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i wonder where they got the twenty five dollar figure from? the child who committed the assault? perhaps he is lying. sorry, but this seems a little strong to me. i mean, a man conscious of his actions planning something out like this...
"both boredom and hysteria are the enemies of reason." -cliff geertz
Sadly, this sort of thing surprises me not one bit. Every year my daughter, who has Down Syndrome, has played a team sport, there has been some grief over her level of participation. Luckily it was never from the coaches; however, this is not exactly uncommon, except in that bodily harm was done.
Personally, I'd take a baseball bat to the guy's groin.
“And, remember: there's no 'I' in 'irony'†~ Merlin Mann
I can't believe that, that's so wrong in so many ways. T-ball for 8-year olds isn't even about winning, it's about fun for the kids and teaching them the right way to do things, teamwork and all that jazz.
Despite that, this fool wanted to win so bad he would have a disabled kid hurt. How could any human being possibly form and execute that whacked idea? What a sick ****.
I think somehow it does (yeah, not cause and effect thing...). Don't you see it's just extreme of what we see...everywhere? So one could say that in case of this coach changes in his behaviour are quantitative, not qualitative (note: irrelevent at this level of discussion is the question why they changed like that; the reasons of changes may well be qualitative...), which turned out to manifest in this disturbant way.
You could use that logic train to rail against anything even remotely competitive just because one individual misbehaves. Whatever happened to a person being responsible for their actions and not blaming them actions on society?
"HEY....we gotta ban chess because....."
Dr. Mordrid
Dr. Mordrid ---------------------------- An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.
I carry a gun because I can't throw a rock 1,250 fps
Uhmm...no, that's not the point. If something is competitive but the results are acceptable socially...than it's OK. If they're not - that doesn't mean they changed in qualitative way. Just saying that, nothing more. And actually, since you seem to imply that I'm lifting responsibility from the individual - I'm doing the opposite.
Nowhere, This kind of stuff is common to every country/culture in the world!
It's not exclusive to or particularly more common in the US
If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.
Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..."
BEAR, Delaware. -- A former pediatric nurse has been charged with trying to poison her toddler son by injecting human feces into his bloodstream.
Stephanie McMullen, 29, was charged Thursday with assault and reckless endangerment counts and released on bail.
Doctors at the hospital where McMullen worked alerted police that her 22-month-old son had been hospitalized six times since he was four months old for "serious, potentially life-threatening illnesses," acting police chief Lt. Col. Scott McLaren said.
During one examination, doctors found E. coli, a bacteria found in feces, in the boy's bloodstream, and said the only way it could have entered the bloodstream was "through injection, not consumption."
"This could have eventually led to the death of the child," McLaren said.
A search of McMullen's hospital locker turned up needles, a syringe holder and an intravenous line tap, and an examination of her home computer indicated she had been researching child poisoning, according to court records.
McLaren said the woman could have Munchausen syndrome by proxy, in which caregivers cause illnesses in children or exaggerate their symptoms in an effort to draw attention to themselves.
McMullen's attorney, Elwood Eveland Jr., said the child has an eating disorder, and that he has consulted with a medical expert who believes that what the child is suffering is part of a medical condition.
He said police have "absolutely no evidence of an objective nature" against her.
The boy was placed in foster care, and McMullen is scheduled to appear in Family Court next week to try to regain custody.
Dr. Mordrid
Dr. Mordrid ---------------------------- An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.
I carry a gun because I can't throw a rock 1,250 fps
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