Posted on 02/02/2011 7:31:23 AM PST by KeyLargo
Edited on 02/02/2011 7:33:08 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
It's one of the simple, most wonderful pleasures of life: zooming down a snow-covered hill just fast enough for a touch of fear to quicken your pulse. Maybe it's a solo run. Maybe you're clinging to a loved one as you tear down the hill tandem. Surely, sledding is one of those things that makes it worth toughing it out and living in New Jersey when sunnier climes often beckon.
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So true. So much childhood fun ruined by do-gooders who won’t grasp that life involves risk and that’s part of what makes it rich. I often wonder if Sci-Fi authors who wrote about a future where humans are nothing more than stationary blobs who absorb video stimulation weren’t onto something.
Ding, ding, ding - We have a winner folks!
This ‘study’ states there are over 200,000 ER injuries per year because of sledding
http://www.webmd.com/parenting/news/20100823/sledding-accidents-land-thousands-of-kids-in-er
Here’s one site that has all sport injury stats
http://www.scientificpsychic.com/fitness/sport_injuries.html
Bicycling looks to be the worst
Cute!
“This ‘study’ states there are over 200,000 ER injuries per year because of sledding...”
sure.... that’s the study that the ‘BammyCare advocates will use to ban sledding.. for the social “good”..../s
My Dad used to take us to Galloping Hill Golf Course when we were kids. One of our downhill vehicles was a toboggan that seated 6 that my Dad would wax the heck out of before we left. Alot of good memories from there, which unfortunately today’s kids will not have. Another good hill is the hill behind St. Joseph’s Shrine in Stirling - not sure though if sledding is allowed anymore.
Fun Governers
“He’d have been better off suing the town for failure to fence the pond off and failure to post a warning sign that said “Warning: you can fall through the ice” or some such.”
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I remember as a lad in Pawling NY finding a hill with my ‘new’ sled - pretty sure it was used, but new to me - and on the third trip down went over a dug out garage - dirt floor but the cinder block walls were up. Broke my arm (sled was fine) but after a good ‘hide tanning’ people were wondering where I had found the snow as the hill was just ice covered.
Guess my family was just to ‘dumb’ to realize I was their meal ticket and probably worth millions for my stupid actions.
Then there was the abandoned quarry just outside Dover Plains NY where we would spend many hours swimming in the bottomless pit where the water was ‘ice cold’....
Ah yes, we were all potential zillionaires but just to ‘dumb’ to realize it....
When I was a kid we sledded at what we called “Green’s Hill” in Sea Girt. I think it was a driving range but by the time I made it to high school it was turned into a strip mall or food store. There were 1000s of kids there from numerous southern monmouth county towns. It was great fun. In that area of the Jersey Shore, hills of any kind are few and far between.
i’m 59 now. when i was a kid we sledded on the golf course. one was just a big hill. the other was a CALVIN AND HOBBS through trees and into the stream or the bridge railing if you didn’t steer well. oh nad no helmet.
i also fell off the monkey bars and cracked my head. and played touch football in the street ala bill cosby. mad left the house after breakfast on my bike and got home at dinner. good times.
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