Great Moments in Journalism are submitted by readers, and can be sent to this address. Today's Moment comes from the BBC's coverage of recent research that shows "[k]icking somebody during a fight can be more dangerous than using a sharp or blunt weapon."

Study leader Professor Jonathan Shepherd, an oral and maxillofacial surgeon, warned that alcohol was a large contributing factor in the use of kicking in fights as drunk people were more likely to fall over.
"There's an important link with alcohol. Often in fights people are kicked when they fall over and one of the ways to reduce kicking is to reduce severe intoxication because fewer people would fall over.

Kicking causes most severe injury [BBC]

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