Coach Convicted in Autistic Boy's Beaning
Pepe Dominguez
15-09-2006, 07:50
Yes, that's the actual title of the link to the article as it appears on CNN.com... cracked me up, dunno why. It's sad, sure, but hilarious..
Here's a challenge.. read this:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/baseball/more/09/14/deliberate.beaning.charges.ap/index.html?cnn=yes
Then, picture the incident in your mind without stifling some kind of laugh or half-laugh... It can't be done. Try it. :eek:
Yes, that's the actual title of the link to the article as it appears on CNN.com... cracked me up, dunno why. It's sad, sure, but hilarious..
Here's a challenge.. read this:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/baseball/more/09/14/deliberate.beaning.charges.ap/index.html?cnn=yes
Then, picture the incident in your mind without stifling some kind of laugh or half-laugh... It can't be done. Try it. :eek:
Ok... I admit it... I smiled. but I didn't Laugh, chuckle or snort...
and I smiled at the image of two grown men in the courtroom pointing fingers at each other saying "No, you're the liar!"
Wilgrove
15-09-2006, 07:55
Wow... Sometimes people can take sports wayyy tooo far.
Pepe Dominguez
15-09-2006, 08:06
Ok... I admit it... I smiled. but I didn't Laugh, chuckle or snort...
Something about using the term "beaning" in the headline.. I would've expected something a bit more clinical... the term has a humorous connotation to me, even as someone who's been beaned a few times.. :p
Boonytopia
15-09-2006, 11:01
I just think it's sad. Kids sport is meant to be about them enjoying themselves. For the coach to pay one kid to hurt another, is horrible.
Philosopy
15-09-2006, 11:03
8 and 9 year olds?
That's taking sports way too seriously. Whatever happened to it being the taking part that counts?
Rubiconic Crossings
15-09-2006, 11:06
A friend is a Sunday league ref for kiddies footy....and some parents just go completely mental...
mad
Gataway_Driver
15-09-2006, 11:09
Sorry but not even a chuckle. A slight pang of sadness that kids have to take sport that seriously. From the sounds of it the coach is a prat
This is more disgusting then funny. The coach should be ashamed of himself though I doubt he feels anything of the sort.
The South Islands
16-09-2006, 02:48
The kid had an earring. Any kid that young with an earring deserves to be beaned.