Spinach Attacker Arrested

Creamed spinach: Dangerous in ways we hadn't counted on

​Far be it from us to imply a national crime wave is being perpetrated against drive-through servers. But Friday's creamed spinach attack on 21-year-old Boston Market worker David Almas brought attention to the fact that hurling food in the face of fast-food employees is common enough to even have a name: "Fire in the hole."

If degrading low-income workers in this way wasn't loathsome enough, the "prank" went very wrong when the scalding spinach left Almas with serious facial burns and probable permanent scarring. Yesterday the alleged spinach attacker turned himself in and was promptly arrested by police in Roseville, near Sacramento. The 17-year-old was booked into the county jail under suspicion of committing battery causing great bodily harm, and then released to his parents.



The "Fire in the Hole" phenomena traces back to to the 1999 Jackass precursor CKY. In that primordial prank, however, a cold drink is tossed through the drive-through window -- not a potentially dangerous tub of creamed spinach. "Fire in the hole" is not to be taken literally, it would seem.

The as-yet unnamed 17-year-old's three passengers may or may not be arrested as well.

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