Posted on 06/04/2010 4:33:03 AM PDT by csvset
A MINNESOTA teenager had to have his testicle amputated after being punched in the groin by a classmate.
KARE11.com said David Gibbons, 14, was changing classes in his Crosby high school when he was attacked by another student playing a game called "sack tapping".
Davids mother, Christy Gibbons, said it wasn't until hours later that they realised something was wrong. "One o'clock in the morning he woke me up and told me he was in excruciating pain," she said.
David was taken to St Joseph's Hospital in Brainerd, Minnesota where surgeons removed his right testicle.
And David is not the only student who has suffered the consequences of the "sack tapping" game.
"It's just gotten way out of control," said Dr Scott Wheeler, a urologist in Brainerd, Minnesota who says he performs three to four surgeries a year on boys with ruptured testicles and other complications as a result of "sack tapping".
"All parents, you need to have this talk with your kids not to do it. It's lost its humour. It's not a game anymore. People get hurt," he added.
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Okay, when you get punched in the package hard enough that you have to have one of your boys surgically removed...that’s not a tap.
The urologist.
Bring back the codpiece!
“Nothing new is going on. These types of things are common and have been for ages. They just werent always so widespread, nor publicized.”
I am not so sure that boys in the past would have touched each other’s testicles. I know that boys in sports often whacked each other with towels, but grabbing their private parts in the hallways of public schools is something else.
America's Funniest Home Videos where the $10k always goes to the guy who gets it in the nuts.
Yeah.
And any kids that won’t be born to this genius now that he’ll have a lower sperm count.
!!!. These kids are nuts.
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