On his podcast Adam Carolla often talks about the [w]ussification of our country. Pretty sure this qualifies: dodgeball, a staple of public education for as long as there have been red rubber balls to wing at classmates, is now at the center of a lawsuit.
Twelve-year-old Shane Reese was sitting in the bleachers at a Bronx middle school when an errant throw nailed him in the face. The rules of dodgeball stipulate that you can't hit a player above the shoulders so if Reese had been participating, he'd still be in the game.
He wasn't participating. Worse: it wasn't a forgiving red rubber ball, but a rock-hard soccer ball. And worse than that: Reese had just had dental surgery. So taking one to the chops with a round brick didn't exactly advance the healing process.
Teachers at a Bronx school are being portrayed as dunces for letting students play dodgeball with hard soccer balls in a crowded gym - leaving left one kid with busted teeth.A judge will decide dodgeball's ultimate fate, but in the meantime the New York Daily News reports that the National Association for Sports and Physical Education issued a statement in 2006 discouraging dodgeball, a long-held recess ritual, from being played in schools.
The city offered 12-year-old Shane Reese $20,000 Monday to head off a lawsuit stemming from a head shot he took in the crazy game last year at Intermediate School 219.
And when a spokesman for the organization heard the circumstances under which Reese was injured, he exclaimed, "That's chaos!"
Clearly, the liberals are ruining this country.
via Deadspin
