What is the motivation...........

[poddster]

.........that compels people to attend major league football games at a stadium in their thousands?

[tezza2844]

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@this-one-time-at-bandcamp wrote:

Tiger's injuries were the result of his ex-wife flaying him with his favorite mashie.........

However, as Joanie mentioned.......... NASCAR.  Their  fans are the most likely to attend a race in anticipation of a (many) fiery crash.........but then they're mostly Southerners, so watching cars continuously going round in a circle might appeal to them, as would grass growing and paint drying.

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[j*oono]

A 17-YEAR-old boy has been charged with manslaughter over the shooting death of a 36-year-old man on a hunting trip in WA’s Wheatbelt last week.

Major Crime Squad detectives on Tuesday confirmed the teenager had been charged over the shooting death of Ashley John Major at Chandler near Merredin on Friday.

The teen has been released on bail to appear in the Merredin Children’s Court next month.

Mr Major was accidentally shot and killed on a farm on the Koorda-Bullfinch Road, about 300km east of Perth, just before 9pm on Friday.

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/teenager-charged-with-manslaughter-over-wheatbelt-...

[poddster]

At age 17 he would not have had a license only a permit at best.

For him to have been charged he probably didn't have a permit.

You may say that I am callous and have no compassion for the kid, but I have compassion for the dead person who was shot by an unlicensed idiot.

[siggie-reported-by-alarmists]

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@poddster wrote:

Siggie, you best alert the Olympic Committee that they have included a sport in the Olympic Games that  is not a "real" sport.

I wonder if they will mow reclaim all the medals that Australia has won for that "not real" sport?

By the way the fact remains that even though most consider firearms dangerous, injuries and death in the dangerous SPORT of target shooting are by far less than in the safe sport of football.

I freely admit that firearms that are loaded and left unattended by idiot people can cause injury and death.

Leaving a firearm loaded and unattended is against the law, any person who does that has broken the law and is by definition a criminal.

Cars are built to travel yet they still cause injury and death far in excess of firearms.

By the way if you think that target shooting does not require a degree of physical fitness, you have never shot a match and you know noting about it.

If you doubt my statement do some research 🙂

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Why is it in the Olympics?....lol...... I'm sure a lot of people would love to know why.

A real sport includes physical exertion. A gold medal for shooting a target is hardly in the same league as gold in the 100m sprint.

Or gold in the 100m freestyle......the list goes on.  Pulling a trigger..... gee wiz......consider what real athletes do.

Stop deluding yourself.

[myoclon1cjerk]

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[myoclon1cjerk]

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@lloydslights wrote:

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@myoclon1cjerk wrote:
I got a shoulder cramp once,employing the Alekhine Defence. 🙂

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I broke a nail on the timer.

DEB

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[poddster]

You obviously did not read this post  so you are sadly mistaken about the physical fitness of that is required to be a successful target shooter.

"Most matches use 60 rounds with 5 sighting shots so that is a total of 65, rounds. the range is either 25 or 50 meters.

A target pistol, on average weighs 2 Kg loaded. it is held at arms length unsupported until the sights are aligned and the shot breaks, that on an average is around 30 seconds.

After each 5 shot you go to the target and score and patch the holes the distance to the target and back is either 100 meters or 50 meters so in the course of a match the shooter walks either 1.3Km or 0.65Km

Over the course of the match a shooter holds at arms length 2 Kg for a period 32.5 minutes that equates to 75Kg held at arms length."

More energy expended than the 100 yard sprint 🙂

[j*oono]

OK Poddster.  So it wasn't the gun that killed the man.  It was the lack of a licence (if that is the case).

[siggie-reported-by-alarmists]

The ability to lift your arm..... does not make an athlete.

Now consider what fitness level is required to run a marathon...... and the 100m sprint....

Your gun is the weight of a medium sized  kitten......lol.  

I don't think you have ever done a real sport..... or any real training.

[poddster]

the man's death was caused by a 17 year person that person was in control of a device that he was not licenced to be in  possession of.

If the kid was driving a car unlicensed and killed someone it would be same situation.