Sun, 24 Sep 2006

'Egg on your face' may be more dangerous than you think

A classic "Study in Stupidity"! How much "research" does it take to figure out that an egg tossed into somebody's eyeball can hurt them?

As the party conference season gets under way in the UK, research in Emergency Medicine Journal shows that lobbing raw eggs at people as a harmless form of protest or prank can actually result in serious eye injury. Between November 2004 and December 2005 researchers at one specialist department monitored more than 18,000 patients requiring eye treatment.

(link) [EurekAlert!]

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