Playground game 'British Bulldog' kills 8 year old
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Should be called pitbull now.
They wouldn't let us play Bulldog at our school, but they let us play "octopus" which is the same game but renamed, and they were totally fine with it
This could have happened with any game.
Wow thats pretty sad... She must have been hit really hard to do that kind of damage. I know what we should do! Ban every form of children's game and have them wear bubble wrap. Viola this wont happen again. :rolleyes:
[QUOTE=Mr._N;42756624]This could have happened with any game.[/QUOTE]
Doesn't matter. It's something fun so it [i]must[/i] be banned.
Reminds me of game "passwords" we have here
except it's 100x more violent
We used to go straight up hard as fuck playing this game, it's easy to see how an accident like this happened.
In America we used to call this "Fishy-Fishy Cross My Ocean".
Man I used to love bulldog.
Used to play it in the swimming pool.
[QUOTE=errington07;42756888]We used to go straight up hard as fuck playing this game, it's easy to see how an accident like this happened.[/QUOTE]
Except the accident has nothing to do with the game being played really, they could have been playing a non contact version of it, or a simple game of tag and it still could have happened.
Fuck yeah bulldog was the best. Tag was lame cause you'd tag someone and they'd be like "meeeeh you didn't tag meeee", but in bulldog, everyone knows you got them. You get 'em good.
I survived 6 rounds as the last man standing against 13 bulldogs
Teacher gave me a Milky Way bar as a reward
[QUOTE=TheHydra;42755940]so this is like a weird mix of tag and american football?[/QUOTE]
sounds like a more chaotic version of red rover
then again i can be thinking of the wrong game.
Loved that game.
My Yr5 teacher in ye olde primary school once pulled out a piece of paper saying it was illegal to play, idk whether that's true or not, she knew jack shit about anything.
Broke my wrist playing this, tag but for MANLY MEN.
We played a similar game here in sweden called "Under hökens vingar", which translates to "under the wings of the hawk". Whoever was the one guarding the line got to choose a colour first, and if you had that colour on your clothes you had a free pass.
They all used to laugh at my rainbow underwear...
Both my secondary and primary schools banned this because there was always that one idiot who would take it over the top.
Soon, Recess will be nothing more than standing in place outside for 45 minutes
[QUOTE=TheTalon;42757809]Soon, Recess will be nothing more than standing in place outside for 45 minutes[/QUOTE]
"Don't walk! You could trip over and hurt yourself"
Love how this thread is about how a little girl died but people are so absorbed with reminiscing about playing British Bulldog
For the record, I was sick at that game.
There was always that one fucker who would keep saying he wasn't tagged when he clearly was.
Happened in dodge-ball too.
[QUOTE=The DooD;42757536]Fuck yeah bulldog was the best. Tag was lame cause you'd tag someone and they'd be like "meeeeh you didn't tag meeee", but in bulldog, everyone knows you got them. You get 'em good.[/QUOTE]
We played tackle tag. There was utterly no way to claim you did not get tagged. :P
[QUOTE=Taiset;42755986]a railway sleeper is the big block of wood that goes between the metal rails and when i mean big you wouldn`t want one falling on your foot now the bigger question is why was there one in a play ground ?[/QUOTE]They're usually used to keep mulch/sand in around playsets and what not.
In our Drama group we end up playing Bulldog, it tends to be lighter though because we don't want to be coughing whilst performing. Normally at least 5 people end up shouting near-obscenities. My primary school banned it though, and I was too busy flailing around re-enacting Spongebob episodes as a kid to see if anybody actually played it :v:
I was a strange child.
Seriously though, the game these kids were playing when somebody tripped, hit their head on something that shouldn't be there, and died, is optional in the fucking article, let alone the headline. What does it have to do with anything other than 'SHOCK HORROR IF YOU RUN AROUND YOU'RE MORE LIKELY TO HIT SOMETHING'?
In junior high school we had a game very similar to this except we would combine all of the gym classes of the period and only have 3-5 taggers. Same principle where you keep going until 1 person is left, but when you got tagged you had to sit where you were tagged and you could then tag people if they tried running past you. What ends up happening after a few rounds is clots of kids sitting on the ground start to grow limiting where you could run. Naturally people would try jumping over the kids, which wasn't allowed, but in the heat of the moment you would do anything to avoid the taggers from boxing you in. People would even try wall running to get to the safe zone. Anyway one day some kid tried to jump over another and well his knee struck her right in the face, and the game was quickly stopped.
Played that game in early secondary school. One of the safe zones was atop a small hill.
The bulldog was basically thrown across the field as everyone collided into him.
Jesus Christ. I feel so bad for the parents. Can you imagine your kid not coming home because she fucking DIED in a game at school? That'll give you anxiety for life.
On a different note, we used to play this game on a MASSIVE scale at my school. We'd get like 40 kids, play on the entire school field. I was once the last man standing, and performed the coolest "take down" ever recorded in the history of the game at our school. This really cocky kid was determined to get me the moment I stepped out of home. I ran out, he ran at me. I jumped. He jumped. I pushed that fucker mid-air like 20 god damn feet to my right and ran to the end. Best moment of my life, I swear.
We used to play this all the god damn time, primary and secondary.
Although the way we played it, it was a tag, not a tackle.
Sucks for the family though.
In 4th grade we would play this before school started. Two kids collided head first against each other causing a skull fracture in both of them. They called in life flight and a helicopter landed in the school yard.
We had bulldog (before it was banned and thus renamed but still played) and evolved it into chain, where as long as the guys who were it were touching another guy who was it, they were able to tackle people in the homezone. Was introduced because of a few fast gits who were a pain to intercept.
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