From Robb Allen, via Say Uncle:
It turns put that hunting is less dangerous than just about any other sport you can think of. I didn’t see tiddly-winks on there, would that count as a sport?
And from comments at Unc’s place:
“Hemingway famously claimed that if it was safe, it wasn’t a sport, but mere athletics.”
Heh.
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March 26, 2009 at 1:48 am |
Curtis, you raging speciesist. Just because hunting isn’t dangerous to humans doesn’t mean no one gets hurt. What about Bambi? Porky Pig? All those beers killed in the cabin or ’round the campfire?
On a serious note, I noticed skiing wasn’t on there. When I was in high school I saw some stats that showed it had the highest injury rate but haven’t seen anything since then.
March 26, 2009 at 9:27 am |
I have logged many hunting and fishing trips. Other than getting a hook in a finger I have never been hurt.
Riding my bike throughout my life, I have been hit by cars 3 fucking times. Had my ribs broken, had my helmet broke (saving my grape in the process) 3 or 4 times and had my glasses save my eyesight once.
March 26, 2009 at 6:25 pm |
Didn’t George Carlin do a routine based on the idea that it’s only a sport if someone plays defense, otherwise it’s just an activity? “The object in golf is to put a little ball into a hole in the ground. WHO’S STOPPING YOU?! Now bowling — if bowling had a goalie, it’d be a heck of a sport!”
Bambi, presumably, is playing defense against the deer hunter, so hunting is a sport.
March 26, 2009 at 9:53 pm |
Who will defend the beer?
March 27, 2009 at 7:19 am |
Bob: That is why I like wild boar hunting – the pig can always go on offense if he wants…
Nunya: I would say me, but that is like putting the fox in charge of defending the henhouse.