Posted on 06/04/2010 4:33:03 AM PDT by csvset
A MINNESOTA teenager had to have his testicle amputated after being punched in the groin by a classmate.
KARE11.com said David Gibbons, 14, was changing classes in his Crosby high school when he was attacked by another student playing a game called "sack tapping".
David’s mother, Christy Gibbons, said it wasn't until hours later that they realised something was wrong. "One o'clock in the morning he woke me up and told me he was in excruciating pain," she said.
David was taken to St Joseph's Hospital in Brainerd, Minnesota where surgeons removed his right testicle.
And David is not the only student who has suffered the consequences of the "sack tapping" game.
"It's just gotten way out of control," said Dr Scott Wheeler, a urologist in Brainerd, Minnesota who says he performs three to four surgeries a year on boys with ruptured testicles and other complications as a result of "sack tapping".
"All parents, you need to have this talk with your kids not to do it. It's lost its humour. It's not a game anymore. People get hurt," he added.
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Mangled genitalia ping
You’re right. Sounds like a lot of latent homosexuality bound up in that whole thing. I’m sure a shrink could have a field day with it.
This idiot shouldn’t be having children anyway...
What part of the news story led you to conclude that the boy who has his testicle ruptured is an idiot?
Teenage boys don’t have to have homosexual tendencies to hurt each other in a game - and what’s the worst pain they can imagine?
In a modern society when we give most boys (the exceptions are those engaged in rigorous sport or challenging activities like tradtional scouting) so few chances to experience real physical challenges and have no manhood rites to allow boys to endure and show how tough they are, they make up their own.
It's a second-degree felony.
I apologize...I thought he was a willing participant in this ‘game’...didn’t notice that he had been attacked.
It’s been an acceptable part of comedy films for decades.
Squirrels do something similar to each other to eliminate the weakest and insure the strongest and baddest squirrel spreads his DNA.
It’s all fun and games until someone loses a testicle.
First of all, what is “sack tapping”? Not for nothing, but people think NY is weird and dangerous. From what I read, the mid west is a lot odder with all these violent and stupid games they like to play. Is it because they are so football obsessed? I would make the sack tapper pay off the medical bill.
Hell yes, someone should be charged. It sounds like a sexual assault to me. You have to wonder why they published the kid’s name.
Games usually cannot be played involuntarily...
I'd make him pay more than that. The boy had to have his testicle amputated. This is a multi-million dollar lawsuit.
Ohhh - right in the Kaneegies.
That’s gay as hell.
It sure as hell is.
I’m gonna put my hand in the neighborhood of another males private parts?
NOT in the teen world I grew up in.
Darwin Award Winner - Self Mutilating Division
Where I’m from it’s called “Cup check,” and it’s not really a game. It’s something teens have been indoctrinated to do to cause one another pain, in the name of being funny.
“Game” is a misnomer. It’s idiotic, but they’re taught by popular media to think it’s “cool.”
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