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Carrot causes injury at Oktoberfest
Perhaps he should have taken cake instead.
This year's Oktoberfest recorded its first casualty when an American visitor to the beer celebration scored a direct hit with a carrot, striking a Chilean woman in the eye, Munich police said.
The man is reported to have hurled the 15-centimetre projectile at the woman in the excitement of the moment on the first day of the event on Saturday.
The 29-year-old victim needed treatment after incurring a bruise under the eye. Her assailant was detained but later released on bail.
In an attempt to curb the drunkenness that has characterised the event in recent years, the organisers have been encouraging visitors to bring food with them, an old tradition that appears to have backfired in this case.
The man is reported to have hurled the 15-centimetre projectile at the woman in the excitement of the moment on the first day of the event on Saturday.
The 29-year-old victim needed treatment after incurring a bruise under the eye. Her assailant was detained but later released on bail.
In an attempt to curb the drunkenness that has characterised the event in recent years, the organisers have been encouraging visitors to bring food with them, an old tradition that appears to have backfired in this case.
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