Halloween Eggings Kill, Injure Dozens of New Yorkers

Innocent Halloween prank, or homicide evidence?

Teenagers, already the lowest form of life on the planet, are at their absolute worst on Halloween. But we never knew their insufferable shenanigans were so deadly, too. The Times has reviewed newspaper accounts of Halloween deaths, and reports that since 1984 at least 24 people "have been seriously wounded or killed in stabbings, shootings, beatings or accidents sparked by egg-throwing confrontations around Halloween." Back in 1998, a data entry clerk was shot in the head by egg-tossing teens after he got out of his car to confront them. And in 2008 an egg-tossing teen tragically fell to his death off a roof when his target chased him.

Eggings are so out of control in Queens on Halloween that cops in some precincts ask merchants not to sell eggs or shaving cream to minors during Halloween week. And the Juniper Park Civic Association even distributes “No Eggs” posters to stores. But how can a civic association's boring old PSA possibly compete with the negative influence of teen idols like the Beastie Boys, who have recorded not one but two songs that glorify egg throwing as "cool" and "dope"? Here they are during a recent television appearance inciting impressionable youths with their controversial song "Egg Raid on Mojo" (It starts at the 5:35 mark.) Tipper Gore, we need you now more than ever.

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By John Del Signore in News on October 28, 2010 10:11 AM

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Reflect

This happend to me but twas a miss.. In denver waitung for

The bus back from the gym, i was outside the shelter but its

A fast street and hit the shelter,

Ahh anothe blessed faucet of humanity..

40 to 60 mph eggs are no joke, next theyll start hard boiling them.

Wza

I beat up a kid once for hitting me with an egg.

Felt good too.

miquonranger03

"Teenagers, already the lowest form of life on the planet, are at their absolute worst on Halloween."

Try replacing the word "teenagers" with "black people" or any other minority group and see how far you get.

robingee

Ever since I was a kid I remember local stores not selling shaving cream or eggs to kids on Halloween or Gate Night (ie Mischief Night, Goosie Night, Devil's Night...)

Eggs do damage to car paint, too. Best to only shove them into mailboxes.

Phil

I forget the year possibly 1987 or 1988, but a teen on the block I used to live near the corner of Smith and Butler Street was stabbed with an ice pick for throwing an egg and the story was he died later though I never found out for sure . . .

Cannibal

What about those Halloween leggings? Moose knucke kills!!!

nicemarmot

I was in Vegas many years ago - not on Halloween - walking down the Strip with some friends. A van full of townie kids came down the strip at high speed chucking eggs. One of them hit my friend in the eye and severely damaged his eye. The eggshell literally sliced his eyeball right open. It was gruesome. We had to spend the rest of the night in the emergency room. The doctors told us he came close to losing the eye.

Eggings sure are innocent, all right. Somehow I feel no pity for any "kid" who gets shot when his target doesn't appreciate being egged.

What happened to TPing, anyway? That's what we did when I was a kid.

hotstepper

what a waste of delicious protein.

militza

hotstepper!

woodendesigner

Natural selection at work.

Kojak

Reminds me of my Elementary/JHS/HS days. Ahh memories.

The always shifting center of gravity within the egg & the wide range of caustic splatter on the target makes it the perfect projectile for throwing. But I usually limit my targets to houses, cars & trucks, not people.