How to be a Jackass

1.Promote a Giant Pinata that will be in the Guinness Book of World Records.

2.Tell us a giant wrecking ball will be smashing the pinata at around 1:30 this afternoon.

3. Set this all up on PAVEMENT with no barricades or even ropes to keep people back.

4. Look around at the crowd and decide to lock the gates so that those of us inside can't get out, and those outside can't get in.

5. Make us wait for two hours.

6. Tell us to go home because the pinata will not be broken due to "technical failure."

7. Then blame the cops.

Any idiot with eyes in their head could survey the scene for ten seconds and realize it was a BAD idea with little to no real planning.

I just want to know, Carnival, what the hell did you actually think would happen here?

Reports I'm seeing now say that there was never any intent for the pinata to be smashed...the wrecking ball was a foam prop (I have no confirmation of this). Instead, the candy was just going to be 'released' from the bottom of the pinata (again, this is just one of many stories I've heard...no official report from Carnival themselves).

Comments

[Dave2]

I would have used dynamite to blow it up. But no worries... I'm a thinker... everybody would have gotten protective eye-wear!

[sara]

I say that they just wanted to keep the candy to themselves. Reminds me of a certain set of parents that I knew when I was a kid. Every year I swear they had the same pinata. Every year the thing wouldn't break. Every year we got cupcakes instead. :p I swear, they made the thing out of concrete.

[Andrew]

What a nightmare. If they'd had it done in time for the World Series victory, the crowds could have taken care of it instead of Ted Passon's car: http://phillyfixmycar.blogspot.com/