“A New Jersey toddler was released from the hospital Sunday morning after being struck in the head with a javelin,” MSNBC reports.

“The accident happened Saturday afternoon during a track meet at Haddon Township High School. Police aren’t sure how the 3-year-old boy was hit.”

Well, one guess is that the boy’s head found itself in the same spacio-temporal point as a sharpened, airborn projectile interrupted in flight by the pull of gravity. Open a physics book, flatfoots.

Besides, it could’ve been a lot worse: Most kids assaulted with spears in Haddon Township won’t live to tell about it…

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