Kid With Popcorn-Bucket Hat Gets Smoked By Foul Ball, Falls Onto Field

Tom Ley

PublishedAugust 21, 2014

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This really couldn't have gone worse for the young fan wearing a popcorn tub as a hat.

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For starters, he is wearing a popcorn tub as a hat. Then he gets completely blindsided by a sharp carom and ends up taking a foul ball right to the dome, which leads to him falling over the fence and landing on the field in a crumpled heap. The popcorn bucket, transformed from a whimsical hat into a reminder that the universe often seeks to punish foolishness, rests just a few inches away.