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Statewide survey shows "ball tapping" problem widespread
News Type: Event — Seeded on Thu Nov 26, 2009 9:28 AM EST
Article Source: wthr.comadvertisement
It's a disturbing game with devastating consequences, and a new WTHR survey suggests it is rampant in Indiana schools.
"Ball tapping" is the act of intentionally hitting or kicking a male in the genitals. Earlier this month, an Eyewitness News investigation showed the game has become commonplace in some area schools, resulting in serious injuries for students.
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{"commentId":10904218,"authorDomain":"cuzzenbud"}
Jake Arend doesn't need survey results to convince him ball tapping is a serious problem.
Classmates began hitting him in the groin when he was in sixth grade and it continued for years.
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- 5 votes
#1 - Thu Nov 26, 2009 9:32 AM EST{"commentId":10907803,"authorDomain":"par4thecourse"}
Ball tapping.. the interactions that dogs have with another.. or what happens between two people doing it doggie.....?
{"commentId":10907803,"threadId":"733245","contentId":"3549436","authorDomain":"par4thecourse"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":10907816,"authorDomain":"jamithy1"}
ouch... the only proper reaction to that is a punch square in the face and then he's down, give him the old "gas pedal treatment".... bet he never does it again.
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- 4 votes
{"commentId":10908607,"authorDomain":"par4thecourse"}
One can only hope that they do it really hard enough .. that the next generation they have no part of propagating.
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- 3 votes
{"commentId":10911485,"authorDomain":"rdonaldsnyder"}
They had better hope that, if they do it to me, it incapacitates me. Otherwise I am going to get back up and kick the everliving sh*it out of them!
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- 4 votes
{"commentId":10912692,"authorDomain":"Jake-413451"}
I've seen one guy in the Army who thought this was a fun game. Oh sure, a lot of guys had pretended to play (not actually hit anyone) or joked about it, but no one actually hit anyone (intentionally). Well one guy actually did make contact, and he did it intentionally.
Going to leave it at he no longer thinks its a fun game.
Two thumbs up.
If only they limited their targets to others who enjoyed playing.
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- 3 votes
{"commentId":10913039,"authorDomain":"olivershagnastey"}
There is a simple resolution to halt this practice. Whenever a person attempts to tap your balls, you introduce them to the new game,"head knocking! They can ponder the two games as they pick up their teeth.
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- 4 votes
{"commentId":10913113,"authorDomain":"rickace"}
Teachers and nurses are evidently unable to keep students safe anymore. How long will it be before kids start packing heat to defend against this abuse?
I'm damned glad I grew up in the 1960s, when public school wasn't a place where you had to worry about getting kicked in the nuts or gunned down by your fellow students.
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":10913763,"authorDomain":"par4thecourse"}
Teachers are "Educators" not babysitters, parents, police, judicial system..they go to college get their teachers license and degree to educate in different subjects... it is the Parents who fail their kids.. not society, not the law, not anything else... If the parents cannot teach their kids right from wrong and install some sort of conscious in their kids, to respect, responsibility.. then it is too late by the time they get to the 4-5th grade.. they are suppose to know right from wrong by the age of 7.. they do what they do, they say what they say from the parents... that Ape-like quality.. Monkey see, monkey do is for real... children are imprinted with social skills from their parents.. If the father yells out the window and swears a lot, and fights with the wife.. the child is destined to do the same...unless you educate them..that is where psychiatrist/psychologist come in.. then they say.. oh the kid has a behavioral problem take these pills for the rest of your life.. he / she has A.D.D. - yeah right.. children are the product of their environment in the home... a good swift kick from time to time never hurt anyone... if you nip it in the butt when it first happens a child will learn not to do anymore.. then it is up to the parents to instruct their kids on the "social graces"....not society.. by the time society gets to them it is then by cops and courts.
{"commentId":10913763,"threadId":"733245","contentId":"3549436","authorDomain":"par4thecourse"}
- 4 votes
{"commentId":10904562,"authorDomain":"kimmy123"}
The stupidity of some people seems to never end.
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- 8 votes
#2 - Thu Nov 26, 2009 10:07 AM EST{"commentId":10904850,"authorDomain":"kshark"}
Color me crazy what on earth ever happened to good old fashioned punching bags that are found in gyms?
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- 5 votes
#3 - Thu Nov 26, 2009 10:35 AM EST{"commentId":10904981,"authorDomain":"cuzzenbud"}
"ball tapping" would have lead to fist fighting if I was still in school. You can really mess a person up doing that type of crap.
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- 9 votes
#4 - Thu Nov 26, 2009 10:48 AM EST{"commentId":10905089,"authorDomain":"efucci"}
Just when I think it can't get worse, it does. This reminds me of the hottest new craze, "Kick the Ginger," which means running around literally kicking anyone with ginger-red hair!
I swear, if reincarnation is real, I'm coming back as a rodent!
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- 7 votes
#5 - Thu Nov 26, 2009 10:57 AM EST{"commentId":10905219,"authorDomain":"ripley8"}
Ugh WHY ?
are kids getting dumber ? or is it something in the water ? Indiana ? maybe fertilizer run off into the water table from all that corn ?
