[JoeProBono]

[Terpfen]

This will be a boon to the midget tossing industry.

[Kimmers]

Who and in what life did someone think this was a good idea.....

[Loud Mime]

I wonder how Al Oerter would do in this event. /s

[shibumi]

Toss me....... Toss me. Don't tell the Elf!

[BenLurkin]

[TSgt]

[hellbender]

I recommend looking at some of the other stories on that site, like the Thaipusam Piercing Festival. I think we need to encourage immigration from Thaipusam, because "diversity is strength" (the Army says so) and because these people will do the self-torture Americans won't do.

[Hot Tabasco]

authorities in central India attempted to ban a bizarre annual stone-pelting ritual which often leaves people dead or injured

Darn party poopers!

[RichInOC]

Okay, as long as babies caught=babies tossed, what’s the problem?

[Zeppo]

What on Earth has gotten into 'the authorities'?

First they ban the practice of suttee, now they're banning the baby-tossing festival.

Is there no end to this 'banning' madness?

Next thing you know, they're going to try to outlaw 'honor killings'...

I'm just gobsmacked by all of this...

Western civilization is such a burden, isn't it?

[scoobysnak71]

http://current.com/items/88929480_baby-tossing.htm

[paulycy]

[Ronin]

I read somewhere recently where in a place in Russia, mothers chuck their babies into ice water to toughen them up. I think there was even a video of infants as young as three months frolicking with their moms in a river where a hole had been chopped into an iced over river.