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Toronto School Bans Hard Balls
In an attempt to finally "think of the children," Earl Beatty Public school has prohibited students from playing with balls after a "few serious incidents" in which students and staff were hit or almost hit by balls. From the article: "The happy days of kicking a ball around at recess ended Monday after students took home a letter advising that henceforth, no child could bring a soccer ball, football, volleyball or even tennis ball to the junior and senior school in the area of Coxwell and Danforth Aves." I assume all lunches will soon be taken via feeding tube to minimize choking hazards.
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Will they ban pencils, because they can be sharpened into "stabbing weapons?"
In the days where there are lawsuit trolls roaming the earth trying to turn any mishap into $$$, I can't really blame them.
Ban on hard balls- does that mean I should stop using the thigh master with my sack?
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Yep, that says it all.
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I call bullshit, you are a passive aggressive American who wants to paint socialism in a shitty light. This has nothing to do with Canada's economy.
soccer ball, football, volleyball or even tennis ball
None of those listed are even hard! What do they consider soft, Nerf?
Stop thinking of the children and their balls.. That's not what we ment when we said 'think of the children'.
Where I come from, they're called public schools.
The actions of this school are of course absurd, and they are being made fun of for good reason across the globe.
Except - I must point out one fact. Most US schools don't even have recess anymore. Having a ball to play with would be pointless.
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First, a story about a Boeing "Penetrator". Now, a summary about balls. "In an attempt to finally "think of the children" Earl Beatty Publid school has prohibited students from playing with balls" practically shoves it in your face. Dick jokes... actually, are still pretty funny. Nevermind go right ahead.
The ban on hard balls being brought to school is a “proactive measure. It’s also a preventative measure,”
Yes. That would work as a preventative too. Most schools take a slightly... different approach, but I suppose banning balls period works too. To prevent head injuries.
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How can they ban this?
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Baby food might be a good idea if you want to reduce choking hazard.
Almost as wacky, I mean, zany; no, I mean bombastic as US laws .. or so I'm led to believe by the news these days.
Probably next ban saying "Eh!"
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Distinct possibility of frivolous lawsuits cause ban on hard balls at Toronto school.
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i was expecting the old governor to say "knives and stabbing weapons"
November 7, the entire school board for my county of 60,000 residents went up for election. Only 2000 people voted. Several of the board members ran uncontested. The rest were reelected.
If you don't like crap like this, get yourself or someone you trust on the school board. It can't be that hard!
The general voting public ignores local politics, which is much more important for day to day life.
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Why is this on here?! This is not at all tech or nerd related and it is completely overblown. If your RTFA you'll see it is ONE SCHOOL enacting a temporary measure because they have 350 kids on a playground that is too small which also includes a day care with toddlers. I don't even know why the "toronto news" thought this was newsworthy let alone slashdot.
Proof of the Big Nerf Industrial Complex is alive and well, and heavily lobbying in Canada...
no child could bring a soccer ball, football, volleyball or even tennis ball
Better learn cricket or hockey then. Those games have nice soft balls that are completely armless.
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This has nothing to do with socialism. When I went to a catholic high school 30 years ago (yes, 1981), hard balls were banned. We were only allowed to use soft balls which were being sold in the school shop.
This whole "think of the children" is getting out of hand. I remember growing up climbing trees, using a tall spiral slide, and playing on monkey bars. Could I have gotten hurt? Sure, but scrapes, bruises, and learning how to fall is a part of growing up. If you remove all possible ways for a child to develop his motor skills and learn how to deal with an occasional "oops" when they get hurt, we are going to grow up with a bunch of kids who prefer to sit out of sports and other social events.
This is life, shit happens. People can get hurt and or killed at any point in their life. Banning sports balls is not the answer.
We used to use these so called "hard" balls explicitly to throw at people with the intent to hit them. I believe they called it a "game"... Ball tag?
