Yet again!

Today, Elle and I went to a birthday party for a little boy who was in Elle's kindergarten class, and his twin sister. At the end of the party they had. . . A PINATA! Yet again!
The dad set up a rickety metal ladder and climbed to the third from top step. Then, each kid was blindfolded (I guess to make it even more ridiculoulsy hard)as they got a turn whacking the air and sometimes the brick-hard pinata. Finally, the pony pinata's head came off and it dangled Nearly Headless Nick-like while the kids all got a second turn. Then, surprise, surprise, no holes were made, no candy fell out. So, the dad fully decapitated the pony pinata and pulled out its candy guts and flung them into the air and onto the heads of the kids gathered around the base of the ladder. We parents cringed as we saw the suckers and other hard candy denting our kid's heads.
One of the moms told me of a pinata party she had attended not long ago that now makes her cringe with fear at the sight of a pinata. She said a kid was whacking away with a big stick at the pinata and the rest of the kids kept crowding closer and closer. Then, one little boy was hit near his eye which came out of its socket and lay danging on his cheek! EW!!!
Ya. I'm terrified of the things now! However, this mom did hear of a good alternative to the pinata thing. She said you get the kind that has strings attached and everyone grabs a string and one of the strings (no one knows which one--how exciting!) lets loose the candy. Then, out falls individual zip lock bags. Each kid gets one and everybody is happy. I guess. . .