Eggs are not for throwing
Filed under: Health and Safety
I'll never forget Halloween of 1985. Some friends and I dressed up as various Star Trek characters, and although we were a little long in the tooth for it (I was 15), we went out Trick-Or-Treating. We were walking down a dark sidewalk past a school when a car slowed down on the road right by us. All at once we heard a loud CRACK!, the car drove off in a squeal of tires, and our friend Emily was holding her leg and crying, "Oh! I think they shot me!!"
Turns out, it wasn't blood she felt, but egg yolk. She'd been egged. It really hurt her, and we were all scared.
Nicole, over at Slashfood, brings this article to our attention. A team of UK researchers studied 13 people with eye injuries caused by thrown eggs and decided that the results were significant enough to issue a public health message. Eight of the 13 had severe damage, such as retinal tears and increased eye pressure, which can cause blindness. The researchers also said that in the US in 1988, two people lost their vision after being hit with thrown eggs.
Halloween is coming. If your kids are big enough to go out without you, let them know that throwing eggs isn't a harmless prank. Tomatoes, on the other hand. . . . (I'm kidding!!)
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