My friend and I have horrible imaginations. Not horrible as in ‘limited’ but horrible in ‘my god, you sick fuck’ type ideas. We used to imagine what it would be like to spew fake vomit from the front of a rollercoaster so everyone behind us would get splattered by it, drop tennis balls from high places so people would get startled by seeing (or getting beaned by) a tennis ball that seemingly fell from nowhere, etc.
Going to concerts I actually get to see this kind of behavior first time, and in a way it makes me glad I only imagine doing crazy stuff, but have the common sense to reassure myself I would *never * really do it. When my friends and I went to the Summer Sanitarium concert in San Francisco last week, I saw an interesting phenomenon.
People from the upper deck were throwing water baloons in the air, hitting people in the lower deck. They weren’t just dropping them, they were really hurling them. And not just one or two- I would estimate this was perpetrated by a group of friends, who had a backpack full of water balloons, because many, many of the liquid bombs were arcing in the air, 5 or 6 at a time, from many different directions. Even though it was in between bands and people were milling about/looking around for girls to take their tops off, many people got hit without even seeing the water balloons coming at them. When this first happened, I had no idea what was causing it- suddenly there’d be this explosion of water out of nowhere. Then I started keeping an eye on the upper deck of the stadium, since I know people have this tendency to throw crap from up there. I saw some being lobbed, and shouted for people to watch out, but many could not hear me and were pelted by water balloons. I found it disturbing fascinating that someone could hit someone in the back of the head from a distance of roughly 200 feet, being about 60 or so feet above them. I don’t know how fast a water balloon gets flying that distance/height but being hit in the back of the head by one has to be pretty alarming.
I guess in a way we were fortunate that these weren’t the same people that were at the last concert I was at, who tossed flaming debris at people in front of them, and were winging free cd’s like they were shuriken (one glanced off my arm and was moving and spinning so fast it cut my arm open. I look behind me and there is a vertiable BARRAGE of cd’s and little fireballs arcing towards my area :eek: )
