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As a Canadian, I of course have taken an 80 mph hockey puck to the side of the head. Just above my ear. I lost my balance and fell over, but after a few minutes I was fine. I could have easily been killed if I didn't have a helmet on.
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Excellent examples. With or without a helmet, if a 95mph fastball is heading towards your dome, you're still getting out of the fucking way. But with the helmet, you have a much higher chance of survival if you get hit than if the ball makes direct impact with your skull.
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Sometimes yes sometimes no. Helmets designed to protect your head from flying objects (like hockey pucks and baseballs) are probably quite beneficial. Those designed to allow you to smash into people in ways that would cripple you otherwise do as you suggest - make us act like we're invincible cyborgs.
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Yeah, I know that wasn't you. But the popular thought among people is that protective gear or added safety features automatically means "more safe" and that's just not true. At least not entirely. Sometimes protective gear and equipment actually promotes reckless behavior.
I do agree with them removing lax balls though. Those things fucking hurt. T |
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I was just quoting the article. I know it's beyond stupid.
"Nerf balls will be provided" The future is doomed. |
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"Without helmets and pads, children are much more susceptible to getting hurt, experts say."
Those experts would be wrong. In actuality, protective gear increases your chances of getting hurt because they provide a false sense of security. True or false: The protective gear football players wear is the strongest and most durable it's ever been. True. True or false: Head trauma and other serious injuries (head, neck, back, broken bones, torn ligaments) are higher in the NFL today than they were before modern helmets and pads were introduced. Also true because 60 years ago before pads and helmets became mandatory, players didn't launch themselves into each other head first like missiles. Protective gear doesn't provide any more protection from serious injuries than playing without protective gear. Pads and helmets help prevent bruises and abrasions, not broken legs and concussions. T |
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Whether or not the school should even be involved is one thing. Suspending the students for an entire YEAR? It wasn't long ago you had to damn near kill someone to earn a year-long suspension.
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Hell as kids we use to run around shooting each other with BB guns all the time, stung like hell. BUT, we were all in on it, was on our property and did not involve unsuspecting kids off our property...the neighbor overreacted, the school definitely overstepped their rights in my opinion, but the kids should not have intentionally shot off their property at unsuspecting kids...when I was a kid the neighbor would have told my mother and I would have wished she had called the cops instead
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In furthering the efforts to wussify our future generations.....
Worries about injuries at a Long Island school have led to a surprising ban. Weber Middle School in Port Washington are worried that students are getting hurt during recess. Thus, they have instituted a ban on: footballs baseballs lacrosse balls soccer balls anything that might hurt someone on school grounds. Certain activities have been banned, unless supervised by a coach: tag cartwheels Without helmets and pads, children are much more susceptible to getting hurt, experts say. Nerf balls will be provided. I wonder who wants to be the school's "Tag" coach. |
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"This has got to be one of the dumbest ideas I've ever heard of. "
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