Schools will attempt to ban any and everything that could possibly be fun even if there is no chance of someone getting hurt (trading hockey cards was banned from my elementary school), its ridiculous.
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Why is it not tagged yro?
Rocks are not balls and you can still play catch, baseball, hockey, etc. with them.
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They're playing hardball.
My English school banned hard balls in the playground in the 1980s (for fear of windows more than of kids, I'm fairly sure). We played with sponge balls instead. I'm fairly sure it didn't irreparably damage my childhood. Or make the international news.
..the most serious injury at the school to date involved a parent, who was hit in the head by a soccer ball and suffered a concussion.
If that parent can suffer a concussion from a soccer ball kicked by a kid then they need to wear a helmet whenever they leave the house. Don't punish everybody else for having a skull made out of jello.
Well this is toronto, so it's pretty damn typical of the over-reaction. Then again this is the same city that has flown in the face and allowed segregated based schools, and religious discrimination to occur on the tax payer dole, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
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Round rocks ARE balls!
Kids learn by doing things. Some things have nice results, some are unpleasant. They don't do the unpleasant things again. Part of the reason for having them learn in a school is that it is an environment where they can be guided and with adults around the effects of the unpleasant can be switfly dealt with.
So kids will now not learn that intercepting a hard ball with your head might hurt. They will do that outside of school where if they get knocked down there will not be a responsible adult who can act swiftly -- on the rare occasion that it might be needed. Tell me: is that better or worse for the kids ?
What this is about is cowardly school staff that want to avoid any scintilla of responsibility for minor accidents. The are completely aborgating their responsibility, the responsibility that we expect them to take, the responsibility for which they are paid. Shame of these pathetic, lilly livered apologies for teachers. The only thing that they deserve is our utter contempt.
Their co-conspiritors in this are the money grabbing lawyers who encourage people to sue over exaggerated injuries. They do this not to recompense someone for a trivial bump on the head but to swell their own incomes.
At the end of it: society is poorer for this sort of mentality.
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Yes, this is ridiculous, but it has always annoyed me that some people believe that they have the right to throw these things wherever they please. In class, knocking over stuff, making messes, and they think that it is fine. So, I kind of agree with them.
Why do people really need to worry about this? Kids play, they get hurt, they get better, and stronger, and hopefully smarter. I propose we buy little Aerons for all schoolkids because those plastic stackable chairs suck and will hurt their backs. Many kids aren't athletic, and that's fine, but many/most kids like playing throw/hit the ball games, and they should be allowed to.
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It's a publid school. Thery're not too bright there, can't even spell.
Many kids today are inactive and do everything to play sports. School is an environment to grow, learn, play and socialize. Sports seems to fit this very well.
A colleague of mine at work said their 8 yr old son was sent home from school on Halloween, because their outfit was 'too scary'. The parents got a letter and other kids were apparently dismissed. He had a mummy or vampire costume mom had made him.
I don't have kids yet. It seems odd that the generation that grew out of having hippie pot smoking, acid dropping, heavy metal parents to their kids who, like myself, grew up listening to and enjoying even crazier music and exposed to more sex, drugs and alcohol are the same that are deeply offended by 'scary' Halloween costumes or kids playing sports at school.
I live in Toronto and compared to what goes on in the rest of the city, playing with your (or other people's) balls should be the least of parents' concerns. (pun intended),
This wouldn't happen if the administration had a set of balls.
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as long as they're still allowed to play hockey.
This wasn't brought on by a series of injuries, but a series on "incidents". People were getting hit or almost hit. Oh No! One of those people hit got a concussion! Yes, concussions can be serious, but if you let your kids get any kinds of exercise at all they run the risk of a concussion. I got a concussion falling off a jungle gym. No balls involved at all.
One concussion and some bruises or abrasions is no reason to ban a fun form of exercise. No one ever suggested I stop climbing on things after I hurt myself. (I know that since I've left school, people have made that demand of today's kids, but that's just as unreasonable.
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Thats just what this is-stupidity. They are a bunch of clueless idiots up north.
