Posted on 09/07/2015 4:01:12 PM PDT by Sean_Anthony
Weaponized pillows. That's a new one.
I’m not much for “spirit events” - and I’ve never been in the Armed Forces - so don’t take my lack of familiarity as disdain for the idea in general. I suppose a bunch of soldiers-in-training standing around a courtyard whamming each other with pillows could be fun. It’s probably not the sort of thing that makes the Russians cower in fear, but then again maybe they watch it with envy because they only “spirit” in their army is the one of fear over being sent to the gulag if they screw something up. At any rate, the video is less than a minute long, and it gives you a sense of what goes - and also of what could happen if someone decides it would be a grand idea to hide a helmet inside the pillow they’re swinging.
And yeah. Several someones did: (video below)
It’s not as if this is Disco Demolition Night, where you do it once and it’s a complete disaster, and then everyone sits back and says, “How could we have possibly thought that would be a good idea?” No, they’ve done it for years and it’s never been anything but a good time had by all. Until this year, when a so-far-unknown number of participants decided to use the occasion to intentionally and rather brutally inflict injury on others.
I saw the Westpoint pillow fight headline on yahoo, but didn’t read the story because it sounded so gay.
I saw earlier just that they did seem to include mattresses in this “pillow” fight. So yeah, right there I can see people getting knocked to the pavement just from stumbling into those things like bumper cars.
Never mind if there were hidden items.
Does this mean a Pillow ban?
That’s why they are called cadidiots.
It takes more than one person to make a pillow fight, and at some point all those involved agreed to do it this way.Each man was free to think for himself and just walk away.
Next year,they’ll need to appoint Pillow Chaperones to babysit.
Well, that’s it. Street-level retardation has wormed its way into West Point, under the guise of being our best and brightest. Examples best be made of these retards or they won’t stop coming. Thanks, liberal democrats, your progeny is on full display for all to abhor.
This was a sham fight.
We need to get the Geneva Convention modified in such a way as to insure that any potential adversaries use softer pillows ...
What about... The Comfy Chair!
They had helmets and other hard objects in the pillows. A total of 30 cadets were injured, and students reported that the list of wounds included one broken leg as well as dislocated shoulders. The brawl left 24 young cadets with concussions
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