Wtf!

[GSequoia]

Is this world coming to?

http://www.nbc4.tv/sports/7096612/detail.html

Complaints by the parents of a student injured during a game at Hermosa Elementary School prompted authorities to charge Brittney Schneiders with battery.

Five other students also accused of battery stemming from the May 8 playground game opted to take probation, but Brittney Schneiders and her parents refused.

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Schneiders kicked a ball that hit a boy who wore braces, giving him a fat lip.

The district attorney, probation and sheriff's departments agreed with the school that the boy was repeatedly and unnecessarily hit with the ball and they filed charges against the students.

I wonder if they still use those big mean red balls that made such a beautiful hollow ping sound as they bounced off your nose. All those for a f-ing fat lip! Insanity!

[Ramsey]

i love those balls...:D

people like this make me sick

[Kuasimodem]

We played that game all the time in school, with a little twist in high school.

We substituted volleyballs for those red ones, and we called the game "Kill."


If you thought those red balls stung on impact, try a volleyball:eek: :gee:

[5-90]

Last time I checked, dodgeball and wallball are not inherently dangerous. You're likely to be targetted, tho, if you're an ass of some sort - maybe this kid should look in the mirror?

I don't seem to recall too many kids with braces playing tho - they knew that they'd get their lip split open if they got hit in the mouth with the ball.

I wonder how all the government nitnoys got involved - seems to me they'd have to have been called by someone else...

And, why is this just now being dealt with? Seems to me this was about seven or eight months ago...

5-90

[RichP]

Geeze, what BS, both my HS gym teachers were retired USMC and USA as well as our football coach. They looked at the game as a sure way to improve reaction times and geeks with braces were too easy a target...another two steps down the road to breeding sheep now I guess...

[JnJ]

They need to put their little baby in a bubble and home school him. He should be safe that way...........

[FitchVA]

hell maybe i should go back and sue my middle school. i was the guine pig for my teacher showing us takedown moves in wrestling. he didn't put down enough padding and when he threw me down, i missed the mat and headbutted the wooden floor. i was out 5 days with a concussion and post concussionary syndrome. i'd say that's good for a few mill right?

i hate how sue happy society is today

[DaJudge]

The thing that really irritates me is that our tax dollars are going towards this rediculous crap. Criminal charges against an elementary student for playing dodge ball? Why don't these chicken sh#$ prosecutors go after some real criminals?

[planefixer]

The pussification of American youth continues.

[XJ Dreamin']

Dodge ball was banned for years in our school. When we finally got to play again it was called Bombardment. Each team occupied 1/4 of a basketball court, facing each other across the mid-line of the half-court. When you were hit, or someone on the other team caught a ball that you threw, you were out. But, you didn't go sit down. Instead, when you were out you went to the perimeter of the other team's area. From there you continued to bombard your opponents. Every few minutes the coach would throw in another ball. If you were the last one left in your area you could be hit by three or four balls at once from all sides. I was a dodger. I didn't try to catch or throw. It was my job to stay in until my team could eliminate the other side. We took bombardment very seriously. The only rule was no head hunting. It your head moved into the path of a ball while you were dodging, that was fair (whatever the damage), but deliberate throwing at the head was grounds for expulsion from the game.

This sounds like the Zero Tollerance bullying policies that alot of school districts are adopting. They've had too many incidents of mental torture and suicide over the years. But, kids will be kids. I had to step in 3 times during highschool to prevent some little kid from getting the snott beat out him. I was 6' 195# my Junior year, so when one of those scrums formed with everybody standing around some dip$4!7 bully and a geek I'd just walk in and say no. If someone was picking on my teammate during gym he got targeted. Then he'd get all, "I didn't do nothin' to you!" I'd point my finger right onto the tip of his nose: "Next time check to see who his teammate is, motherf#&$er."

If anybody did anything to me he got decked. Not to the face - no visible damage - just one solid straight-line punch to the chest. Put him on his butt, step up over top of him, point that finger right onto the end of his nose and say, "One more time, motherf#&$er. You die." Turn and walk away. Worked everytime :laugh3: I did that right in the locker room once when some kid gave me a titty twister. When I turned to walk away there was the coach, standing there with his jaw hanging open. He'd never seen me give anybody any chit before. I just gave him a little nod as I walked past him, just to acknowledge his authority and to say it was over and there was no trouble. He never said a word.

[RTicUL8]

Ah, the red flubber ball.

That reminds me of a story. :lecture: :D

I was in third grade (La Canada Elementary).
The third graders were leaving the field after recess as the 5th graders were coming on.
I was a little slow that day and a 5th grade boy (bully) hit me on the back with a flubber ball. He proceeded to then push me and yell all the new potty words that he had just learned. A circle of 5th graders quickly encircled the two of us as I turned around to face him. I had been taking karate classes at the Y and was up to an orange belt. So I felt I had at least a chance of coming out alive. Well now that I was facing him he went to push me again. I moved to the side while at the same time throwing a punch. It landed squarely on his face and put him on his butt. At that same instant my teacher had come outside and yelled at me to come in – I ran. She smiled at me as I ran past her. I’m sure she saw what happened, but she never mentioned it to me.
It was too bad that my parents decided to move away after that year – I probably would have been the kid that no one messed with.

[ckh550]

I used to play 'butts up" with a tennis ball during the summer at our pool. Long story short, you throw the ball against the wall and try to catch it in the air. If you touch it then drop it, you sprint to the wall while someone tries to throw the ball to the wall before you get there. If the ball beats you, you had to stand with your hands on the wall while someone pegged a ball at your ass from about 20 feet away. Some of us played "Suicide", which was similar, but if you dropped the ball as you were running to touch the wall you could peg that person as they were running. If you hit them, you got a free shot at the ass again and they couldn't move.


IT WAS AWESOME. It made us men.

It's not the kids today that are XXXXXXs, it's the parents.

Chris

[Bent]

The pussification of America continues.

I guess that form of tackle tag we played in grade school called, “Smear the Queer" would be a hate crime then. It sure would have saved me years of effort, if I had already been a felon at the age of eight.





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[jeepinandy]

I bet the ones who are doing all the complaining and lawsuits are the ones who were the easy targets when they were kids...

[RTicUL8]

I guess that form of tackle tag we played in grade school called, “Smear the Queer" would be a hate crime then. It sure would have saved me years of effort, if I had already been a felon at the age of eight.





:mad:

OMG I remember that game!

I had to Google it. SEE WHAT I FOUND! (http://www.sportspickle.com/features/volume3/2004-0414-queer.html) :laugh3: :laugh3: :laugh3:

[footdale]

OMG I remember that game!

I had to Google it. SEE WHAT I FOUND! (http://www.sportspickle.com/features/volume3/2004-0414-queer.html) :laugh3: :laugh3: :laugh3:


"The study was funded by a $40 million federal grant."

They needed that much money to figure out that gay kids don't like to be called "queer" and feel excluded?

[RTicUL8]

They needed that much money to figure out that gay kids don't like to be called "queer" and feel excluded?

You must have missed this part: "The sports humor and satire site" LOL :D



:shhh: Shhhhh... it's make believe. ;)




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[footdale]

uhh...yeah...I knew that. I was just trying to take the joke a little further. But the www.theonion.com (Onion), now that's news...right???

[Bradlybob]

Maybe his mommy and daddy can let him wear a cute little skirt to school. Funny how the school is upset about him taking a ball to the mouth but they would be overjoyed if was taking balls to the chin!