But these kid where using ball cannons they fashioned from information the got from Instructables. This enabled them to shoot their balls at velocities 100's of feet per second at other students and teachers. These were scary devices that may have seriously smashed the balls of innocent bystanders.
if we ban Hardball, then Earl Weaver and RBI have to be banned too!
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I don't know how it works in the USA, but I would have thought "hard balls" only encompasses things like baseballs and hockey pucks (and maybe lacross - I can't remember for sure, but I watched my cousin play a few games when I was in CA and I seem to recall I did not want to get hit by the ball).
Here in Australia I would classify cricket balls as hard balls as well. Hockey balls (my g/f plays grass hockey) as well.
Banning hard balls, I could in some way understand - those things can cause some pretty serious injuries. I recall hearing about people getting killed in cricket games when the ball hits them in the chest hard enough to affect their heart. And of course head injuries are pretty common.
I still think it would be complete bullshit, of course - having grown up playing cricket and T-ball here I think it teaches absolutely invaluable skills about risk assessment and management. I would say that having hard balls thrown at you is pretty much a daily occurrence for children in Australia (although it's been a while since I was in school).
But seriously, soccer balls? Footballs? VOLLEY BALLS? Volley balls are practically made of air. American footballs might be dangerous if you cop the pointy end in an eye socket, but the vast, vast, vast majority of injuries you could possibly get from one of those balls are trivial.
This seems like a classic case of being blinded by one statistically insignificant incident, and massively over-reacting in a way that will disadvantage almost everyone to protect almost noone in any meaningful way.
Hey! That sounds sort of familiar.
You know how many times I got hurt playing soccer and floor hockey during lunch and recess? No one cared and you looked cool with scars in front of the ladies.
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... is this the same school that first stopped keeping scores in soccer because they didn't want to "emotionally harm" the losing side?
I weep for the species.
Operation Guillotine is in effect.
Socialism paints itself in a shitty light without any help.
Actually, we know that it works perfectly well. It's going swimmingly even in countries that are still nominally communist.
What capitalism requires, however, is that you get your ass out and work hard at something, instead of hanging around in a park all day, living in a tent, banging drums, trashing businesses that actually employ people, chanting "Hey hey, ho ho" and whining that people who worked for what they have shouldn't be allowed to have it and some should be taken away and given to you.
In the Occupy version of the story about the grasshopper and the ant, I can see the grasshopper being turned into some kind of oppressed hero, held down by the evil ant, rather than being the victim of his own stupid choices. Ain't communism grand?
Google maps shows a urban JK-8 school with a tiny green space and playground.
The street level view is crowded.
There is a small area set aside with a handful of shade trees, a slide, climbers, etc., for the youngest kids.
A running track frames the play area for the older ones.
There is a batting cage at the far end of the field, but no other permanent structures.
You could probably safely practice and play some team sports here under controlled conditions. But 350 kids on break each doing their own thing?
I don't think so.
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Looks like the school has removed the contacts on their web site. If anyone would like to email the school regarding this, here are the email details
Superintendent
Roula.Anastasakos@tdsb.on.ca
General inbox for the school
EarlBeatty@tdsb.on.ca
Enjoy!
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In the Occupy version of the story about the grasshopper and the ant, I can see the grasshopper being turned into some kind of oppressed hero, held down by the evil ant, rather than being the victim of his own stupid choices. Ain't communism grand?
In the capitalist version, the ant labors all day long for sustenance, with the vast majority of their labor taken by the queen. If they complain about what they feel their share of the labor should be, they are told that if they work hard enough they can be a queen too. All billions of them. Then they're all ridiculed for not being queens, for being stupid and working for some queen, for not being rich, and so on.
Really, the capitalist world would be a happier place if it would just make with the soma already and drill into the alphas and betas that they should be thankful for the deltas and epsilons for doing all the hard labor rather than taunting them.
it isn't just the tests throwing softballs at the kids now is it?
