re: Had a drunk a-hole throw a thirty+ pound bag of beads at a lady yesterday

back in the early aughts I rode in Endymion for six years, nearly every year someone got in trouble for throwing/tossing/dropping full bags. Most of the time it was a guy trying to get a bunch of beads to somebody he knew, but at least on our float, we did talk about it and we did have a "policy" about not doing it from the top of the float.

I rode on the bottom so you could just hand the big stuff over.

shite happens when riders get drunk but getting somebody hurt over plastic beads is the opposite of a good time

If it was 30 lbs it wasn't flying through the air.

Send your letter to ed. Wasting your time and I don't believe you.

I just got off the phone with Ed.


He doesn't care.

A common practice is to throw a small amount of beads at someone's feet, then when they bend over to pick up the beads, you throw a full bag, full speed, at the back of their head.

You know what's a real bitch to catch? A cabbage. Damn those are deadly. I found out when I was a little kid that they aren't just like heads of lettuce. Not at all.

quote:

---

A common practice is to throw a small amount of beads at someone's feet, then when they bend over to pick up the beads, you throw a full bag, full speed, at the back of their head.

---

About as common as piss balloons in Tiger Stadium

Someone threw a bag like that (not 30 lbs, but probaby 5-10) to my son, who is in a wheelchair. I think they were trying to be nice, but if my SO had not been right there, it would have hit him in the face. Throwing whole bags shouldn't be a thing. Especially at people who either can't catch them or can't move out of the way.

I'm Ed, and I approve this message

On the other hand,I never did understand the practice of just throwing bags of stuff unwrapped, even the small ones. It just seems to be lazy and defeats the purpose somewhat.

In 2005, I saw exactly what you are worried about happen. A girl, probably high school or early college, was standing on an ice chest at Bacchus. She turned around for half a second to talk to someone behind her, and the very same 30 lb bag came flying from the float and nailed her in the head. I was able to help catch her from hitting the ground, but she still took quite a hit from the bag. The funniest part of the whole thing was when we all looked up to see what hit her, and a little black kid ran up and stole the bag right in front of all of us.