Knocking cup from young child's mouth with Nanchaku

[DLopez]

Whew!!

 

I thought you knew they were no longer dazzling crowds around the world with their high flying, highly skilled feats of aerial ballet!

 

Which brings up a point. Just because you might not be highly skilled at something, do you think everyone that has some sort of act like that is equally unskilled and is just a blink away from disaster?

 

The child endangerment laws are designed to protect kids from negligence and deliberate harm, and to assume that someone who performs an act like that is either negligent or has deliberate intentions on harming a child simply because their act "shocks" you is just plain ignorant.

 

Heh. One could very easily argue that if you put a child in a car (even with a fancy-shmancy car seat) that you are being negligent and deliberately placing the child in harms way, because you have no control over other drivers on the road, and have little ability to prevent an accident from happening that could injure the child.

 

Funny, squiggly little line there, eh?

 

As you can see, I don't sway with the PC mob mentality.

[47MartialMan]

Hmmn, but suspending a child from a high wire or used in a "cup" demo is quite the norm.

 

So do what one will with a child if it is under skill and controlled?

 

Heck, I am not "shocked" by it.

 

PC, I am far from that.

[DLopez]

Hmmn, but suspending a child from a high wire or used in a "cup" demo is quite the norm.

 

No, it isn't the norm. But driving kids around all day in a car is the norm.

 

I'm glad you decided to point this out because if we are going to start a crusade against putting kids in harms way, what a better place to start than to prevent irresponsible parents, who are arguably relatively unskilled at driving, from transporting their children in these deadly rolling contraptions called automobiles. The statistics will clearly show that automobiles are a larger danger to children than anything else.

 

Now, if you have no problem with the above scenario, then why is it so outrageous that someone, who probably possess much more skill at what he does than the average driver on the road posseses, and is performing under much more controlled conditions than there is out on the road, is including a child in his act?

 

Let the crusading begin!

[47MartialMan]

I have no "problem" with it.

 

And stattistic are high with automobiles pending the area/country.

 

Of course if there is a high percentage of people driving, then that danger is going to reflect.

 

Well, heck, my brother is a skill archer, might as well put a apple on his son's head?

[DLopez]

Well, heck, my brother is a skill archer, might as well put a apple on his son's head?

 

Heh. The thing is, evidently, you really don't believe your brother is skilled enough if you have doubts, now do you?

 

What would your brother say?

 

There may very well be someone skilled enough to do it, and just because it's a bad idea for you or your brother to try it, doesn't mean it's so for everyone else.

 

That's all.

[Drunken Monkey]

hmm, looks like most people here conveniently ignored tommarker's post....

 

and um,

 

i remember a magician/stage performer who used to shoot an apple that was sat on his wife's head using a cross bow,

 

whilst he was blind-folded and facing the opposite direction.

[47MartialMan]

hmm, looks like most people here conveniently ignored tommarker's post....

 

and um,

 

i remember a magician/stage performer who used to shoot an apple that was sat on his wife's head using a cross bow,

 

whilst he was blind-folded and facing the opposite direction.

 

yeah, that was his wife. She had faith as well as love for him.

[longarm25]

hmm, looks like most people here conveniently ignored tommarker's post....

 

and um,

 

i remember a magician/stage performer who used to shoot an apple that was sat on his wife's head using a cross bow,

 

whilst he was blind-folded and facing the opposite direction.

 

yeah, that was his wife. She had faith as well as love for him.

not to mention she was able to make the decision to put herself in harms way.

[thaiboxerken]

i remember a magician/stage performer who used to shoot an apple that was sat on his wife's head using a cross bow,

 

whilst he was blind-folded and facing the opposite direction.

 

It is a trick, there was no way that he could miss the shot so his wife was never in danger. Didn't you watch "Secrets of Magic"?

[47MartialMan]

Secrets of Magic?

 

Or the "Masked Magician'?