They use pucks not balls.
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Head injuries account for between 4% and 22% of all soccer injuries.
In soccer, concussions make up 2-3% of all injuries. This is the same rate as for American football!
A study involving men's and women's college soccer teams from the Atlantic Coast Conference found a total of 29 concussions in a 2-year period. The most common cause of the concussions was when one player's head struck the head of another player. This was also the most common source of concussions in a group of soccer players at the US Olympic Sport Festival in 1993. The second most common cause of concussions occurred when a ball struck a player's head. These head-to-ball concussions happened when a player was hit in the head by a ball kicked from close range. In many cases, the ball traveled so quickly the player did not have time to react. NONE of the concussions were caused by proper heading of the ball. Heading the ball, however, is not without consequences. A player may head the ball many times during practice sessions and about eight times during a game. Many players at the 1993 US Olympic Festival experienced headaches after heading the ball. These headaches lasted from a few seconds to several days.
A Norwegian study found that 35% of 69 Division I soccer players had abnormal electroencephalogram (EEG) patterns. This is more than twice the rate of abnormal EEG patterns in control subjects. Retired soccer players had several brain abnormalities including reduced cortical tissue and increased lateral ventricle size.
Soccer players also seem to perform more poorly than control subjects on some types of IQ tests and many former players (81%) suffer from problems with attention, concentration, and memory. Players who typically head the ball have also been found to have more neurological problems than non-headers. Compared to goalies and midfielders ("non-headers"), forwards and defenders ("headers") performed more poorly on some memory, visual perception and planning tests.
Most of the data come from players at the elite level who have played soccer for many years. Professional soccer players head the ball thousands of times during their careers. There has not been much research on the effects of heading the soccer ball on children or recreational players. Although helmets may protect players from concussions, their usefulness has not been tested. At least one company is selling helmets to be used by children while playing soccer.
So, how can head injuries be reduced and minimized? Here are some recommendations:
Players should have proper instruction on the correct way to head the ball.
The ball should be the appropriate size for the age of the players. Smaller balls are less likely to cause injury. Also, make sure the ball is inflated properly.
Use "no heading" rules for younger players. If a player is not allowed to head the ball, the ball is less likely to hit a player's head.
Use padded goalposts.
Soccer and the Brain
"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools." Herbert Spencer
With them taking such an aggressive stance on hard balls, I can only imagine what they have for future plans with regulating hard cocks...
What was missing from the summary is that the serious incident that set this event off was a parent who was hit in the head and ended up with a concussion. Apparently instead of dealing with the one student, they chose to ban balls outright.
There is a good deal of emphasis on the news that the ban is temporary, but that just seems silly to me - if you admit you are going to allow balls again, then why ban them at all?
Another interesting thing that happened in response was a student protest (We Want Our Balls Back). Picture school aged children (grade school, not high school) protesting. You'll see in the article one student exclaimed "“You can take our balls, but you can’t take our freedom!”
It is also somewhat interesting to note that one of the local newscaster's children went to the school and thought it was ridiculous. His comment was (on the subject of a post above) "I've been hurt more by a pencil."
So, it should be clarified in defence of Canadians, that we think it is rather crazy too.
I went to kindergarten at this school and almost drowned while on a class trip, I'm ok with them taking a safety-focused approach.
Not even a few kilometres away, the city of Hamilton for the longest time banned ANY sort of playing with balls (kicking, throwing, hitting with another object) without a permit. So playing ball hockey in the street, or even baseball ON A BASEBALL DIAMOND was illegal without city permission.
This is my neighbourhood school. I attended it about fourteen years ago.
My parents, along with many others, had to spend months arguing with the principal and vice-principal to convince them that it was worth running any extracurricular programs at the school, despite the school board providing funding explicitly for that purpose. When she was finally convinced, it was entirely the responsibility of the parents to organize it. Naturally, all of the parents involved got their students out the school within the next couple of years, and there were no more extracurriculars.
