Playground game 'British Bulldog' kills 8 year old
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I used to love this game, this and manhunt was awesome
I used to play this with a twist.
On Wednesdays me and a few friends used to go to the local sports complex ([URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Regent"]Fort Regent[/URL]) and join the Roller Disco (basically roller-blading in a large circle much like ice-skating rinks).
We would rally everyone up and start playing Bulldog but with around 60 people, and with roller blades it would always turn out to be a slightly bloody mess. Needless to say it got stopped after the first few weeks but we'd actually go as far as to organize unofficial ones at the local skate park. A few kids broke bones and one got concussion. And no word of a lie, there was a zip line and cable cars into into the skate park and many other areas of the facility and people would do stupid shit into crowds and ramps to get more speed, in fact it used to get quite horrific.
Poor kid, I always refused to play if there were girls because they always got hurt and ruined it but this is so sad.
I invented a game in primary school I named "Violence-ball"
You basically had an object to use as a ball, you then throw it in the air as high as you can.
While the ball is in the air you beat the shit out of each other to stop them catching it.
If you catch it without it hitting the floor you earn 2 points
If if touches the floor and you're able to hold onto it for 5 seconds then you earn 1 point.
So what killed her was a laceration of the liver caused by falling onto something that happened to be a recycled component from the railway. The lesson here is to make sure there's nothing you can fall on when rough-housing. What people will walk away with is that it's too dangerous to allow children to play anything ever.
We did this during hockey practice. Wasn't fun when the "tagger person" was a 250lb defense man.
[QUOTE=PulpedFiction;42755827]I remember playing that game in school, it was so much fun! Here's to hoping an unfortunate accident won't give way to hyperbole and stop kids from enjoying themselves.[/QUOTE]
According to the daily mail, the parents want it banned
[url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2487247/British-bulldog-death-Freya-James.html[/url]
[quote]Since her death, Freya’s parents Nick and Anekke James, from Twickenham, have called for a nationwide ban on British Bulldog in playgrounds.
Mr James, 42, said : ‘I hope our daughter’s death will lead to a more widespread ban.’
Read more: [url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2487247/British-bulldog-death-Freya-James.html#ixzz2jorfVqdi[/url]
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[QUOTE=Rent-a-BoxHouse;42761632]Pfft, screw that, just give them lots of bubble wrap and they'll just spend all of their free time popping it[/QUOTE]
No, they might hurt their fingers.
[QUOTE=pansarkurt;42757725]"Under hökens vingar", which translates to "under the wings of the hawk".[/QUOTE]
Brutal.
In middle school a bunch of kids played this, but with a foot ball(so the teachers thought they were just playing touch football if they asked) a kid snapped his femur and was in a wheel chair for the rest of the year, and in crutches most of the next year.
I used to play it, except you could only tag players by throwing a ball at them and hitting them.
Judging from all these first hand accounts in this thread, I think kids might be safer playing Blind Man's Bluff in a quarry.
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