12.20.2006

Another reason football is bad for you.

Boy hurt by cannon blast feels twice wounded: "According to Karch's medical records, security guards notified police after Karch received disturbing phone calls and visits from parents and students, some of whom threatened to 'break his other leg' or worse, if he didn't keep quiet about the accident. Hospital staff had to move him to a secure room where they monitored visitors. "

How freakin' messed up is THAT?? Oh, it gets better:

"Since his discharge from the hospital on Oct. 23, Karch has had only three visitors -- two of them Mack and Brown. And despite invitations to school friends, not a single person other than family attended his 16th birthday celebration in November, Bissell said."

Those small football towns frighten me. Snohomish has a website for their high school football team and on the right side of the home page is a poll, which asks the question, "How many games will you attend in 2006?" Well, I found this story through Fark, and as you can imagine, those Farkers did a number on the poll results: As of the time of this post, there were 91,478 votes for "None". And only 296 for "all". Ha!

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