Control the missiles

The Sevens was a great success for Hong Kong. We took our Primary One-aged children to the matches on Sunday, their first time to attend a rugby match. Attendance was fantastic; we read it was approximately 40,000 fans.

We sat down with England and Fiji just beginning their match. Our children excitedly had questions about the game and we become heavily engrossed, explaining the game to them.

We were enjoying it thoroughly when we saw a shiny flying object whiz by our heads and land about 15 rows down on a mum with two children.

Fortunately, it hit the mum's heavy jacket, but surely startled her and the children. There were other objects thrown during the game. Most were the soft advertising balls handed out and some other lightweight round doughnuts.

We later saw that the shiny object was the top of a large tin can at least 5-6 inches in diameter. The type of pull-off top from, say, a can of nuts. The edges are extremely sharp and could have caused severe damage to someone's face and eyes.

Our bags were checked on the way in, but the checking was not very professional and could not unearth every incorrect article.

We did not see security control people viewing the stands. Perhaps if there were security, as they do with music concerts, this could deter those fans from throwing down objects.