What is wrong with these people?

[Melo255]

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/296 ... ource=mypi

"The priority on the playing field, however, was the game, which didn't stop as Karch was carried off the sidelines to an ambulance, witnesses said."




Yea, because a dumb tradition is definitely more important than a devastating injury to someone.

My god. This is the kind of stuff that makes me hate people sometimes.

[Dr. Duran Duran]

It really is disturbing how some people's priorities are completely out of whack.

[Lofunzo]

That sucks.

On another note, is it really smart to have a minor firing off the cannon??

[StlSluggers]

Unbelievable! I thought towns like this died off decades ago.

Really disgusting. I hope the nation as a whole finds out about this and lays into them.

[RyanK]

thats horrible and disturbing. People need to start living in the 21st century

[sportsaddict]

Since his discharge from the hospital on Oct. 23, Karch has had only three visitors -- two of them Mack and Brown. And despite invitations to school friends, not a single person other than family attended his 16th birthday celebration in November, Bissell said.

That makes me sick. That's disgusting. Are you kidding me? This kid just had his leg almost completley destroyed, and if the cannon accident was even worse he could be dead. Yet all these people from this stupid town are mad at him because they might not be able to set off some dumb cannon before the game? What a bunch of losers.

I'm sure this kid had at least some friends before the accident. And not one person showed up to his birthday party? This isn't even a small town kind of thing. Any other small town like this in America, including towns that love football WAY more than this stupid little town, I guarantee you they would be supportive of him. I bet the whole town would show up to the hospital and I bet every kid in the school would go to his birthday party.

This is the worst town I've ever heard of.

[Coppermine]

Classic example of idiocy... fame before brain!

[Y`s Guy]

Can you imagine if the kid was killed? I'd bet the townfolk would still stay home.

Whack jobs.

[Coppermine]

Can you imagine if the kid was killed? I'd bet the townfolk would still stay home.

Whack jobs.

No, they would be even more pissed they couldn't set of their stupid cannon. Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

[Madison]

What's bad is if the town showed how much they cared for the kid, they probably still would have gotten what they wanted. What I mean is support the kid, go to the party, take care of any medical expenses, and I seriously doubt the kid or his family would be against having the cannon used anymore.

This whole thing could have gone so much easier and better for everyone involved.