At least the community came together in this crisis to make the cripple feel like an outsider for daring to have a 20 year old cannon built by fucking high school students blow up. Fucking morons.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
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...including its beloved cannon, which students in the school's metal shop built after a previous cannon gave out in the mid-1980s.
Yes, obviously a cannon built by high school rednecks is perfectly safe.
I hope they lose the cannon, because if they are not willing to buy a real one, they do not deserve it.
It speaks of a community so absorbed in their asinine Olde Timey traditions that they've lost all perspective of reality. Tribalism at it's worst. Loathing is not a strong enough word for my perception of them.
Note that they don't apologize for continuing the football game after the kid's leg got mashed, nor do they say that they'll be discontinuing the tradition. In fact, there's no real refutation of the worst things of the original article. They're just trying--rather desperately--to save face.
Also, the comments on that page are fucking hilarious. I love anonymous flamewars.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
