Missing Information Syndrome.
1) Was this an organized game during school, with “rules”?
2) Did the rules forbid deliberately targeting heads and particularly faces? No school in the last 50 years would be stupid enough to allow that.
3) The article tell us the aspiring thug is only 10.
4) No age is given for the targeted/injured kid. Instead, there’s a tricky statement, “some 10 year old kids were playing”, so we’ll assume ALL the kids were 10.
5) Maybe I’ve come to expect Clinton dishonesty from all reportage, but doesn’t the charge begin to make sense if an older child deliberately slammed a younger one in the face, in violation of school rules? Not saying that happened; just suspicious.
Mom can pull her little petunia out of sports if she can’t handle him growing up. Yeah, we all faced the horrors of baseball, football, dodge-ball,... it was such a terrible thing to have to deal with when I was young and defenseless!
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She should start a “Pussies Unite” chapter and make her son troop leader.
, some critics are calling the incident racist, while others — including celebrity comedian DL Hughley, who called the charge “ridiculous” — are coming to the boy’s general defense.
They went to a comedian for rebuttal now that funny!
Wish Paul Harvey was here to give us the rest of the story...did the guy throwing the ball cross the line and make a point of doing damage or was it an actual game of dodge ball? What was the supervision? Too many unanswered questions to come down on either side...but FReepers will do so any way and half will exult how they were right if it ever becomes clear what really happened...the rest will wait for their jump the shark lottery ticket to win something.
There, I feel better.
I call it a stupid accident...when I was 10 we had a game called “Kill the pill” or the more offensive term “Smear the Quire.” the game consisted of throwing a football into the air and some one catching it while everyone else tried to tackle the kid with the ball. we had all sorts of injuries and today I am sure that you would have weak willed parents who’s son broak there arm playing the game calling it assault. I don’t think any parent back then gave it a second thought when a kid playing the game got hurt. it was just a part of growing up.