BEATEN ABOUT THE HEAD AND BEATEN ABOUT THE HEAD AND NECK WITH A BLUNT POP CAN. Momma Bear sends along this Times
article about citizens in Florida learning to defend themselves against
terrorism by land or air. At one point the author suffers a writerly sprain
commenting on advice to airline passengers to keep a can of soda handy for
use as a bludgeon:

If the Coke can is not hurled at the hijacker, it can add critical
mass to a blow to the head or neck. There is no irony intended, and none
seen, in using the ultimate symbol of American cultural imperialism as the
last line of homeland defence.

Groan. No, we wouldn't look at it like that. Sometimes a weaponized can of pop is just a weaponized can of pop.

Posted by Moira Breen at January 21, 2002 01:49 PM