Foodfight!
1. "Man arrested after Thanksgiving food fight"
< http://www.woai.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=A86CB73E-
DBEC-425F-8255-0BC274A188F7 >
"It started with a container of whipped cream, mix in some heated
words, and you've got a food fight that landed one man in jail"
2. "Three injured in retirement home fight over salad"
< http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_881768.html >
"Three pensioners ended up in hospital after a fight over lettuce at
their Florida retirement home"
3. "300 students wage food fight in New York; police called to
restore order"
< http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2004/06/12/496925-ap.html >
"Some 300 teenagers waged a food fight in their school cafeteria so
fierce that educators had to call police to help them restore order"
4. "Entire 8th grade class suspended over messy, meaty food fight"
< http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/news/bizarre/111904_APsn_foodfight.html >
"The meaty melee broke out Wednesday at Geeter Middle School, which
has 637 students in grades six through eight"
5. "Glenwood 8th-graders fling food: Custodians use shovels to clean
up" [expired link]
< http://www.sj-r.com/sections/news/stories/16108.asp >
"What the custodians at Glenwood Middle School were shoveling Wednesday
wasn't snow. It was taco salad, chocolate pudding, milk and other
items - the remnants of a massive eighth-grade food fight in the
school cafeteria"
6. "Food fight suspensions"
< http://news10now.com/content/all_news/?ArID=31833&SecID=83 >
"'We have to deal with them certainly in a strong manner because it's
our obligation to ensure the safety and security of all the students
in the high school and they are entitled to a lunch period that can
be relaxing without the possibility of being hit by food or food or
food containers or being injured as try to escape the food fight'"
7. "Woman stabbed trying to break up fork fight" [expired link]
< http://www.theargusonline.com/Stories/0,1413,83~1971~2150932,00.html >
"A woman was stabbed with a fork Thursday evening when she tried to
break up a fight between two of her relatives"
8. "Former SF cop acquitted in food fight" [expired link]
< http://www.trivalleyherald.com/Stories/0,1413,86~10669~2552831,00.html >
"A former police officer was acquitted Monday of charges linked to
his involvement in an off-duty fight over a bag of steak fajitas
two years ago"
If these stories have put you in the mood to fling food about, then
visit:
< http://www.virtualfoodfight.com/ >
"VirtualFoodFight is the Internet's first food fight (as far as we
know), where you can toss tasty morsels at your friends, family,
enemies or innocent bystanders"
(a John West post)
