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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: formerlurker on April 19, 2011, 06:02:30 AM
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Classic kids games like kickball deemed unsafe by state in effort to increase summer camp regulation
BY GLENN BLAIN
DAILY NEWS ALBANY BUREAU
Tuesday, April 19th 2011, 4:00 AM
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State bureaucrats have created a list of 'risky activities' for kids at summer camp. The list includes freeze tag, Wiffle Ball and kickball, among other games and activities.
ALBANY - State bureaucrats have identified a potentially deadly hazard facing our children this summer - freeze tag.
That's right, officials have decided the age-old street game - along with Wiffle Ball, kickball and dodgeball - poses a "significant risk of injury."
And classics like Capture the Flag, Steal the Bacon and Red Rover are also deemed dangerous in new state regulations for day camps.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/04/19/2011-04-19_classic_kids_games_like_kickball_deemed_unsafe_by_state_in_effort_to_increase_su.html#ixzz1JxwzvDoC
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I so f'n glad I live down south.
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I broke my nose for the first time playing kickball. The next day I was out playing kickball again, even with the stupid big ole bandage. My Mom made me. Any time I got hurt doing something, I had to do it right over again. She said she didn't raise chicken liver kids.
I love kickball.
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Building bike ramps 10' high at the bottom of a hill, having bottle rocket wars, playing softball or baseball where if you hit the person with the ball, he's automatically out, having BB gun wars, making bombs out of 12 gauge shotgun shells with their shot removed and inserted into plastic 2-liter plastic bottles, etc., etc., etc. Man, these libs just don't want us to have any fun.
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Building bike ramps 10' high at the bottom of a hill, having bottle rocket wars, playing softball or baseball where if you hit the person with the ball, he's automatically out, having BB gun wars, making bombs out of 12 gauge shotgun shells with their shot removed and inserted into plastic 2-liter plastic bottles, etc., etc., etc. Man, these libs just don't want us to have any fun.
You got that right!!! I played all these games as a child in summer camp and out. It promotes socialism and sportsmanship, not to mention excercise. Then people wonder why our kids have an obesity problem. As children, we get hurt, that is how we learn.
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The statute of limitations has probably run on the stuff my friends and I did as kids and miraculously survived...probably.
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The statute of limitations has probably run on the stuff my friends and I did as kids and miraculously survived...probably.
It's all part of my sealed record. :whatever:
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Oh, brother. It's like the UK now. ::) I went over to the article. Every single comment said essentially 1) this is stupid; 2)this is why kids are fat and wimpy; and 3) why am I still alive?
But the poll they have up, asks for agree/disagree, and something like 53% agreed with this nanny-statism. WTF?
The congressman who also serves as the dictator/czar of health is a real buttinsky. If the FDA or other govt beaurocracy has NOT proven that something is NOT harmful, he will want to ban it, just to be on the safe side, calling that "appropriate action." He is someone's elected rep, but he wants to rule us all.
I'm out in 2 and 1/2 years.
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Kickball can be dangerous... and that's why it's FUN!
I've been hit in the face with those balls... it freaking hurts. But you get over it quickly and continue to play. Kickball was the best game from my childhood. It's a shame some people want to take it away from children. :(
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This is just plain ludicrous. Society has gotten so risk adverse these days. :mental: I played kickball as a kid too. It was fun, like dodgeball. :-)
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You got that right!!! I played all these games as a child in summer camp and out. It promotes socialism and sportsmanship, not to mention excercise. Then people wonder why our kids have an obesity problem. As children, we get hurt, that is how we learn.
Did you mean socialization? Or Socialism? I don't think any of the things I did promoted socialism.
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One game that was brutal ,but fun was battleship or Pirateship. All the kids were in the middle of a field and there were four invisible places of a ship, stern, port, bow. starbourd. The winner has to rely on their memory and speed. It was funny to see fifty kids going in 4 different directions. The smaller kids kept getting trampled however.
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Did you mean socialization? Or Socialism? I don't think any of the things I did promoted socialism.
oh sorry yes socialization, not to mentiom teamplayership
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Ritchie said the regulations could cripple small recreational programs, forcing them to pay a $200 fee to register as a summer camp and provide medical staff.
I'm sure money and unions have nothing to do with this.
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I got to play with lawn darts when I was a kid. FRICKIN' LAWN DARTS.
