SMACK FEST ENDS IN FIGHT

In St. Paul, Minnesota, Arnellia’s Bar has a contest that they call Smack Fest. It’s a competition in which willing contestants take turns slapping each other in the faces. According to the promoters, “It’s pure adult fun.” Participants are only allowed to be women. They have three rounds, with three smacks in each. The crowd picks a winner and the grand prize from the Thursday night event was $175. But one round ended with one of the participants assaulted by at least half a dozen people. After the competition, the victim and her opponent reportedly spoke, and neither was upset about the contest. But when the woman left the bar between 2 and 2:30 a.m. and headed to her car, her Smack Fest opponent was waiting for her – in a “fighting stance.” The opponent, her boyfriend and five to six of her friends surrounded the 25-year-old. She was punched in the nose and knocked to the ground, where the suspect’s boyfriend used his foot to stomp the left side of her face. Someone drove the victim to a hospital. She had significant bruising on both sides of her face, though she said the injuries on the right side were from the Smack Fest.
* If I ever want to see women smacking each other, I go to my Grandma’s Bingo night.
* Wow, and I thought Dwarf Tossing was crude.
* “It’s pure adult fun”? They need a new slogan.
* This is the opposite of slap happy.
* These people need some sense knocked into them.
* This Thursday night, the place is sponsoring Full Contact Bar Trivia Night.
* And they named this town after a saint?
* The Twin Cities have been a little uptight since the Vikings imploded.
* This is another case where I wish I ruled the world. I’d just say, “Knock off the slapping. This is your king speaking.”
* It’s sort of a parable about how violence escalates.