in response to thugs using skateboards as weapons...I give you baseball bat stories..

[skategeezer]

I have to admit I am very angry about the newlyweds who were attacked by a pack of skaters. But are they skaters who are thugs or thugs who skate?

Just googled "baseball bat." Do these stories reflect badly on baseball?
Let the can of worms be opened...


Texas teens get probation in baseball-bat deer deaths

Associated Press


IRAAN — Two teens accused of beating two deer to death with baseball bats have received five months deferred adjudication probation.
Call Cade pleaded no contest and Zac Owen pleaded guilty to hunting with illegal means and methods, a class C misdemeanor, the Odessa American reported in today's editions. Both are 17.
They were ordered to pay a $500 court fee. If they stay out of trouble for five months, the cases against them will be dismissed.
They also were found guilty of hunting in closed season and paid a $300 fine and $61 in court costs. They must receive counseling.
The names and punishment of two others involved in the incident were withheld because they are minors.
Three of the teens are juniors at Iraan High School, and one is a sophomore.
An investigation into the deaths began after the deer were found dead on the baseball field on Dec. 7.
Iraan, a community of about 1,100, is about 115 miles southwest of San Angelo, just west of the Crockett County line.

Pair beaten with baseball bats in Colindale
By Nicky Evans
Two men suffered serious injuries including a fractured skull after being beaten with baseball bats and wheel braces on a Colindale estate.
Police are appealing for witnesses following the assault which happened in Grahame Park on Sunday afternoon after a row broke out between four men.
Two of the men produced baseball bats and wheel braces and hit the other two repeatedly over the head before fleeing the scene.
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The victims, aged 19 and 20, were both taken to hospital with injuries. One is still receiving treatment for a fractured skull and cheekbone.
Police describe the suspects as white and in their mid-20s. One has blonde hair and was wearing a dark coloured tracksuit. The other wore a light coloured top and dark trousers.
Anyone with information should call DC Matt Smith on 0208 733 4595 or call Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 quoting reference number 2430797/07.


Attacker threatened women with baseball bats in bedroom
By Court reporter


A WINSFORD man hid in the dark before jumping off a wardrobe and threatening two women with a baseball bat.
Colin Reid circled his partner Samantha Benson and her sister Rebecca Mellor and said: "You think you are clever. I am going to kill you both."
As the women fled he threw the bat, hitting Ms Mellor on her arm.
Reid, of Chiltern Way, who is 20 today, admitted the assault and attacking Ms Benson on Christmas Day when he cut her with a sweet tin lid when he appeared at Vale Royal Magistrates' Court in Northwich on Thursday. On that occasion he was given bail by under conditions not to approach Ms Benson but breached it less than two days later.
Karen Morgan-Read, prosecuting, said on December 8 at 11.30pm Ms Benson had asked her to accompany her the house she shared with Reid to collect some things as she was leaving him.
All the lights were off and the sisters went upstairs to the bedroom.
Mrs Morgan-Read said: "When they got to the bedroom they saw a piece of paper on the bed which said: You are a slag'. They heard a noise from behind. The defendant jumped off the wardrobe with a baseball bat.
"He was circling the girls saying: You think you are so clever. I'm going to kill you both'."
Mrs Morgan-Read said as the women fled he screamed: It's my house' and threw the bat.
The defendant and Ms Benson eventually made up but on Christmas Day an argument broke out.
He threw a sweet tin lid, which hit her mouth causing it to bleed and knocked over a Christmas tree. Police bailed him under the condition he didn't approach her but at 4am on December 27 he breached it.
Magistrates gave him a curfew from 7pm to 7am until his next appearance on January 21, ordered him to reside in Chiltern Way and not approach either of the witnesses.
The court clerk warned him that although it was his birthday if he went out after 7pm it would be breaching that bail.



Written by Raymond Rivera
Suspect Arrested for Attacking Man with Baseball Bat
(Photo: MGN)



01/04/2008 3:30 PM ET
SALISBURY, Md. - Police arrested a suspect for allegedly attacking a man with a baseball bat on Tuesday in Salisbury.
Charles Henry Cornish, 41, of Salisbury was charged with first- and second-degree assault, reckless endangerment, disorderly conduct and malicious destruction of property less than $500.
Salisbury police say officers responded to the 500 block of East Lincoln Avenue for a report of a fight involving several subjects with baseball bats.
Investigators say upon arrival, officers observed a male subject waving a metal bat in an aggressive manner towards another male subject. Officers say they ordered all subjects to the ground and detained them until additional unit arrived.
Cornish was released to Central Booking.

[Ogre]

Apples and oranges

[nicthekid220]

pineapple and guava

[ceckian]

chocolate and urine.

but really. the whole skateboards-being-banned-because-of-them-being-used-as-weapons thing is stupid.

[esteban]

the fallacy here is that a person with a skateboard is much more likely to be a skater than a person holding a baseball bat is to be a baseball player.

regardless, i think the point is clear enough.

[bucksaw87]

ban baseball!
that'll show them punks!

[Wells]

I say we ban everything. That way nothing can be used as a weapon.

[sk8norcal]

Boy Accused Of Using Bat To Beat Toddler - News Story - WNBC | New York

LAUDERHILL, Fla. -- A 12-year-old Florida boy is accused of beating a toddler to death with a baseball bat because she was crying while he was trying to watch TV.