I don't recognize the principal named in the article, but apparently the tradition of stupidity continues.
Kinda like yourself then?
Idiot.
Why would you give children landmines? You probably peel the 'DO NOT EAT' stickers off of them before you hand them off, too....
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
Well we already know that capitalism doesn't work, so I can only assume this is a heartfelt wish for communism to come to the fore.
From what I have read of capitalism, I believe it would work. We should try it here in the U.S.
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We previously discussed all the articles in the press about Waldorf schools http://tech.slashdot.org/submission/1826506/a-silicon-valley-school-that-doesnt-use-computers. Waldorf schools have balls. And rocks. And knives.
My daughter is now 12 and in sixth grade at the Waldorf school here in Pittsburgh. She's been going there ever since nursery school.
When I first visited the Waldorf school to see if I wanted my daughter there, I went into the nursery class. I looked at the toys there, which were all "natural" and indeed, the wooden and knitted toys had all been made by kids in the upper grades. But I saw a big basket full of river rocks. "You give these to kindergarten kids to play with? Won't they throw them at each other, or hit someone in the head?" "Well, one of the main things we teach in preschool is socialization. Kids have to learn how to not do things like that. So we don't see any problem."
In the kindergarten, kids bake their own biscuits in the oven for snack, and use sharp knives to cut up apples for the snacks as well. "Kids need to learn basic safety, and the earlier, the better."
Out in the play yard, there was a sign with a list of rules. One of them was "No smearing mud on the fence or buildings." Didn't say anything about other kids or even teachers. There was also a rule about climbing trees. One tree was OK for all kids to climb. The other was only for those in the upper grades, as the limbs were too far apart.
The Waldorf school kids get their share of bumps and bruises, most of which don't get reported as they get up, dust themselves off, and keep going. Doesn't seem to be much in the way of major injuries, though. And the kids are always remarked-upon as seeming "mature for their age." I guess bubble wrap is bad for fostering maturity.
Which brings up a question. In middle school, our Waldorf school will teach basic computer programming, and has a fair bit of latitude in doing so. So, for such a school, what's the best way for them to learn it? I admit that I have a predilection for the way I learned it: setting little switches and then pressing a button to program our medical school's Cromemco Z-80 computer byte by byte, learning all about registers and PUSH and POP by actually doing it; only later doing things in assembler. Seems properly Waldorfian, though perhaps the students should have to build the computer with soldering irons. What do you think?
America is full of similar-minded pussies, from what I read on the internets.
Yes, I'm Canadian.
These days the pussies are making friends with the mice.
You would think that schools could teach the proper use of balls. Their dangers and how to correctly handle them. Balls give enjoyment and lets groups have fun together. Guess they must now study more, though some are happy studing and some need physical motivation to fullfill a happy life. Catering to all just probally to much of a hassle with costs to high. I think they should hand out ding a lings.
I wish we had panic-stricken reactivity like this .. it would have been awesome to invent a playground game which used heavy math books and caused serious injury.
Alas, we threw tan-bark at each other, played british bulldogs and suffered the trauma of mathematics.
Why is this relevant news to this site? Has /. become Fark?
This is also an elementary school in the middle of Toronto. It has limited yard space, and hence, not much room for kids to share a relatively small space.
Back in Catholic elementary school, they let us kick an inflated red rubber ball (soccer ball size) around the yard for recess. Well one day, the ball was kicked pretty hard and accidentally hit a nun in the head, temporarily knocking her unconscious. (could have been due to hitting the ground - depending on witness) Good times.
..the most serious injury at the school to date involved a parent, who was hit in the head by a soccer ball and suffered a concussion.
If that parent can suffer a concussion from a soccer ball kicked by a kid then they need to wear a helmet whenever they leave the house.
Eh, not really -- I've gotten a concussion that way (quite mild, I guess I was out 2-5 seconds) , and I'm no jellohead. Just damned unlucky to catch a goal kick square in the back of the head from one of the strongest legs in 10th grade. Sustained probably a couple dozen other head-ball collisions (mostly headers, some accidents) with nothing more than a headache.
