Perhaps the best way - or only hope, really - to get kids to tackle more safely is to penalize unsafe tackling all the way up to the high school level and maybe beyond. As it is, the rules only protect the ball carrier, not the tackler.

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If it where American police 3 kids would have been tased, pepper spray would have temporarily blinded another 5 and a total of 12 kids arrested for "disturbing the peace"

Oh God, how I don't miss those days.

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Being dead never stopped John Cage from performing 4'33".

It is!

I like that you're having to explain this repeatedly. It's not that it's a hard narrative to grasp in concept, it's just that this idiot is completely unbelievable.

everybody is pretty much a mutant. That's kind of how evolution works.

There needs to be a special place in hell for assholes who do this. Excuse me, I have to go hug my dog-in-kitty-form right now.

He says the dog jumped out of his car and took off at a gas station. Hard to believe after watching the dog chase after him so desperately that he would then just randomly run away.

Do not advertise your pets on CL. Many animals picked on CL end up being used as bait animals for fighting dogs. Make sure you analyze the prospective owners before you hand over the leash.

Sohn has been cited for animal cruelty and negled and is scheduled to appear in court on July 2, according to Denver Animal Control.

Oh man brother, I have SO been there. Laid off twice from two cushy and awesome jobs (three of last 5 years on the breadline) leading to depression, financial insolvency, drugs, and hermiting in my underwear - peeking through the curtains like a bearded mole-person every time a car door closes outside.

I honestly don't know how I feel about this as a game developer. Like, I like to think that my games help people, and I guess in this sense it does, but at the same time it weirds me out. I've worked on a lot of Triple A FPS's and other kinds of shooters and when I think of playing games I've worked on I just think of…

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