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- 2 votes
#6 - Thu Nov 26, 2009 11:08 AM EST{"commentId":10905739,"authorDomain":"kmkfornow"}
I only hope some poor victimized kid doesn't decide to retaliate with unexpected catastrophic results. A few years back in my home town, a known teen-age bully was ragging on the losing pitcher of a semi-finals baseball game. The pitcher, a couple years younger, slender, a head shorter and some 80 pounds lighter, swung at the bully with his bat and (unfortunately) killed him. During the pretrial proceedings, it came out that the younger boy had always been quiet, was an excellent scholar, and had no record of violence, whereas the deceased was a known bully. Some folks who knew the deceased were saying they were not surprised, that he brought it on himself.
Nevertheless, the judge threw the book at the youngster (maximum sentence of 12 yrs in the Youth Authority with hardened street-gang population) rather than sentencing him to rehabilitation counseling and less restrictive confinement.
I pray this "game" can be stopped before someone is killed or seriously hurt.
{"commentId":10905739,"threadId":"733245","contentId":"3549436","authorDomain":"kmkfornow"}
- 5 votes
#7 - Thu Nov 26, 2009 11:54 AM EST{"commentId":10905819,"authorDomain":"kperodin"}
Huh? Ball tapping? No kidding!... I prefer playing Chess.
{"commentId":10905819,"threadId":"733245","contentId":"3549436","authorDomain":"kperodin"}
- 3 votes
#8 - Thu Nov 26, 2009 12:02 PM EST{"commentId":10906374,"authorDomain":"Obamarunswithscissors"}
Whats the girls version called, Bury the Phalanges ? ....
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- 1 vote
#9 - Thu Nov 26, 2009 12:57 PM EST{"commentId":10906523,"authorDomain":"Randilly"}
When I was a kid, 30 years ago, there were kids that would thump each other on the nuts. A kid that comes up off the ground after that Usually has to be dragged off of the kid that started it. For some odd reason, I wasn't targeted for that kind of nonsense.
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- 3 votes
#10 - Thu Nov 26, 2009 1:11 PM EST{"commentId":10907904,"authorDomain":"dkemmerer"}
Future teabaggers?
They need a good spanking.
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- 4 votes
#11 - Thu Nov 26, 2009 3:45 PM EST{"commentId":10908871,"authorDomain":"blackcat8838"}
Miserable little f*ckers!! This pisses me off!!!! Anybody pulls that @!$%# in front of me just better look out!! Leave the kids alone! Yeah, I know it's kids doing it. I can't even believe the pain that young man endured. And yeah, I can see this sort of thing being underreported. Something needs to be done about this. The excruciating pain and impairment, Jesus Christ! Piss me off!!!!
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- 5 votes
#12 - Thu Nov 26, 2009 6:34 PM EST{"commentId":10908882,"authorDomain":"par4thecourse"}
Life's little wonders.. Wonder why a person would allow this to happen to themselves... the pain.. the pain... No it isn't Fantasy Island.. its the real thing.. I've heard about this type of stuff before but didn't think much of it other than utter stupidity.
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- 4 votes
#13 - Thu Nov 26, 2009 6:36 PM EST{"commentId":10909553,"authorDomain":"dragunovfella"}
{"commentId":10909804,"authorDomain":"phxazmom"}
OK, don't hate on me men, but this sounds like any other "game" men like to play with each other. I feel all the straight men cringing as they read this! lol .... What I mean by that is guys are physical aggressive in their friendships with other guys. Sucker punching, boxing, wrestling, farting on each other, and a zillion other "guy games" that happen all the time. Girls don't get together with their friends and out of no where run in and tackle/wrestle another friend to the ground, followed up with a sucker punch in the gut, THEN laugh about it together!
Ball-tapping, or Ball-ANYTHING, sounds like something bored teenage boys came up with for entertainment. I just cant see grown men pursuing this as entertainment. My ex told me that it only takes "that" one hit, you lose your breath, and the pain is like death. You don't let it happen again, or avoid whatever it was.
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- 7 votes
#15 - Thu Nov 26, 2009 9:25 PM EST{"commentId":10911698,"authorDomain":"lvmom"}
Did you read the part about the boys getting seriously injured? Would you feel the same way if a boy grabbed your daughter's breasts to the point of injury?
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- 3 votes
{"commentId":10911941,"authorDomain":"rdonaldsnyder"}
Or hit or kicked her between the legs to the point of permanent injury. Just because the gonads of the male are more exposed and more easily damaged, doesn't mean that the female reproductive organs can't be painfully and permanently damaged by the same type of attack. I wonder if anyone would feel the same if their daughter's pubic bone was fractured? Perhaps with the split bone damaging the ovaries or fallopian tubes leaving them sterile? Either way it's sick and wrong. There is no excuse for what these punks did.
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- 5 votes
{"commentId":10912828,"authorDomain":"rickace"}
OK, don't hate on me men, but this sounds like any other "game" men like to play with each other.
No hating. You're just ignorant. At worst it can result in the amputation of a testicle. Can you think of any parts of your female anatomy you'd like not to have amputated?
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- 5 votes
{"commentId":10919269,"authorDomain":"par4thecourse"}
I am not going to boast none.. just don't kick me towards the knees...
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- 2 votes
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{"commentId":10917804,"authorDomain":"blackcat8838"}
comment #16 is an advert.
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- 3 votes
#17 - Fri Nov 27, 2009 3:04 PM EST{"commentId":10919257,"authorDomain":"par4thecourse"}
Was
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- 3 votes
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