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https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=53&v=UOMb2FOwIgM

West Point has a freshman class pillow fight every year but class of 2019 was too turnt. Unnamed cadets claim there was a broken leg, dislocated shoulders, and one unconscious student taken away in an ambulance. The trouble was largely started by students with hard objects in their pillow cases.

For non-Americans, West Point is a top academy where many of our military leaders are trained.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/05/u...n-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

For generations, freshmen cadets at the United States Military Academy have marked the end of a grueling summer of training with a huge nighttime pillow fight that is billed as a harmless way to blow off steam and build class spirit.

But this year the fight on the West Point, N.Y., campus turned bloody as some cadets swung pillowcases packed with hard objects, thought to be helmets, that split lips, broke at least one bone, dislocated shoulders and knocked cadets unconscious. The brawl at the publicly funded academy, where many of the Army’s top leaders are trained, left 30 cadets injured, including 24 with concussions, according to West Point.

In interviews, cadets who asked that their names not be used for fear of repercussions in West Point’s strictly controlled culture, said the fight had left one cadet with a broken leg and dislocated shoulders in others. One cadet was knocked unconscious and taken away in an ambulance and had not returned to school, they said. But a spokesman for the academy, Lt. Col. Christopher Kasker, said all cadets had returned to duty.

 

[Meffer]

Pillow fights have changed.

 

[Deleted member 1235]

Pillow fights have changed.

no way, i remember having pillow fights and and they always felt like fucking boxing. getting clocked on the side of the head with a huge heavy pillow is painful if you dont expect it

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Pillow fights have changed.

Pillow fights. Pillow fights never change.

 

[Cheeseman Battitude]

https://youtu.be/u2pu0m9iTo4?t=28s

 

[Necromanti]

Cadets said that in at least a few cases helmets became weapons stuffed into pillowcases.

In 2012, a cadet put a lockbox in a pillowcase, injuring others, and in response, the 2013 fight was canceled, cadets said.

At one point, a smoke grenade appeared to go off.

What in the world? Sounds like some of them really went in there intending to hurt someone.

“If you are an officer, you are supposed to make good decisions and follow the rules. You are supposed to mediate when everyone wants to go out and kill everyone,” she said. “The goal was to have fun, and it ended up some guys just chose to hurt people.”

Wonder if that's common.

 

[Lonestar]

someone brought a mattress...

 

[DOWN]

What in the world? Sounds like some of them really went in there intending to hurt someone.

They learn combat strategy early at West Point

 

[davepoobond]

This ain't your grandpappys pillow fight.

It's EXTREEEEMEEEE

 

[Necromanti]

They learn combat strategy early at West Point

If this is how they treat each other, those terrorists won't stand a chance.

 

[hateradio]

Sounds like this is the last year for pillow fights there.

 

[bodyboarder]

These students will go into positions of power right.

 

[Bornstellar]

What in the world? Sounds like some of them really went in there intending to hurt someone.
Wonder if that's common.

* Always carry a bigger stick.

 

[liliththepale]

The secret to pillow fights is using a memory foam pillow.

 

[BlackGoku03]

That looked awesome till you find out there were hard objects in the pillows.

Concussions? From a pillow fight? I said got damn.

 

[Trojita]

Question is will these students be disciplined or secretly praised by the leadership?

 

[dejay]

They should learn to duck down.

 

[Ben Morales]

I will never forget my first and LAST pillow fight. I got clocked with one and I literally saw stars and my ears started ringing. I was also dizzy. It was just like the cartoons!

 

[Brakke]

I had a cousin and a couple buddies go through Annapolis. And people say sailors are--

 

[Amalthea]

Pillow fights have changed.

Can love bloom in a pillow fight?

 

[Wendel Clark]

Why would future military leaders take pillow fights this seriously? And put hard objects in their pillows for added effect? It just makes no sense!

 

[Ushojax]

What in the world? Sounds like some of them really went in there intending to hurt someone.
Wonder if that's common.

Yeah, it's almost as if it were a military training facility.

 

[Messofanego]

They're getting ready to kill other people, so this is not too surprising.

 

[Nokterian]

Community episode is coming to mind was a great episode..why didn't they bring Plush Juggernaut?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyLVl5QjVLs

 

[Goro Majima]

They're essentially college kids so eh, seems on par.

Putting shit in your pillow case is weak though. I'm guessing it was just a few assholes doing that.

 

[mieumieu]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlGFdw6b2EM

looks like I got beaten?

 

[Currygan]

that's basically the Controversial Gaming Opinions thread

 

[Fuzzy]

someone brought a mattress...

It's all good as long as it was a pillow top mattress.

 

[Srey Plaughtered]

 

[_Nemo]

Wow what the fuck. It's no longer a pillow fight if you're putting rock hard shit inside them. Jesus Christ.

 

[Newtype-001]

Normal Pillows already disintegrate your body. I can only imagine the pain

 

[cntr]

They're too angry.

They should get some low pills to stop the pillows.

 

[Currygan]

Wow what the fuck. It's no longer a pillow fight if you're putting rock hard shit inside them. Jesus Christ.

well they're Americans, gotta always up the ante

 

[Frecklestein]

 

[Philippo]

A giant pillow fight it's an amazing idea, but with so many cadets i'm sure the level of violence has to be pretty high.

 

[Wyndstryker]

The point of a pillow fight is to have fun, not to knock everyone out. They took it literally just cause the word "fight" is involved.

 

[Hypron]

What is that guy trying to do holding his light sabre above his head. It's not going to protect him there...

 

[Africanus]

What is that guy trying to do holding his light sabre above his head. It's not going to protect him there...

He was the first casualty of the Clone Wars.


On topic, I would have probably backed out of the fight when I realized there are heavy objects in the pillow. Sun Tzu taught me so.

 

[soundscream]

Attack of the Clones is the worst........THE WORST!!!

 

[SlaughterX]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCNqKrX1sx8

 

[shink]

I really can't imagine what they were thinking when putting stuff in the pillows.

 

[vagabondarts]

Scrub this movie from the Jedi archives. Watching it gives you physical pain, that's how bad it is.

This is the best version: https://youtu.be/gI8aSJBC9u0

 

[Gonzalez]

I love it! This kind of exercise separates the boys, from the men.

Seriously if you can't survive a pound of goose down to the face, how will you be able to survive when Charlie comes at you with a bayonet in one hand, and the still beating heart of your now dead bunk mate Johnny in the other?

 

[shaowebb]

So many pretty colors...doesn't look threatening at all.

 

[karasu]

People are idiots.

 

[marrec]

I'm certain a memory foam pillow would give someone a concussion regardless of hard objects stuffed inside.

 

[nib95]

Scrub this movie from the Jedi archives. Watching it gives you physical pain, that's how bad it is.

This is the best version: https://youtu.be/gI8aSJBC9u0

Lol, that was great.

 

[Interceptor]

https://youtu.be/B7udU74aFdc

 

[joeyjoejoeshabadoo]

someone brought a mattress...

If they bring a pillow, we bring a mattress. If they bring a mattress, we bring a box spring. It's the Chicago way.

 

[Alavard]

Should have used their secret weapon: