Posted on 04/13/2005 3:50:08 PM PDT by BenLurkin
I'm usually not sympathetic to the perp, but in this case I'll make an exception. It seems he probably didn't mean to do what he did, and it will haunt him the rest of his life.
I was in many fights at that age...thank the Good Lord this never happened.
What a horrible story.
Why is that a liberal cannot be sincere about anything?
ML/NJ
Ask any EMT about blunt force trauma at baseball games.
Injuries commonly result from getting hit with bats (swung or thrown), baseballs, (trauma to the head or occasionally to the heart when a wild pitch strikes a batter in the sternum), and collisions with other players.
A friend of mine was knocked unconscious for 3 minutes when we were playing softball in high school. He was trying to field a high fly ball and he simply missed it and it hit him right in the middle of his forehead. He got a concussion out of it.
Beats me.
I'm with you on that. Both my kids are karate black belts. They no longer practice. However, I have ALWAYS asked them if they would EVER use an action that would kill anyone; unless it were a situation involving their own lives. They have told me that they would use "reasonable force, addressing the opposing force(s)."
So, I feel comfortable with their attitudes. I defend our domicile in the same way. Sigs, and Glocks seem to work efficiently.
Yes, I really was lucky. It happened right after a game had ended, so there were tons of other kids and parents around, including my mother. He insulted me, then I insulted him back, then WHAM.
I don't think anything happened to the kid, at least that I know of. He had some developmental problems amongst other things. He was about 10 or 11 and I was 9-ish.
Yeah, their building a gallows for the little bastard right now.
If some kid tryied to swing a bat, and hit me on the head. I would duck, and tackle him, get the bat, and brake either his leg or arm with it. But never hit him on the head, maybe in the balls though!
Sorry, but I unfortunately believe there are quite a few that would erupt in anger and do that before they realize it. Teens have rampant hormones, are sometimes overzealous about sports, and super sensitive about insults; and in today's world, they are encouraged to emote their feelings and see much too much TV violence.
If this happened to my child, I would feel like doing the same to the kid, but I wouldn't.
vaudine
yet we have freepers thinking we should let boys be boys even more than we let boys be boys NOW.......I'd hate to see what they would allow.....
as far as this incident, sounding like an awful lot of people want nothing to happen to this kid......like hitting someone with a baseball bat to the head is something done thousands and thousands of times a day, purely by accident.....
I think what was sinkin in was "Oh dear I don't think I'm going to be able to get out of this one like I usually do".
Yes, when something like this happens, immediate sympathy is beamed to the perpetrator and nobody wants to "ruin his life". Hey, actions have consequences, and every age carries its responsibilities. We have to start teaching consequences and responsibilities along with walking and talking, when they are babes. Unfortunately, a lot of people think responsibility and self discipline just happen automatically.
This kid's life is ruined, but the other kid is dead. I hope coaches and parents and teachers use this to teach restraint and responsibility, but I'm not holding my breath.
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