Legend has it that a man once went over Niagara Falls in a barrel and survived. Later, however, he died of a head injury he received after slipping on a banana peel. Sometimes the simple things in life are taken for granted. Who knew that the daredevil man would die via a banana? Things are not always what they appear to be. Take the chicken nugget for example. To the ordinary person it might seem like a delicious yet harmless food product. Like the man who died by the banana peel, a chicken nugget can be a weapon of destruction. If we ponder the idea of a death by the chicken nugget, many images can come to mind. How do we kill someone with a chicken nugget? First there is the obvious way, death by choking. We live in fast food type world where if it takes more than ten minutes our schedules break down. We want fast oil changes, fast pizza delivery, fast food, fast everything. If we eat our chicken nuggets too fast, then eventually bad things can happen. Next we have somanella, or basically a disease inherent within improperly prepared poultry. Let's face it, chicken nuggets are cute food. It's something to snack on, or to give to the kids. In the hands of the irresponsible, however, disaster could strike. Chicken must be thouroughly cooked, and cleaned, and only then is it safe to eat. Then, of course, there is the freak accident. Imagine for a moment that a business executive, stressed to the point of heart trouble, decides to take a ten minute hiatus from his job. He walks up to the roof of the Empire State Building to finish his fast food lunch of chicken nuggets. As he looks down on the streets he can't help but admire the tiny flea sized specks of people bustling about. His stress diminishes as he watches the people until he actually begins to smile. Suddenly, without warning, his beeper goes off. It startles him, and he drops his chicken nugget over the side of the building. The Empire State Building is 448 meters high. When the chicken nugget begins its freefall decent, it will be accelerating at a speed of 9.8 meters/square second. This means the chicken nugget will be plummeting downward for more than 9.5 seconds. By the time it hits it will be traveling approximately 210 miles per hour. We don't have to be rocket scientists to know what would happen if the nugget struck a human at that velocity. Finally we have the unthinkable, murder. We would all like to sit back and forget about the travesties in the world, but we cannot ignore the fact. These things do happen, and not just on television either. As the unsuspecting hosts sample their devistatingly good chicken bits, and devistating is an understatement, they notice a faint almondy taste. It's good they mutter as they rythmically down one nugget after another. Suddenly they begin to feel queasy as the nuggets laced with cyanide begin to take effect. They have been tricked. As we can see, the once fun, delicious, filling food we love to give our kids no longer seems as innocent as we would like to believe. It doesn't matter what we have, the world can find a way to pervert it, regardless of the purity that it was meant to have. If we are careful, however, we can use the mystery to our advantage. Remember, there is more than one way to skin a cat, try using a chicken nugget.