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Pickleball victim breaks silence after shocking on-court attack: ‘Lost memory for three hours’
NY Post ^ | 11/20/2024 | Andew McMurty, News.com.au

Posted on 11/20/2024 1:13:59 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

The man who got kicked in the face in a shocking moment of pickleball violence just wants to be done with it and has no plans on pressing charges.

Footage of the fiery on-court altercation at a tournament in Mexico has gone viral, surprising many given pickleball’s reputation as a friendly sport.

In what appeared to be a match point, the eventual kicker, who was wearing pink shorts, received a serve before approaching the net, where he illegally stepped over the non-volley line.

That mistake gave away a foot fault, and ultimately the match.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Local News; Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: attack; breaks; court; memory; pickleball; shocking; silence; victim
Holy crap. Kicked right in the face.
1 posted on 11/20/2024 1:13:59 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Soon coming to Cornhole.


2 posted on 11/20/2024 1:15:26 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Even animals don’t act as some of us ‘humans’ do these days.


3 posted on 11/20/2024 1:18:53 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Only Midnight Basketball can solve pickleball violence.


4 posted on 11/20/2024 1:19:18 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He needs to be kneecapped.


5 posted on 11/20/2024 1:19:44 PM PST by FLT-bird
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Looks to me like the sore loser dropped his paddle on purpose to get the guy to bend down and pick it up. Then the jackass kicked him.


6 posted on 11/20/2024 1:29:29 PM PST by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Why is this news?
A player allows his emotions to to overcome his judgment in losing a game and hit the opposing player. The victim is letting it go. Happens all of the time.


7 posted on 11/20/2024 1:32:27 PM PST by TonyinLA (I have insufficient information to formulate a reasoned opinion said no lefty ever.)
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I think it’s an indication of how degraded our culture has become. This kind of thing happens much more often than it used to.


8 posted on 11/20/2024 1:38:03 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The perp should have had the shxt beaten out him. Pathetic POS.


9 posted on 11/20/2024 1:58:20 PM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: IYAS9YAS
Looks to me like the sore loser dropped his paddle on purpose to get the guy to bend down and pick it up.

If you watch the video you can see the other guy slap the paddle out of the guys hand.

10 posted on 11/20/2024 3:14:10 PM PST by New Perspective (As Leonard Cohen said once in an interview, “You won’t like what comes after America”)
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To: New Perspective
If you watch the video you can see the other guy slap the paddle out of the guys hand.

It looks like touching or slapping the paddle is the common after-game procedure. The way the kicker was holding his paddle seemed to be deliberately loose so as to ensure it fell to the ground when the kickee slapped it. Like I said, dropped it, pointed so as to get the kickee to bend down and then kicked him.

11 posted on 11/20/2024 6:27:22 PM PST by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: IYAS9YAS
Like I said, dropped it,

No, it was slapped out of his hand.

12 posted on 11/20/2024 6:47:06 PM PST by New Perspective (As Leonard Cohen said once in an interview, “You won’t like what comes after America”)
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