Hello,
This is fading news, and probably received enough national coverage that most of you are aware of it, but in case anyone's interested and didn't know, there was a terrible incident in Long Island a year ago where a woman driving a car was severely injured when a teen driving with other teens in a car ahead of hers threw a frozen turkey that went through her windshield, severely injuring and somewhat disfiguring her.
The subsequent trial was very dramatic, as the kid turned out to be a very weak-willed "follower" type who had been trying to be cool in order to earn a little of his peers' esteem, and (much more affectingly) when the victim requested a light sentence for him so that he could get on with his life, hopefully having learned something. That summary doesn't do justice to how moving and interesting the story, and the woman's words, were.
Anyway, here's a couple of cursory articles, from when the incident first happened, and after the sentencing last month:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6520848
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7279844/did/9744711
-o