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US high school 'held cage fights'

post #1 of 24
3/20/09 at 1:08pm
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Originally Posted by BBC
Staff at a high school in the US state of Texas had students settle their differences by fighting inside a steel cage, a local newspaper has reported.
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In the report, a teacher was quoted as saying Mr Moten told a member of staff to put two fighting students "in the cage and let 'em duke it out".
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Superintendent Michael Hinojosa told the newspaper that there were "some things that happened inside of a cage" and called the fights "unacceptable".
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post #2 of 24
3/20/09 at 1:12pm
Where on earth could this ever take place? I am shocked! Shocked I sa--, oh it's Texas. Carry on.

Wow, and here I was thinking most schools these days want the students having no physical contact whatsoever. Guess there's an outlier in every study.

Maybe it was a UFC gym class? I probably would've taken that...
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post #3 of 24
3/20/09 at 1:22pm
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Originally Posted by Phil
Oh, Texas...

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post #4 of 24
3/20/09 at 1:25pm
That's great. So we have morons, and most likely some of them are dumb enough to be creationists, who repeatedly demonstrated Darwinism by holding such events. I love it.
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post #5 of 24
3/20/09 at 1:27pm
I'll bet $20 on the fat kid...
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post #6 of 24
3/20/09 at 1:29pm
Two teens enter, one teen leaves!
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post #7 of 24
3/20/09 at 1:36pm
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Originally Posted by Martin Savage View Post
That's great. So we have morons, and most likely some of them are dumb enough to be creationists, who repeatedly demonstrated Darwinism by holding such events. I love it.
They're not demonstrating Darwinism unless they're death matches. Short of that, they're just inflicting brain damage on each other, thus creating an even dumber breed (or vegetables that further drive up health costs for the rest of us).

So I guess my only criticism is that this whole plan is half-assed - Thunderdome or nothing.
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post #8 of 24
3/20/09 at 1:37pm
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Originally Posted by Tati View Post

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Quiet, you. I have friends in Texas I like to tease.
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post #9 of 24
3/20/09 at 1:40pm
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Originally Posted by Martin Savage View Post
That's great. So we have morons, and most likely some of them are dumb enough to be creationists, who repeatedly demonstrated Darwinism by holding such events. I love it.
Yes because all Texans are raving lunatics screaming about evolution and creationism despite the conversation being about cage fighting. WTF? I understand our states reputation but can we refrain from glaring generalizations once in a blue moon?

Also I believe you guys are really just jealous your State didn't think of this first.*

*J/K**

**Sorta***

***Kinda****

****not really
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post #10 of 24
3/20/09 at 1:54pm
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They're not demonstrating Darwinism unless they're death matches. Short of that, they're just inflicting brain damage on each other, thus creating an even dumber breed (or vegetables that further drive up health costs for the rest of us).

So I guess my only criticism is that this whole plan is half-assed - Thunderdome or nothing.
Come on Dave. You perfectly know that in the long run, the whole of Texas will have a collective IQ of 36. So, going with that, we'll have most of them killing themselves while trying to eat, breath or move. So, they wipe each other out. It's just a longer process of doing it.

(I know a lot of Texans are perfectly fine and rational folks, but you guys have such a lovely reputation).
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post #11 of 24
3/20/09 at 2:21pm
I'm all for the thinning of the herd. Let 'em duke it out for all I care. More highschool girls for ME.
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post #12 of 24
3/20/09 at 2:24pm
I love Texas.
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post #13 of 24
3/20/09 at 2:29pm
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Originally Posted by Martin Savage View Post
Come on Dave. You perfectly know that in the long run, the whole of Texas will have a collective IQ of 36. So, going with that, we'll have most of them killing themselves while trying to eat, breath or move. So, they wipe each other out. It's just a longer process of doing it.

(I know a lot of Texans are perfectly fine and rational folks, but you guys have such a lovely reputation).
True, but we live in a fundamentally decent society that ostensibly cares for its weak and stupid. So that longer process is going to be pretty painful for the rest of us.
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post #14 of 24
3/21/09 at 3:00pm
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Originally Posted by DaveB View Post
True, but we live in a fundamentally decent society that ostensibly cares for its weak and stupid. So that longer process is going to be pretty painful for the rest of us.
Not in Texas, we'll just hold retard/vegetable cage fights. Obviously.
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post #15 of 24
3/21/09 at 3:09pm
Well now we know where Logan went to high school presumably.
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post #16 of 24
3/21/09 at 3:23pm
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Well now we know where Logan went to high school presumably.
Nah. He was actually Canadian. As is Martin, who got really upset a short time ago about folks making generalizations about that nation, if I recall correctly. I guess the collective IQ of 36 remark's OK, though? If you can't take jokes sir, don't make them, please.
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post #17 of 24
3/21/09 at 3:24pm
The article leaves some pretty important information out. Like, were there boxing gloves involved? Or was this one of those gluing-broken-glass-to-your-knuckles cage matches?
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post #18 of 24
3/21/09 at 3:44pm
Hahaha. My co-worker is from and went to high school in South Oak Cliff. I must ask him about this.
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post #19 of 24
3/23/09 at 3:58pm
We here at King of the Cage had nothing to do with said fight. although, maybe we should send some scouts to the lone star state.
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post #20 of 24
3/23/09 at 4:18pm
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She said her son, Cortland, told her that students stood around clapping and screaming while watching a fight he participated in.

He and another student fought for 5-10 minutes in the cage in 2004, she said.

Williamson said she took her son out of the school and moved to another district shortly after he came home with a swollen hand.
Hold up, the guy was in a CAGE fight for as much as 10 minutes and came home with a swollen hand?

That's it?!

...the fuck were they doing in there, playing BB Britches?
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post #21 of 24
3/23/09 at 5:34pm
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Hahaha. My co-worker is from and went to high school in South Oak Cliff. I must ask him about this.
I think that's something being overlooked. Oak Cliff is not a nice area. It's being gentrified, but it's still the hood. At least these kids were fighting with people watching in case someone pulled a gun. Typically the kids in Oak Cliff just get shot and left to rot.
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post #22 of 24
3/23/09 at 5:43pm
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Hold up, the guy was in a CAGE fight for as much as 10 minutes and came home with a swollen hand?

That's it?!

...the fuck were they doing in there, playing BB Britches?
And there's the crux of this whole thing, mate. These kids aren't trained athletes (let's not stereotype "cage fighting" - those guys are athletes, pure and simple), who spend hours every single day learning their craft. What's happening is they're putting the exact same half-assed, untalented playground scuffle you see anyway and putting a cage around it.

The cage wouldn't even be an issue since the fight would be a bunch of "fuck YOU!" pushing and shoving, grabbing a t-shirt and trying to throw good punches with the other arm, and other assorted poseur, ineffective "fight" posturing. Since most of them can't even fight, do you think they're smart or talented enough to actually USE the cage in any offensively minded manner?

This news is empty. Next!
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post #23 of 24
3/23/09 at 6:07pm
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Two teens enter, one teen leaves!
If this is a sexual joke :P

BTW can they place bets?
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post #24 of 24
3/24/09 at 8:57am
Actually, it's a Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome reference.
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