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.
Ha!
Cripes. No more ice served on planes now.
In Boston they just shoot you.
Don’t go where the Huskies go!
Snowball fights in New Haven were always a good chance to beat the crap out of a Yalie.
In Oshkosh WI the cops used to just block off the streets and wait until everyone was tired. The cops would come under fire as they tried to set up the road blocks around campus.
Ahhhh Good Times….
Sheesh, Greenville must be some boring ass place if the cops got nothing better to do than this. Way back when, a snowball fight would’ve never got them out of the doughnut shop.
Obviously, the cop felt threatened. I hope he had a bullet proof… wait… a snow ball proof…. no… a vest…. no… I got it. I hope he had a t-shirt on.
The kid was wearing one of those ‘Don’t tase me, bro’ shirts…
#6 was probably a campus cop, so no, he had nothing better to do.
I used to work with a guy who graduated from ECU. The fact that it got out of hand doesn’t surprise me. ECU is a drinking man’s college.
I’ve seen this happen at my campus. Cops are psychopathic control freaks. Heaven forbid student have some rare fun and get into a snow fight.
Now imagine he pulls out a gun and shoots him in the back at the end. That is exactly what happened in Oakland.