TOKYO - Monday, November 13 . . . Kashima University has expelled four medical students for pelting other students with human brains.
School officials say the three men and one woman were dissecting cadavers in the science laboratory when one of the males removed part of a cerebral cortex from a corpse's skull and threw it at one of the other medical students.
Within minutes a "brain fight" had broken out.
The students then reportedly opened the windows of the second floor lab and began throwing the brains down on unwitting passersby on the street below. One girl was hit in the face and required treatment at the university's emergency room.
School security officers say they're fairly certain that more people were involved in the brain-throwing but only four were witnessed.
The expelled students said they didn't plan the brain fight. One of them said, "It just sort of happened." He blamed the odd behavior on the pressure of constant study and lack of sleep.
