woman knocked unconscious in drive-by egg throwing incident

[FirstBornTripletZack]

JamesWN

...? Was it a boiled egg?

That is what I was wondering how can it hurt her if it was just an egg, However if you throw a penny off a skyscraper and it hit's someone on the ground it can kill them. I am guessing throwing an egg from a fast moving vehicle can do just that.

[FirstBornTripletZack]

Serenity Of Crown Royal

Was this one of those fancy decorative eggs?

It does not need to be, more of the speed it hit the woman, like if you throw water balloons off a balcony it can hurt someone or of you throw a penny off a high rise building or skyscraper it can kill someone that it hits.

[Stale Taste]

FirstBornTriplet

JamesWN

...? Was it a boiled egg?

That is what I was wondering how can it hurt her if it was just an egg, However if you throw a penny off a skyscraper and it hit's someone on the ground it can kill them. I am guessing throwing an egg from a fast moving vehicle can do just that.

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[xXFurygeistXx]

JamesWN

...? Was it a boiled egg?

Probably not. Even raw eggs can do some damage. You ever see those stunts where people try to crack as many eggs as they can with their foreheads? They tend to end it mildly concussed and with blood running down their face. Eggs are hard. And if you hit the right spot, such as right behind the ear where the temporal artery is located, you can take a person down with 'em.

[xXFurygeistXx]

FirstBornTriplet

JamesWN

...? Was it a boiled egg?

That is what I was wondering how can it hurt her if it was just an egg, However if you throw a penny off a skyscraper and it hit's someone on the ground it can kill them. I am guessing throwing an egg from a fast moving vehicle can do just that.

Eggs are actually quite hard. There's a reason most folks gotta whack 'em on the side of bowls to crack them. That coupled with WHERE she was hit (behind the ear, where the temporal artery is), it'd lead to a one hit take down.

[Fucc Da Ops]

its not funny getting hit with eggs i almost got hit by an egg on halloween 1yr but i was lucky the ppl that threw it couldnt aim so i didnt get hit but its still not funny. evil

[MegaTurkey]

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JamesWN

...? Was it a boiled egg?

Probably not. Even raw eggs can do some damage. You ever see those stunts where people try to crack as many eggs as they can with their foreheads? They tend to end it mildly concussed and with blood running down their face. Eggs are hard. And if you hit the right spot, such as right behind the ear where the temporal artery is located, you can take a person down with 'em.

The superficial temporal artery is found in front of the ear and is bigger than the posterior auricular artery which is a terminal branch of the external carotid and is unsurprisingly found behind the ear. I guess the biggest potential issue would be an extradural haematoma due to rupture of the middle meningeal artery secondary to a fracture at the pterion but would a simple egg be able to do that? Probably not, even at a push, although some people trip over a curb, fall from standing height and die later in hospital or in this case lose consciousness, whilst others can be hit by a brick or bullseye their windscreen in an RTA and walk away perfectly fine. From what I've seen, luck plays a big part in it. What's interesting is how this head injury has presented - a focal impact with the loss of consciousness typical of diffuse injury.

[Ezara OX14]

What the heck!!!!!!

[Corona Licorice]

JamesWN

...? Was it a boiled egg?

More like frozen...

[Your Baroness]

Unconscious? I guess you could say those eggs forced that woman's consciousness to leave her... emotion_dealwithit shell.

YYYYEEEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!

Okay. That was pretty bad. I didn't have any good knock out jokes. Would knock knock jokes be appropriate then? emotion_facepalm Of course not. Knock knock jokes are never appropriate. Darn.

[xXFurygeistXx]

MegaTurkey

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JamesWN

...? Was it a boiled egg?

Probably not. Even raw eggs can do some damage. You ever see those stunts where people try to crack as many eggs as they can with their foreheads? They tend to end it mildly concussed and with blood running down their face. Eggs are hard. And if you hit the right spot, such as right behind the ear where the temporal artery is located, you can take a person down with 'em.

The superficial temporal artery is found in front of the ear and is bigger than the posterior auricular artery which is a terminal branch of the external carotid and is unsurprisingly found behind the ear. I guess the biggest potential issue would be an extradural haematoma due to rupture of the middle meningeal artery secondary to a fracture at the pterion but would a simple egg be able to do that? Probably not, even at a push, although some people trip over a curb, fall from standing height and die later in hospital or in this case lose consciousness, whilst others can be hit by a brick or bullseye their windscreen in an RTA and walk away perfectly fine. From what I've seen, luck plays a big part in it. What's interesting is how this head injury has presented - a focal impact with the loss of consciousness typical of diffuse injury.

Well, if she had been drinking (she was in front of a bar, so it's possible), that probably added to it.
And I doubt a chicken egg could cause a fracture. Certainly bad bruising and lacerations should it break, but it'd break before it'd fracture bones. Now if it had been an ostrich egg, that's another story. I could believe a hairline fracture from an ostrich egg. Gotta take a drill to those suckers to crack 'em open. But I doubt they were throwing ostrich eggs. You want bang for your buck, and ostrich eggs are big and expensive and don't fit in small half dozen cartons very well. Plus you'd have to toss 'em like a football and just all around not the best choice for drive by egging.

[FuzzyOreos]

That is brutual

[Rosa Imperatrix]

When they find them, they need to be arrested. This s**t is NOT funny.