"beat the **** out of a redhead day"

saturday morning, i was at the supermarket getting food for the weekend. in the soup aisle, a forty-ish guy stopped me and asked, "excuse me, have you ever heard of 'ginger day'?" i didn't know if this was a pickup line or the beginning of a joke, but i played along and replied that i hadn't. he told me that his middle-school-aged son had told him the day before that that day had been "ginger day" at school, where the kids all sought out their redheaded classmates and shoved them. i thought it was a load of crap... until jack found this: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/11/22/california.redhead.attack.facebook/index.html

well, that's just great. another excuse for kids to be mean to each other. thank goodness this particular kid wasn't too badly hurt.