"Sack Tapping"....really??

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,593680,00.html

A Minnesota teenager had to have his testicle amputated after being punched in the groin by a classmate, KARE11.com reported Friday.

David Gibbons, 14, was changing classes in his Crosby, Minn. high school when he was attacked by another student playing a game called “sack tapping.”

David’s mother, Christy Gibbons, said it wasn’t until hours later that they realized something was wrong.

"One o'clock in the morning he woke me up and told me he was in excruciating pain," she said.

David was taken to St. Joseph's Hospital in Brainerd, Minn. where surgeons removed his right testicle.

And David is not the only student who has suffered the consequences of the “sack tapping” game.

"It's just gotten way out of control," said Dr. Scott Wheeler, a urologist in Brainerd, Minn. who says he performs three to four surgeries a year on boys with ruptured testicles and other complications as a result of “sack tapping.”

"All parents, you need to have this talk with your kids not to do it. It's lost its humor. It's not a game anymore. People get hurt," he added.

I'll never understand why anyone thinks that getting hit "down there" is funny.
I did it once, accidentally, to my brother. I only grazed him and it took him a while to recover. I felt really bad seeing how much discomfort he was in.

People really just don't get the concept of empathy anymore, do they? :(

I'll never understand why anyone thinks that getting hit "down there" is funny.


Tell that to the producers of America's Funniest Home Videos.

Tell that to the producers of America's Funniest Home Videos.

That is why I don't watch it anymore....

Jeepers, in my day (back in junior high school), it was "funny" to knock somebody's books out of out their hands while passing in the hallways inbetween classes...

(Ashamed to say I participated in that...after being a 'victim' once)

That is why I don't watch it anymore....

It's also why Bob Saget quit.

That's saying something when a guy known for being filthy leaves because something is too low-brow for him.


My husband is 31 and he knew what this was - even by that term. I don't know what's wrong with boys (including my husband) - but I'm still sufficiently afraid of girls that I'm glad I had boys.

That's saying something when a guy known for being filthy leaves because something is too low-brow for him.


His quote at the time was "I've just run out of different ways to introduce clips of guys getting hit in the groin."

.... out of all the dumb things you can do....

:rolleyes:

.... out of all the dumb things you can do....

:rolleyes:

I think it's just plain mean.

Seriously wtf? Wouldn't most normal guys at 14 not want to injure themselves in that region in the hopes of having sex some day soon?