No cabbage hurling? Parade injuries prompt call for restrictions(pictures)

NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune ^ | 11/3/15 | Diana Samuels, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune

[BBell]

Next year's St. Patrick's and Irish-Italian parades in Metairie could bring a reduced risk of being smacked in the head with a cabbage. The edibles could still be airborne, but float riders would be required to soften their touch in throwing them.

A proposal coming before the Jefferson Parish Council on Wednesday (Nov. 3) would require that all "fruit, vegetables, soap and other non-perishable food items" be tossed underhand at the parades. The reason: Too many people were getting hurt by flying food, said Sean Burke, the administration's director of citizen affairs. He recalled two incidents that led to a broken nose and a broken finger in the past few years. And someone was hurling cabbages in 2015 with a lacrosse stick, Burke said.

-snip-"You get all kinds of stuff," Burke said. "We get carrots, potatoes, bananas, oranges, apples. You name it, they've got it out there. Ramen noodles, even Irish Spring soap."

[BBell]

Where I live the cabbages are handed out of tossed underhand. The idea is you get all your veggies and go home and make corned beef and cabbage.

There are lots more picks at link.

The onion toss!

And the catch!

19 / 32 Hats and jello shots at the annual St. Patrick's Day parade in Metairie on Sunday, March 15, 2015. (Photo by Julia Kumari Drapkin, Nola.com | The Times-Picayune)

29 / 32 A woman takes careful aim with her garters at the annual St. Patrick's Day parade in Metairie on Sunday, March 15, 2015. (Photo by Julia Kumari Drapkin, Nola.com | The Times-Picayune)

The annual St. Patrick's Day parade in Metairie makes its way from Rummel High School to Old Metairie Road on Sunday, March 15, 2015. (Photo by Julia Kumari Drapkin, Nola.com | The Times-Picayune)

[ClearCase_guy]

There’s a massive national conspiracy to remove the traditional elements of St Patrick’s Day parade and just let all the fruits take over.

[BBell]

Now that was funny. There is some truth to it though.

[McGruff]

When cabbages are outlawed only outlaws will have cabbages.

[dp0622]

Those crazy Irish. We Italians had to move to Staten Island and show them the right way to do things :)

[Patriot Babe]

Sombreros and Ponchos? LOL

I do know alot of Mexicans do have Irish ancestry in them.

[BBell]

We are not very politically correct here.

[combat_boots]

“Too many people were getting hurt by flying food”

“As God as my witness, I didn’t know turkeys couldn’t fly.”

[BBell]

Oh the humanity!

[DannyTN]

I’m thinking if NewYorkers would arm themselves with cabbages and onions, they might be able to discourage the gays from taking over the parade there.
You have the right to march. But people have the right to will pummel you with produce.

[Rebelbase]

The farms in my area grew some huge cabbages this year. I would hate to get knocked in the head by one of those four pound monsters.

[BBell]

We have a lot of Italians down here. Some even speak with that New England accent and these people have been here for generations. I know people with surnames such as Gambino,Rizzo,Gatto,Tattaglia,Costello,Barzini(he's an old guy that lives up the street from me), giovanni(He's a damn good plumber).

Carlos Marcello ran the French Quarter. Louis Prima was born and raised in New Orleans.

My neighbor behind me looks like he is straight out of The Godfather or The Sopranos. I don't recall his last name but his first is Paul.

[dp0622]

Italians were there much earlier than us up North.

Those are great names :)

Someone came over to me and asked me if i was a gangster at my last wake.

I was embarrassed. I was a crook in my youth, but never a gangster!!!

knew plenty though.

comes in handy when you run a vending route.