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I broke my nose for the first time playing kickball. The next day I was out playing kickball again, even with the stupid big ole bandage. My Mom made me. Any time I got hurt doing something, I had to do it right over again. She said she didn't raise chicken liver kids.
I love kickball.
And I love your mom for that. This world needs more people like her (as evidenced by this news story).
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State bureaucrats have created a list of 'risky activities' for kids at summer camp. The list includes freeze tag, Wiffle Ball and kickball, among other games and activities.
You know what's the riskiest activity of all, assholes? BEING A KID!!! :thatsright: Why don't you go and try to regulate that, morons?
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You know what's the riskiest activity of all, assholes? BEING A KID!!! :thatsright: Why don't you go and try to regulate that, morons?
exactly!! Life is like a bicycle....When a child falls off a bike, what is the first thing a smart parent say?? Dust yourself off and get back on!!!
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BS like this is why:
I H8 NY
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Ritchie said the regulations...
Thundley, I missed that quote when I skimmed the article. Patty Ritchie is my NY congresscritter, we swung from D to R & I had her sign in my yard. She's got common sense, I like her so far. I wrote her a couple times about NY banning the e-cig. She wrote back and basically said, "Relax. We've got bigger fish to fry right now."
Laughingman, last summer we invited some pals over for the afternoon. One brought the original lawn darts. It was AWESOME.
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I got to play with lawn darts when I was a kid. FRICKIN' LAWN DARTS.
Six of us (as adults) had lawn dart TOURNAMENTS on summer evenings under the streetlights!! :lmao:
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I used to play with Chemistry sets and a little toy machine that melted plastic blanks to make "copies" of stuff, not to mention kickball, baseball (hardball), dodgeball, jumping off of swings at their apogee, had bike wrecks, made "go-karts" out of lawnmower wheels, etc etc etc. I made it out alive.
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As Reb said, BB gun wars, tackle football w/o pads, makeshift bike ramps, etc. That was the good stuff.
Buncha limp-wristed pussies up in the NY State Legislature.
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I also had toy steam engines when I was a kid.
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The pussifacation of America. Limp wristed weenies are easier to control.
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Let's not forget the lawsuit happy society engendered by greedy lawyers.
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Dump Link (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x923149)
There's the link to the DUmp's take on it. You know what? They sound exactly like us. Basically, the whole thing is stupid, it's why kids are fat, and kids don't get a fun childhood anymore.
One "name removed" for apparently making a sneering comment about regulation.
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Dump Link (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x923149)
There's the link to the DUmp's take on it. You know what? They sound exactly like us. Basically, the whole thing is stupid, it's why kids are fat, and kids don't get a fun childhood anymore.
One "name removed" for apparently making a sneering comment about regulation.
I didn't see Nadine(the player of toy soldiers) or Bobo chime in
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By modern definitions of what is dangerous I should have died long ago, along with most everyone here.
Sure I got hurt quite a bit but did I make those mistakes again? Nope.
And get this, I got hurt while at the neighbours and we didn't sue them. Bizarre I know.
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Dump Link (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x923149)
There's the link to the DUmp's take on it. You know what? They sound exactly like us. Basically, the whole thing is stupid, it's why kids are fat, and kids don't get a fun childhood anymore.
One "name removed" for apparently making a sneering comment about regulation.
They may sound like us, but it is their fellow moonbats doing this shit. This is exactly what Cass Sunstein wants to see and they're all about Cass Sunstein. They may have a problem with this, but how different is this from monitored AC temperature gauges?
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They have apparently backed down after "national ridicule." (On the news this morning.) They must have been deluged with mail. Andrew Cuomo reportedly led the effort to ditch it.
He may be a democrat, but he's not really an out-and-out moonbat.
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Like this BS:
http://nation.foxnews.com/culture/2011/04/18/time-ice-makers-are-destroying-planet
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I got to play with lawn darts when I was a kid. FRICKIN' LAWN DARTS.
The pussification of America continues.
Yeah, I remember Jarts. The cool game that was like horseshoes, only less dangerous. If you're so stupid as to get underneath one of those, you deserve to be spiked.
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The pussification of America continues.
Yeah, I remember Jarts. The cool game that was like horseshoes, only less dangerous. If you're so stupid as to get underneath one of those, you deserve to be spiked.
I learned to play horseshoes when I was about 5 or 6 along with many cousins at family reunions. There were lots of sore ankles and shins back then.