GREENVILLE, N.C. -- Authorities at a North Carolina college say a huge snowball fight got out of control. Campus police were called to a dormitory at East Carolina University three times Tuesday as hundreds of students pelted each other with snow. The college is in a part of the state which doesn't get snow often, but a rare storm dropped several inches on campus that day.
Police said some students were getting too aggressive and an officer used pepper spray on a group that rushed officers trying to make an arrest.
Junior Brandon Davis said, "It all started in good nature, but then people were throwing them as hard as they could at each other." Junior Matt Lunchick said an officer chased and arrested a student after being hit in the back with a snowball.
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