It's official, US is country of wimps.

[sammyg2]

The PC pussification of America is now complete:

North Carolina Campus Police Arrest Student During Snowball Fight

Friday, January 23, 2009 AP

GREENVILLE, N.C. — Campus police at East Carolina University said they made one arrest and used pepper spray on some students as officers tried to control a huge snowball fight on campus.

Police were called to a dormitory three times as more than 200 students pelted each other with snowballs as a rare snowstorm dropped several inches of snow in eastern North Carolina on Tuesday, The Daily Reflector of Greenville reported Thursday.

Some witnesses said they were hit hard by indiscriminately hurled snowballs.

"It all started in good nature, but then people were throwing them as hard as they could at each other. They were everywhere," said junior Brandon Davis, noting he got hit in the head.

He said a girl was knocked to the ground after being hit in the face with a snowball thrown from 10 feet away, while another student cried after getting hit in the eye.

Police said an officer used pepper spray on a group of students that rushed officers trying to make an arrest. Authorities estimate between 200 and 250 people were involved, but no serious injuries were reported.

Matt Lunchick, a junior, said he saw an officer tackle and arrest a student after the officer was hit with a snowball in the back. He also said officers told some students not to dump tubs of snow into cars.

Steven Rashad Bass, 18, was arrested and charged with assault on a government official, and resisting, delaying and obstructing a law enforcement officer. He was later released from the Pitt County Detention Center, jail officials said Thursday.

Bass was scheduled to appear in court March 3. His telephone number couldn't be found, and he didn't immediately return an e-mail Thursday.

[Aerkuld]

Snow should be banned. It's very dangerous!

[Gogar]

OUCH, my feelings!

[Heel n Toe]

My favorite part of that article is "a group of students that rushed officers trying to make an arrest."

Those guys weren't screwing around.

What's the deal with "indiscriminately hurled snowballs?" If you can't put the thing in the strike zone, I say get back in the dorm and watch from the window.

[dafischer]

Hell, I'm sure if anyone was apprehended with a slush ball, they're probably off to Gitmo.

[Rikao4]

oh god..their going to snowboard him..
quick call the ACLU..

Rika

[bivenator]

Sounds like a good time.

[ckissick]

I saw another story today about a high school girl's basketball team that beat another team 100-0. They felt so bad later on that they forfeited the win. Excellence is no longer celebrated, it is now shunned.

It wasn't cool to run up the score, but they could have given the other team a simple Balushi-Animal House "sorry" and been done with it. Not give the other team a win.

[Pazuzu]

Originally Posted by ckissick

I saw another story today about a high school girl's basketball team that beat another team 100-0. They felt so bad later on that they forfeited the win. Excellence is no longer celebrated, it is now shunned.

It wasn't cool to run up the score, but they could have given the other team a simple Balushi-Animal House "sorry" and been done with it. Not give the other team a win.

You didn't read the whole story, did you?

The team that lost was from a school composed completely of developmentally challenged kids. Severe ADD, etc. They could barely stay on the court for the duration of the game, much less play.

[Jeff Higgins]

Unbelievable. On so many levels it's hard to even know where to start.

[dhoward]

So?
About the basketball game, I mean.
If you can't play, for whatever reason, you can't play.

Snowball things just stupid.
Bring on the zombies.

[Rick Lee]

My prep school's student handbook had a clause that "students have an unalienable right to throw snowballs." Yes, really. But I got tagged by one in 10th grade thrown by a guy who later made it to the Japanese major leagues. His arm was a rocket. I think my leg still hurts from that one.

[speeder]

Snowball fights are a blast but I can tell which people are from the south or places that don't sno
w. A packed ice ball, (all you need is wet snow for this), thrown by a 6'4" college baseball player or
"any jock with a good arm can really hurt someone. I'm not kidding. I think Sammy would cry like a little girl after a couple of those to the head.

One rule of engagement in a proper snowball fight is no civilian casualties. We were in a steeped battle with neighborhood insurgents in St. Paul once many years ago when the enemy breached a cease fire while my little cousin Sheila Delaney crossed. Someone from the other side threw a ball that either hit or just missed her and her older brother, my cousin, walked across and blasted their biggest guy in the mouth with a glove-less fist.

I miss the snow sometimes and I'm so glad that I grew up in it

EDIT: Rick beat me to it.

[dhoward]

There is no honor amongst combatants anymore.

[Rick Lee]

Well, when I was a kid, there was honor among snowball warriors. We fought hard, but when it was time to regroup or tend to the wounded, ceasefires were honored.

True story. I was once walking to the dining hall at my prep school in the dark when a snowball from far away grazed my nose. I picked up the very same snowball. actually iceball, and tossed it back to the group of shadows I thought had thrown it. I saw one figure fall down and I ran. A hour later I saw a kid walk into the dining hall with an ice pack on his stitched lip. The infirmary was right nextdoor. They never found me out, but I ran into that kid in a backyard party about 10 yrs. ago in VA and saw him again driving on the Beltway about a year ago.

[Schumi]

Originally Posted by ckissick

I saw another story today about a high school girl's basketball team that beat another team 100-0. They felt so bad later on that they forfeited the win. Excellence is no longer celebrated, it is now shunned.

No way. That is unacceptable for human beings. A wheelchair team of cripple girls against a full normal girls team should still be able to get one point in over 100. Seriously, I feel sorry for the losing team, but not because they lost a basketball game.. but because they are probably losing at life.


That sounded harsh. Oh well, I'm sticking to it.

[Heel n Toe]

Originally Posted by Rick Lee

They never found me out, but.....

Thing is, if they or the kid who got hit had somehow found you out, they'd have no justification for being ticked at you... the very thing that happened to them, they had tried to make happen to you.

Cool story.

[bivenator]

Here in the south we had pine cone fights. A sharp hard one could take an ear off.

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by speeder

"any jock with a good arm can really hurt someone. I'm not kidding. I think Sammy would cry like a little girl after a couple of those to the head.

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I grew up in Salt Lake City where we had plenty of snowball fights.
I also had three brothers. The oldest ended up pitching in pro baseball. He was clocked at over 96 mph in COLLEGE at Cal state Fullerton playing for Auggie Gorrido. During high school and his career at CSUF, he never lost a game. IIRC his ERA was less than 1.
He ended up playing in 5 different world series in his life, from little league to college.
I got tagged too many times by a good ice ball from him, never cried. That wasn't allowed.

[The Gaijin]

One of the top three dumbest things I did as a kid was hit a tow truck with a snowball. The driver was not amused.

Cops were relentless if you hit their car. They took it personally. I remember hiding in a snowy ditch for an hour as they had the searchlights out. That was fun!