NC campus cops arrest student in snowball melee

[The Straight Story]

NC campus cops arrest student in snowball melee
Jan 22 04:09 PM US/Eastern

GREENVILLE, N.C. (AP) - Authorities at a North Carolina college say a huge snowball fight got out of control, forcing campus police to use pepper spray on some students to contain the rowdy crowd.

Police were called to a dormitory at East Carolina University three times Tuesday as hundreds of students pelted each other with snow, The Daily Reflector of Greenville reported. The college is in a part of the state which doesn't get snow often, but a rare storm dropped several inches on campus that day.

Police said some students were getting too aggressive and an officer used pepper spray on a group that rushed officers trying to make an arrest.

Junior Brandon Davis said "it all started in good nature, but then people were throwing them as hard as they could at each other." Junior Matt Lunchick said an officer chased and arrested a student after being hit in the back with a snowball.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D95SE35G3&show_article=1

At least they weren't using my balls :)

When we outlaw snowballs...

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Oh my. That is sort of sad.

[nc4bo]

2. Those crazy kids.

"Junior Matt Lunchick said an officer chased and arrested a student after being hit in the back with a snowball."

So was Matt hit in the back with offending snowball or was the officer? Oh-oh :rofl:

[redirish28]

3. Snow ball fight gets out of control that pepper spray is needed? sorry I can't see it.

[eShirl]

4. wait, this isn't from The Onion?

[leftyclimber]

5. We had something similar happen at my undergrad U. my freshman year.

Two of the dorm complexes got in a snowball fight across a street that ran through campus, a couple of people decided it would be smart to drive through hundreds of undergraduates throwing snowballs, eventually someone called the cops. Arrests followed (although no pepper spray IIRC; that was over 20 years ago).

The whole time I was in college the press called it the Agate Street Riot. :eyes:

[taterguy]

6. All students involved should be keel hauled

Or some other suitable punishment for attending a school whose mascot is a pirate.

[rurallib]

10. Walk the plank, matey!

[flvegan]

7. This is why all college students should be armed.

Snowball fight gets out of hand, you can self police your own.

Or something.

[The Straight Story]

8. Indeed - tasers, pepper spray, guns - and snow balls

Now there is a world's most amazing video I could watch :)

[Minimus]

9. A lesson I learned from my mother at an early age:

I was out throwing snowballs with other kids in the neighborhood and after getting hit a couple of times I went inside crying. My mother told me not to come in crying to her - if I was going to throw snowballs at other kids then I had to expect to get hit by snowballs too.

I learned my lesson about dishing it out and taking it - and I don't think throwing snowballs at a police officer would be wise.

[TlalocW]

11. My father was expelled from school

In the late 1930s or early 1940s because he and a buddy locked the principal out of the school then pelted him with snowballs. If he had apologized, he would have been let back in, but for some reason, he didn't.

TlalocW