quote:Peel police have arrested three Mississauga teenagers on charges of aggravated assault after a 12-year-old girl was seriously injured by a flying egg. The girl was walking the Mineola Rd. and Lochlin Trl. area around 10 p.m. when an egg thrown from a passing vehicle struck her in the right eye, Const. Craig Platt said.
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The second victim was uninjured, but the damage to the girl’s eye could be permanent, Platt said.
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The worst part is there have been enough of these incidents that the injuries could be studied.
How does throwing eggs at people translate into fun? Or does a person have to be a certain age for it to make sense?
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What I don't understand is how a person could get that badly injured from getting an egg thrown in their eye. Aren't eggs pretty fragile?
- Pseudo "egg on her face" Croat
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quote:Originally posted by Pseudo_Croat: What I don't understand is how a person could get that badly injured from getting an egg thrown in their eye. Aren't eggs pretty fragile?
(Edited to remove extreme snark.) I think it's because broken eggshells are sharp and hard and forced into the eye by the weight of the egg.
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quote: Larry Benjamin, from the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, said: "If the egg doesn't break on impact, I imagine that its is like being hit by a heavy stone.
"Most people would imagine an egg would break quite easily against the bones of the skull, but if the point lands on the eye, it could cause huge damage."
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Oh my. I had no clue eggs could be dangerous like that. It makes sense if you think about it though. Maybe I should add this to the "Things you didn't know" thread, I can't remember exactly what it's called.
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DH spent two weeks in the hospital under heavy sedation after getting hit in the eye with an egg. MIL said he had an 80% bleed (I really don't know what that means) and they thought he would lose the eye. Apparently keeping him immobile while the pressure in the eye increased and then decreased did the trick.
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It also depends on the eggs. The kind you get in the store are quite fragile. My sister's hen lay these incredibly strong eggs (lots of calcium in their diets?) that you can almost hit with a hammer and they won't break (fun watching her cook with them). If someone were to throw those eggs, it would do more than put out an eye.
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Hopefully she doesn't get a case of "shell shock" after this incident.
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quote:Originally posted by Pseudo_Croat: What I don't understand is how a person could get that badly injured from getting an egg thrown in their eye. Aren't eggs pretty fragile?
- Pseudo "egg on her face" Croat
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quote: Shards of eggshell lodged in her right eye and were removed in hospital. It will be weeks before doctors know whether the youngster will lose her eye or have permanent eyesight damage.
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Yeah, but aren't eggshells too fragile to scratch anything or stick in anything? People don't use the term 'walinking on eggshells" for nothing.
- Pseudo_Croat
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quote:Originally posted by Pseudo_Croat: Yeah, but aren't eggshells too fragile to scratch anything or stick in anything? People don't use the term 'walinking on eggshells" for nothing.
- Pseudo_Croat
Egg shells are brittle, much like glass is. Tiny fragments of egg shell can easily cause soft tissue damage.
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quote:Originally posted by Pseudo_Croat: Yeah, but aren't eggshells too fragile to scratch anything or stick in anything? People don't use the term 'walinking on eggshells" for nothing.
- Pseudo_Croat
Eyeballs are a lot more fragile than eggshells.
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quote:Originally posted by Pseudo_Croat: Yeah, but aren't eggshells too fragile to scratch anything or stick in anything? People don't use the term 'walinking on eggshells" for nothing.
You've got to take velocity into account, as well. The egg was thrown from a moving van, and it drove by fast enough that apparently the mother didn't even see what had happened. Heck, even a water balloon can rupture your eye if it hits you hard enough. Add to that little shattering pieces of egg shell and--ouch.
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quote:Originally posted by Pseudo_Croat: Yeah, but aren't eggshells too fragile to scratch anything or stick in anything? People don't use the term 'walinking on eggshells" for nothing.
- Pseudo_Croat
Apparently not, unless the doctors are lying about the eggshell fragments being lodged in her eye.
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Lots of things are very fragile, but if they come into contact with a sensitive area (such as the eye) they can do real damage, this goes double for sharp objects (glass comes to mind, or ice).
I feel for this girl, when I was young a firework at a show went off course and exploaded near me, I had to wear an eye patch for a while, it sucked (perfect vision now though, so here's hoping).
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quote:Originally posted by Pseudo_Croat: Yeah, but aren't eggshells too fragile to scratch anything or stick in anything? People don't use the term 'walinking on eggshells" for nothing.
- Pseudo_Croat
It sounds like you are saying this story must be fabricated. Why are you so dubious when there has been more than enough information already provided to reassure you that this can and does happen?
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quote:Originally posted by Pseudo_Croat: What I don't understand is how a person could get that badly injured from getting an egg thrown in their eye. Aren't eggs pretty fragile?
- Pseudo "egg on her face" Croat
Paper is pretty fragile as well, but I have had some nasty paper cuts. I can totally see how eggs, snowballs etc can cause serious damage, especially to the eye.
When you add speed and force, many things become dangerous that aren't usually. Jumping in the water isn't dangerous, but jump off the Golden Gate Bridge, and you're dead.
quote:Originally posted by Pseudo_Croat: Yeah, but aren't eggshells too fragile to scratch anything or stick in anything? People don't use the term 'walinking on eggshells" for nothing.
You've got to take velocity into account, as well. The egg was thrown from a moving van, and it drove by fast enough that apparently the mother didn't even see what had happened. Heck, even a water balloon can rupture your eye if it hits you hard enough. Add to that little shattering pieces of egg shell and--ouch.
I imagine velocity would play a big part. The egg was thrown from a movingvehicle. I had my car window cracked by an egg thrown at my vehicle as I was driving. Egg shells are designed to protect what's inside and are really quite strong, especially on the ends. If you put egg shell halves on a table, pointy ends up, and lay books on them you'll realise just how much they can take before they crack.
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When I was egged a couple of months back (I posted about it in rantidote- it was also thrown from a moving vehicle) the egg hit my index finger of my left hand, which was holding my purse at the time. That finger ended up with a lump and several very tiny cuts. If an egg could do that to my finger, I can just imagine the damage it could do to a much mroe vulnerable eye.
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