you have the right type of snow, you can pack the snowball into a missile that is the equivalent of a ball of ice. Which is the equivalent of a rock. Which hurts like crap if you’re hit with it.
I’m just sayin’.
jana
January 25th, 2009
@jana:
I did actually think of that, but like I say, it’s been YEARS since I’ve seen any decent accumulation.
And they’re still pussies.
Liberty Girl
January 25th, 2009
Well, yeah, of course they’re pussies. Simply because they are on a college campus means that the odds are quite high that they are a bunch of whiny liberal crybabies who LOVE OBAMA! He’s going to change the world!!
Just not because of the snowball thing.
jana
January 25th, 2009
Ugh. Sorry for the sentence structure in that last post. I’m hungover and I’m not wearing my glasses. So, I’m basically typing in the dark.
jana
January 25th, 2009
It all started with the Nanny-state banning lawn darts. Thankfully, I still have mine from childhood days.
Michael
January 25th, 2009
Well. I think a chunk of ice would hurt. But 250 people… uh… students… getting rowdy can probably feel a bit threatening, but then I hate crowds.
Meanwhile, let’s talk about the whole sidebar ad thingy over to my right: “youthful virility?” Really!!?? Gimme a dozen!
Joan of Argghh!
January 25th, 2009
Oh, but wait, anyone remember Kent State? I was but a spit of kid but yeesh….
Joan of Argghh!
January 25th, 2009
Wait ’til Oboyma’s Civilian Defense Force (or whatever he calls it) catches up with these type of miscreants.
Now, I’m of the opinion, stated by jana up there, that odds are these were a bunch of liberal pussies anyway, so it might be fun to take the kiddies and watch the the on-campus ‘student protests’ in the near future…
B Smith
January 26th, 2009
Don’t snow ball me, bro’.
dogette
January 26th, 2009
If the Congresscritters want to do anything, maybe they should cancel all the “save the earth, stop global warrrrming” laws they keep passing! Then once it warms up like it’s supposed to (it’s a consensus of scientists, don’cha know?), this type of tragic riot will never have to happen again.
Mattexian
January 30th, 2009