Half-Ton Snowball Traps, Injures Boy

local6 ^ | December 17, 2003

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NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario -- An 11-year-old Canadian boy is recovering in a hospital after he was trapped underneath a half-ton snowball.

Officials in Niagara Falls, Ontario, say the boy and his classmates at a Catholic elementary school were rolling the 5-foot-high snowball around the playground when he slipped.

The snowball rolled onto him, cutting off his oxygen. Officials say the school principal revived the boy by performing CPR.

The boy is expected to make a full recovery. Police are calling it "a freak accident."

[martin_fierro]

The MOAB of snowball fights.

[mylife]

Damn it! Now the PC croed will attempt to make snowmen illegal!

[mylife]

croed=crowd

[2banana]

There should have been warning labels on the snowball and playground...

[Incorrigible]

I hate when that happens!

[Johnny Gage]

The family has retained famous lawyer Mark Geragos, and are working to file a lawsuit against Mother Nature for creating the snow, and the School District for not shoveling all the snow off of the payground.

[Johnny Gage]

payground = pLayground (^&%#$&% spellchecking)

[HamiltonJay]

Wouldn't that make it a MOAS, not a MOAB?

[Blood of Tyrants]

That's snowPERSONS, thank you!

[Kirkwood]

Hope the kid has a quick recovery and doesn't get freaked out in the years to come when he hears the song Frosty the Snowman.

[Oztrich Boy]

payground = pLayground (^&%#$&% spellchecking)

see. Iffen you had kept quiet, we would have just thought you were really witty.