Don't punish everybody else for having a skull made out of jello.
Agreed on that -- it's a (small, IMO worthwhile) risk you take playing or standing around a soccer field, which is why spectators need to face the action and keep their eyes open. If not, stay the fuck home.
Now it must be a girl only school.
Yes, I'm Canadian. Consider how lucky you are to live in America. If you live in the UK, you're worse off.
Of course, you will have bit more trouble explaining to Swedish people that socialism doesn't work.
But carry on, please...
They're just raising these kids to learn to be good Canadians. Everything is dangerous if mishandled. That's why everything is illegal here. People can't think for themselves.. they *need* a nanny state. Besides, if it wasn't a good system, why would China and Russia have adopted it? Even as far as going back to it after flirting with freedom last decade, as in Russia's case.. and look at the US.. they're tripping over themselves to adopt this kind of a state. Just keep the word 'Democracy' in there somewhere, as in Russia, and everybody'll be happy. Ask Putin. He knows..
I’m willing to bet the principal in that school does not wear anything with a zipper because they are dangerous, he could get his penis caught on it, because certainly he has no brains. Also, pencil sharpeners could cut the fingers if little kids were going to put them inside. Desks have hard surfaces. They should be made of some softer material, but make sure the surface is perfectly smooth so does not accumulate bacteria. And school walls and roofs should be eliminated as they could collapse in an earthquake. Another great danger comes from electricity, so that should not be allowed anywhere in the school either, specially considering that having no walls would live the cables exposed. On the same note, piping is rather hard, so there will be no water in the empty lot where the school used to be. And since there is nothing to stop the sun rays, the school should close because they cannot afford to be insured against the risk of the kids contracting skin cancer due to be outdoors all day. Let us all go back to the stone age!
Schools are going too far with this. Most public shools in the U.S. don't allow dodgeball in gym class. It has come to the point where there are less sports played and more team building activities in gym class. If a child can't handle simple physical competitive sports that they might as well quit at life because it only gets harder.
If you provide the children with too safe an environment, they will be useless when they are later released into normal life.
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I can understand banning hard cocks, with the children and everything, but there is no reason to ban a hard set of balls.
I really doubt anyone is bashing them off the kids faces? Maybe I'm wrong, but then again what kind of school is this?
I suppose a ban on hockey is next...
They all bounce off a skull without endangering life. A cricket ball is hard.
Sign that kid up.
[...] after a "few serious incidents" in which students and staff were hit or almost hit by balls
For crying out loud.
what about hockey pucks?
Pretty soon our children will be so safe they won't know how to do anything. A risk-free world is a do-nothing world.
Sorry, but gray text on gray background is making my eyes bleed.
I guess kids who attend this school have no intentions of joining the NFL, the NBA and I suppose pro boxing is off the list as well. Really, physical development is important. Getting hurt is part of life.
Pfft yeah and I will ask Narnia hows it hanging while I am at it. Stop making up fake countries.
I guess I can't go in the building!
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When balls are outlawed, only the outlaws will have balls.
Great... now all the jocks are going spend recess learning Python, and in 15 years when the market is completely saturated, I'm going to be out a job.
Have they swapped out all mechanical mice with optical mice?
Until you have played ball hockey in the winter, with one of those orange balls from Canadian Tire, which has frozen solid, and someone takes a slapshot with it, and hits you in the balls, you are not entirely Canadian yet.
I'll take one of those in the head any day of the week over the "LBI".
Balls of all types were banned at my kids middle school due to a kid getting ball in the face. This ban lasted one week when the school was flooded with calls from irate parents telling them that they are being idiots. I called the school, and wrote the to local school board. In this case it was a single over zealous vp at this one school.
This was also in Canada, but the west coast.
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I think the real story here is that Canadians have balls. Who knew?
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