SISSIES: Ping-Pong-Ball Catapults Banned At Arts Festival Because They’re “Weapons”
By Robert Gehl, January 16, 2015.
Because they are “weapons,” ping-pong-ball catapults are banned at a Pennsylvania arts festival this summer.
And because we “live in especially violent times,” children won’t be allowed to toss the 3-gram harmless hollow plastic balls a few feet in the air – because it’s a “weapon.”
That’s the kind of nonsense they’re dishing out in the run up to the 2015 Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, the Centre Daily Times is reporting.
Their executive director is afraid. Afraid of plastic swords and shields and toy guns. So they’re banning all of it.
“We live in especially violent times,” [NOTE: WE DON’T] Rick Bryant said in a news release. “Banning the sale of weapons at the Children and Youth Sidewalk Sale might not be a giant step in making our society less violent, but it’s a step that we can take.”
Most of the toys sold at the youth sale are homemade. Kids make them and sell them to earn a few bucks.
These are PING-PONG-BALL catapults, people. Other than this nitwit, does anybody really think they’re a “weapon?”
Scary, huh? That’s right. But it’s all for the good of society, Rick Bryant said. Besides … he wants to prevent “injuries” even though nobody has ever been hurt by a thrown ping pong ball. Ever, ever ever.
“We thought about it for some time, and we decided to take action when we considered how crowded it gets during Arts Fest,” Bryant said. “It’s crowded enough that there are safety concerns, but there was not a precipitating event to this.
Here are some kids enjoying a ping pong ball catapult. I can see the bloodthirsty violent look in their eyes.
Amazingly, Mike Reinert, the father of Nate, who sells the small catapults, isn’t totally outraged, just irritated.
“I don’t know that this action is really solving any kind of problem, because a lot of these boys making these things may grow up to be in the military,” he said. “Just as what’s happening in schools, you’re telling these young people it’s not OK to fight, battle and compete. Where are we leaving our boys? As a guy, there are just natural instincts we’ve had for thousands of years, and now we’re supposed to say it’s not OK? I know they’re doing the best they can, but it’s a Catch-22.”
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