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Fri 4 Jun, 2010 08:01 pm
Teenager Has Testicle Amputated After 'Tapping' Game
A Minnesota teenager had to have his testicle amputated after being punched in the groin by a classmate, KARE11.com reported Friday.
David Gibbons, 14, was changing classes in his Crosby, Minn. 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 realized 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, Minn. 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, Minn. 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 humor. It's not a game anymore. People get hurt," he added.
This memory from about grade 6 (11 years old
Whats the capital of Thailand?
BANGCOCK (punches friend in groin.)
I never understood what was funny about crotch shots. On America's Funniest Home Videos, without those they would have to close up shop.
@edgarblythe,
i think ida had to have them save the nut, so's i could feed it to the other kid when i recovered...
what kinda **** passes for fun these days, anyway???
@edgarblythe,
edgarblythe wrote:
I never understood what was funny about crotch shots. On America's Funniest Home Videos, without those they would have to close up shop.
those and children getting hurt.
@edgarblythe,
This kid is half way to winning a Darwin Award.
Quote:So how are the Darwin Awards actually determined?
Nominees significantly improve the gene pool by eliminating themselves from the human race in an obviously stupid way. They are self-selected examples of the dangers inherent in a lack of common sense, and all human races, cultures, and socioeconomic groups are eligible to compete. Actual winners must meet the following criteria:
Reproduction
Out of the gene pool: dead or sterile.
Excellence
Astounding misapplication of judgment.
Self-Selection
Cause one's own demise.
Maturity
Capable of sound judgment.
Veracity
The event must be true.
@edgarblythe,
Hello, edgar.
I came here to find out what "sack tappers" actually means. Never heard the term before.
(Maybe because I was never a boy?)
Goodness me!
Sounds like it could be quite a dangerous activity!
@msolga,
there seems little up side to it, msO...
(hurts thinking about it)
@msolga,
I'm glad I have never heard of such nonsense and practice. Maybe its a generational thing?
@tsarstepan,
I taught in all boys schools a while back, for a few years.
Some of the games played in fun where really quite physically & psychologically aggressive. Boys used to get hurt. Occasionally quite seriously.
I really felt for those boys with gentler natures. There seemed to be little escape from it. All they wanted was to be left alone, to be left out of such games. But mostly they weren't.
(I am just waiting for someone to turn up here telling us that such games are good, manly, character-building activities. Good for boys. And that we are a bunch of mamby-pambies for expressing any concern. What do you reckon?
)
With me in grade school, it was the shoulder punchers. I went to a number of schools, because we frequently moved. Seems I always attracted the kid that wanted to trade slugs. I would reciprocate a few times, to be a good sport. From then on, the kid would stalk me to continue the game. You have to get really mean to make these kids back off.
@edgarblythe,
HAve you seen the VW ad where everybody punches each other when a VW is spotted? Thats a game that I always imagined that only Australians would take an interest in. In US the puncher would get shot.
@farmerman,
In the late fifties and later, I observed people in Texas playing "Punchbug". That is slugging someone each time a VW beetle is observed. I think my kids also played it. I have seen those new commercials. One even had Stevie Wonder punch somebody when one went by.
As I suspected, there is a great list of youtubes on the subject. Please don't anyone post any here.
@edgarblythe,
it's "slug-bug", just for the record.
(we hadda put a stop to it when I was in Indiana. her kid was kinda psycho about it)
@Rockhead,
Probably depends on the region.
@edgarblythe,
I s'pose some regions are sillier and less able to rhyme than others...
ya know, we've now had over 100 folks look at a thread warning people that letting someone plunk you in the balls may be hazardous to your well-being.
ain't the internet awesome...?
Now they just announce the color and swing away.
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