Grocery store brawl included turkey-swinging, bacon-tipping and yogurt-throwing

A frozen turkey and other edible weapons were flying last week in a fracas in Woodman's Food Market, Madison, Wisconsin last week. According to police the fight was between two groups of women in the meat department and evidently erupted during an ongoing dispute over money.

A 62-year old man was on the phone with 911, trying to call the melee in, when someone chucked a full container of yogurt at his head. It just missed, and he ended up with dairy product on his baseball cap as the strawberry yogurt splattered on doors to the butcher's area, and onto the floor.



During the fracas, one combatant armed herself with a frozen turkey. That was swung and tossed. A palate holding eight large boxes of bacon was toppled. That happened after two women began exchanging punches. Both ended up rolling around on the same floor with the yogurt and bacon.

The fisticuffs were precipitated by one woman pulling out a canister of pepper spray. That ended up being shot into the eyes of two women. They were engaged in the faceoff with the four others. Police stopped those who were pepper sprayed as they were about to drive away. One was cited for disorderly conduct. The other food fighters were not immediately located.