Don't Mess With a Marching Band Kid

As a father of two marching band kids I can tell you they go through a pretty tough training regimen - one that would have some football players wheezing and puking. You don't want to mess with them:

QUARTZ HILL, Calif. – Don't mess with a marching band girl, especially one armed with a baton. A 17-year-old high school marching band student beat up two assailants who tried to mug her as she walked to school in this high desert community about 40 miles north of Los Angeles, sheriff's officials said Tuesday.

The girl punched one of the men in the nose, kicked the other in the groin and beat both with her large baton before she ran away on Friday morning, officials said.

"The moral to this story is don't mess with the marching band girls."

Unless you want a tuba wrapped around your neck in ways the manufacturer never designed, don't mess with them.