Dodging Dodge Ball
mwild31
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Albany, New York - a seven year old girl was playing dodgeball at school, fell and hurt her elbow. The injury required a cast and her parents, fearing a long-term injury, contacted an attorney and they sued the school for allowing the kids to play dodgeball. The state's appeals court agrees and the issue is now going to trial where a jury will decide if dodgeball should be played in school. So "jury", what do you think?
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Kids fall down. Kids break things. Excrement happens!
As Henry VIII said, "First thing, let's kill all the lawyers."
Henry VIII would have just cut their heads off...
In my defense, I will say that college Shakespeare was a looooong time ago... (kids still played dodgeball, it was so long ago).
>compliment to the lawyers,not a blasphemy.
Isn't "lawyer" synonymous with blasphemy? x;-)
I think the judge should sentence the parents to a caged dodge ball match with Ben Stiller and that other guy in that movie. A good pummeling with a dodge ball is good for the soul.
They sent me to the nurse to wait for my mom then to my doctors office for a cast.
What's the time limits on filing a suit? $$$ x;-)
Lisa
After lunch, I stayed for recess. One of my daughter's classmates asked if I would play tether ball. Tether ball is a game where the hardest known substance to man is shaped into a ball, tied to a pole and then knocked back and forth at high speeds, until someone manages to knock the ball around the pole or someone is rendered unconscious.
My daughter and her friend, Melissa, played versus me. It was all fairly fun and I tried to not hit the ball too hard. Back and forth we went and all was well until I somehow knuckled the ball a bit too hard and it flew back towards Melissa on a trajectory with her right eye.
After contact, Melissa released a blood curdling scream and grabbed her eye/face region. The next few moments are kind of hazy but essentially we made the long walk across the playground back to the main office with Melissa screaming and crying and my daughter telling everyone within earshot "My daddy hit her with the tetherball!"
Once Melissa was safely ushered to the nurse's office I decided awkwardly it was time to leave and go back to work. The nurse offered me the consoling words that Meliss was a "regular customer" with a wink.
Since The Incident, I have not joined my daughter for recess, lunch, etc. I will check back in with her around high school.