25 Jun Philadelphia Phillies Fan Hit In The Face By Flying Hotdog Shot From Cannon

When you attend a baseball game it’s not unusual to have to watch out for the occasional home run or a foul ball that might land in the crowds. You don’t normally need to watch out for flying hotdogs, that is unless you’re at a Philadelphia Phillies game.

On Monday night, Kathy McVay was sitting behind home plate when she was hit in the face with a flying hotdog shot from a cannon. Her glasses flew off her face and she was left bloody and bruised from the incident.

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It has become a regular home game ritual for the Philidelphia Phillies mascot, Phillie Phanatic, to don an apron and chef’s hat and drive around the field on a mobile hotdog launcher. He then fires hotdogs, wrapped in duct tape, at the crowd from his launcher.

McVay, who is suffering from a shoulder injury that requires surgery, was unable to swat the incoming hotdog away and, as a result, was pelted in the face. The impact was strong enough that she was taken to the hospital for a scan to ensure she didn’t have a concussion.

McVay did not have a concussion but she did have a hematoma in one of her eyes along with swelling and bruising of her face. She says she isn’t planning to sue the stadium but does want to warn other fans about her ordeal.

“Just to be aware, because you never know,” she said. “I understand a baseball, but not a hotdog.”

The stadium did give her free tickets to an upcoming game, which McVay does plan to attend. Hopefully, she’ll bring someone with her who can keep watch for any more wayward hotdogs heading in her direction.

If you’re a sports fan, hot dogs might not be the only flying food you’ll have to keep an eye out for. Apparently, the University of Nebraska-Omaha had a taco cannon, and yes, it’s exactly what you think it is.

Instead of firing t-shirts, local Omaha restaurant Voodoo Taco has loaded a jerry-rigged $1500 t-shirt cannon to fling foil-wrapped tacos into the stands at hungry fans. According to Eric Newton, owner of Voodoo Taco, the first few test fires were a disaster, but now the taco cannon is all ready to go!

It’s capable of sending the tacos high into the air and into the stands in the university’s new hockey, volleyball, and basketball stadium. Newton also tells fans not to worry since the tacos are soft shelled.

However, apparently, Newton isn’t the first person to have invented the taco cannon. That honor goes to Austin, Texas’s Fun Fun Fun Festival for coming up with the idea in 2012. Tacos were launched into the crowds at the music festival. No word on any taco-related injuries.

So now that we have hot dog and taco cannons, what’s next? Pizza cannons? Though despite a disc shape being rather convenient to flying through the air, something tells me sending hot cheese and pepperoni into unsuspecting crowds is probably a bad idea.

Maybe we should have just stuck with t-shirts.

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