There was pie for dessert after lunch at the Carbon County Senior Center Wednesday, but only for a group of public figures who volunteered to take a flying cream pie (or two) in the face.
Carbon County Senior Center Director Debbie Kobe, along with four other prominent figures in the community stepped up, or rather, sat down to help raise money during the first “When Pies Fly” event.
Price Mayor Joe Piccolo, Carbon County Commissioner Casey Hopes, Recreation Director Frank Ori, and Sheriff Jeff Wood also participated in the slapstick fundraiser.
Kobe said a total of $929 was raised by selling $1 tickets for the chance to throw a pie or to choose the target. Kobe’s name was selected most as a target, and she was the first to get creamed. She then drew the name of the next victim, who repeated the process until all of the pies were used, leaving the volunteers blotched in white.
According to Wikipedia, pieing is the act of throwing a pie at a person or people. Pieing has its origins in the “pie in the face” gag from slapstick comedy. The definitive pie fight in movies occurs in the 1927 film,“The Battle of the Century,” starring Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel, using 3,000 pies.
The 1965 comedy, “The Great Race,” is known for having the largest pie fight in cinematic history. Four thousand pies were used in the pie fight scene that took five days to shoot.
Dignitaries get creamed ‘When Pies Fly’
Jeff Wood