When Food Fights Turn Ugly

I knew I didn't like pork chops but this gives me a whole new reason not to!

I've never been injured by any food in a food fight but i know that random egg throwing from moving cars has injured people.
I saw this artical and it just goes to show that food can be used as a weapon but is it actually the food that does the hurting or the containers which hold the food.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2007/06/14/qc-f...

thats the link. read it and see what you think? I bet they get off with a warning. haha .

I've had a jar of peanut butter thrown at me before from a moving car. it hurt like hell. i never really thought of it before but i guess food really can be used as a weapon. flying milk cartons are pretty painful too.

There it is again with the actual container being the damager (not a word i made it up, means to cause damage) not the food itself. A jar of peanut butter would really hurt but from a movin car would really really hurt. poor crash car.

It's sometimes amazing how much force can be transferred through an object of little mass if it acquires enough acceleration. And the heavier the object gets and the faster it travels... the more it's gonna hurt!

I'm sure we've all seen on the news where kids shoot paintball guns out of a car at people on the street. According to Wikipedia (which isn't saying much), paintball guns typically fire at 300 feet per second (fps) because anything over that is deemed unsafe and dangerous. A paintball gun that shoots with a muzzle velocity of 300 fps might hurt, but imagine if it was shot out of a car going 35 miles per hour (mph).

Since the paintball and the car are going in the same direction, the absolute value of the velocity vectors gets added together (for the purposes of this example I am ignoring the fact that there is a small angle of difference between the direction the paintball travels versus the direction the car is traveling depending on how far ahead of yourself you are aiming).

So, driving in the city at 35mph adds almost 52 fps. On a highway at 70mph you are adding a little over 103 fps. You can definitely see where this is going!

And a paintball only weighs like 3 grams! I couldn't imagine getting hit by a jar of peanut butter. That had to hurt like hell.

One time in middle school a kid threw a penny out of the bus window and hit the windshield of a big box truck that apparently didn't have the layered laminate safety glass most cars have today. It must have been tempered glass or a weak spot or something because I didn't know windshields could explode like that! All from a tiny penny. That same kid a week or two later went on to throw one of those little 1 pint milk boxes at a lady pushing a stroller down the sidewalk, and thank god he missed.

As a side note, a year later myself and another kid beat the crap out of the penny thrower (who was older than both of us and quite the bully) because he had gotten so far out of control that he had become abusive to pretty much everyone around him. Now that I am older, I can see that it was probably a lack of parenting that made him that way, but still... He was pretty much a huge douchebag (can I say that here? hehe) and after seeing him hit a girl in the face with a huge school book because he thought it would be funny (wtf, right?), we decided to teach him a lesson at lunch. My week of internal suspension and swollen lip were well worth it. Bastard.

As a side note to the side note, I heard that that kid dropped out of highschool and works at a toll booth nearby. On the several occasions I've traveled across that bridge, I've thought about chucking a penny at his window. I have yet to see him there working, though. I guess two wrongs don't make a right anyways. Whatever.

So Jared, if your sad, angry, emotionally stunted self has been able to find its way to the internet and by some freak chance you are reading this right now: Watch out for flying pennies. I'm sure it'll hurt less than that book did, at least.