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airehead
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 Posted: 12/17/03 - 17:04 Post subject: Calvin's comic comes to life...
| Quote: | Half-Ton Snowball Traps, Injures Boy
POSTED: 1:36 PM EST December 17, 2003
NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario -- An 11-year-old Canadian boy is recovering in a hospital after he was trapped underneath a half-ton snowball.
Officials in Niagara Falls, Ontario, say the boy and his classmates at a Catholic elementary school were rolling the 5-foot-high snowball around the playground when he slipped.
The snowball rolled onto him, cutting off his oxygen. Officials say the school principal revived the boy by performing CPR.
The boy is expected to make a full recovery. Police are calling it "a freak accident."
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TimRuns
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Posted: 12/17/03 - 17:12 Post subject:
Sorry, but I do find that kinda hilarious  
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airehead
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Posted: 12/17/03 - 17:17 Post subject:
| TimRuns wrote: | | Sorry, but I do find that kinda hilarious |
 I found it fubby, too.
I bet he was up to no good with it, too. Just like Shelf and Achey...er, I mean Calvin and Susie.
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jrjo
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Posted: 12/18/03 - 15:23 Post subject:
I've caught a foot or two under a giant snowball in my day...owza.
Next thing ya know, snowball rolling will be banned like dodgeball in some schools 
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shelflifers
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Posted: 12/18/03 - 15:25 Post subject:
So, he was a riff raff member that recently saw that Calvin?
Anyone see blue lately?
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Posted: 12/18/03 - 15:25 Post subject:
Would CPR in this case stand for "Canajun Pulmonary Resuscitation"?
Last edited by gretriever on 12/18/03 - 15:28; edited 2 times in total
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elkid
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Posted: 12/18/03 - 15:26 Post subject:
That's hysterical! But I have two questions.
1) why does aire keep putting up tragic events? 
2) aren't all accidents "freak" accidents?
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Posted: 12/18/03 - 15:26 Post subject:
| TimRuns wrote: | | Sorry, but I do find that kinda hilarious |
So do i.
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coachmarkos
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Posted: 12/18/03 - 15:29 Post subject:
Holy Crappoly!
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Posted: 12/18/03 - 15:30 Post subject:
| jrjo wrote: | I've caught a foot or two under a giant snowball in my day...owza.
Next thing ya know, snowball rolling will be banned like dodgeball in some schools |
No sir! When they outlaw snowballs only outlaws will have snowballs.
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coachmarkos
my boys could swim
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Posted: 12/18/03 - 15:32 Post subject:
| gretriever wrote: | | jrjo wrote: | I've caught a foot or two under a giant snowball in my day...owza.
Next thing ya know, snowball rolling will be banned like dodgeball in some schools |
No sir! When they outlaw snowballs only outlaws will have snowballs. |
just don't get caught packing a snowball around here. 
Rolling them up is fine, but packing, and holding...you asking for trouble.
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Posted: 12/18/03 - 18:11 Post subject:
| coachmarkos wrote: |
Holy Crappoly! |
That's what I say!
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Posted: 12/18/03 - 18:22 Post subject:
I think it's very sad. I cannot imagine that poor boy and his family (I think Libby as she is 11--I'd be a wreck). This very easily could have been much more tragic. Thank goodness the principal was handy & knew CPR.
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airehead
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Posted: 12/18/03 - 19:22 Post subject:
| elkid wrote: | That's hysterical! But I have two questions.
1) why does aire keep putting up tragic events?
2) aren't all accidents "freak" accidents? |
1) Because these things fascinate me--and they remind me that nothing in life can or should be taken for granted. It also helps to remind me that I do not want to die in a newsworthy way.
2) I think freak accidents are more when no human contributed to the event. (My opinion, anyway) Like the tree falling on the lady last week. Now that was freaky! Like the 13 cows killed by one lightning strike in the UK. Now that's freaky. A drunk driver plowing into an innocent victim--that's a malicious crime. Someone speeding to beat a red light and hitting someone else---that's dangerous selfishness.
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