First a turkey, now a candy cane. The term "food fight" is taking on a whole new meaning!

For those of us old enough to remember Animal House, we probably rank the "food fight" scene as one of our favorites. Well, in the past couple of weeks, food is becoming a weapon of choice in self-defense.
The latest incident occured in Sacremento, where a man used a lawn ornament candy cane to fight off a man with a knife.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081204/ap_on_fe_st/odd_candy_cane_defense


Apparently, the man's neighbor was intoxicated, and approached him and others waving a kitchen knife. Police say one of those being attacked picked up a two-foot tall plastic candy cane, and held of the suspect until police arrived. He was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon. The guest who took up the candy cane was not charged because police determined he acted in self-defense.

In another incident just a couple of weeks ago, a shopper used a frozen turkey to fight off a man trying to carjack a car from a woman in Garner, NC.
Police said 30-year-old Fred Louis Ervin of Raleigh stole money from a Garner BP gas station before running across the street to a Harris Teeter in Fuquay-Varina. There, he began beating Irene Moorman Bailey while trying to take her car. Other shoppers came to the woman's rescue, including one who hit Ervin with a frozen turkey.

Ervin managed to get away in Bailey's car, but was arrested a short time later.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27894830/


I don't know about you, but both of these sound like scenes that are destined to show up in some form in the next movie about disfunctional families at Christmas. I will be watching for it. Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction.