Can you kill monsters by swinging objects?

[vladdracul]

I just tried barricading myself in the 'armory' room in black plague after you get out of the sewers and get the 'rusty saw' haha. the barricade worked and the infected dude couldn't get to me, but after 5 minutes of throwing steel boxes at it nothing happened...all i did was trap myself there lol.
I guess that you cant kill 'em is good in a way because it makes it more realistic, in the sense that you really would not try and attack something that goddamn creepy in real life lol (unless you're insane). So yeah.. Stealth and ninja skills ftw.