High School Cancels Season After Alleged Sexual Assaults - by Teammates

[Ksyrup]

NEW YORK -- A Long Island school board has unanimously voted to end a high school football team's season amid allegations that some players were sexually assaulted by older teammates at a training camp in Pennsylvania last month.

The Bellmore-Merrick school board decided at a Wednesday night closed-door meeting to cancel all of the Mepham High School football team's games. The decision affects both the varsity and junior varsity squads. Their first game was to have been Saturday against H. Frank Carey High School in Franklin Square.

Thomas Caramore, the district's superintendent, was not immediately available for comment Thursday morning, but a receptionist in his office said, "The season is canceled."

Authorities are investigating accusations that players were sexually abused during a hazing rite while the team was at Camp Wayne for Girls in Preston Park, Pa.

Newsday reported that three varsity players allegedly sodomized three junior varsity players with a broomstick, pine cones and golf balls while other players watched. One of the students was injured so badly that he required surgery, the newspaper said.

The board found that "a significant majority" of the team's players violated the district's code of conduct "which requires that all students are expected to promptly report criminal, serious, or dangerous violations to school officials," according to a statement read by Charles Reinhardt, the president of the school board.

No arrests have been made, and prosecutors and school officials have not commented on the specifics of the allegations.

[KevinNU7]

Well there goes the idea of and early lunch

[KevinNU7]

Dola,

There's a lot of material in that article for The Afoci to work with

[Draft Dodger]

Originally posted by KevinNU7
Well there goes the idea of and early lunch

there goes the idea of my son going to school.
ever.

[Ksyrup]

...and Marmel apparently has already "worked with" the material in that article.

[Critch]

***Schoolboy humor pun warning***

They used to be tight ends, but now they're wide receivers.

[The Afoci]

Originally posted by KevinNU7
Dola,

There's a lot of material in that article for The Afoci to work with

I got nothing.

[Glengoyne]

Guys did a lot of crazy stuff while I was playing football, but we drew the line well short of sodomy. Now I would pee on you in the shower, but that was about the extent of it.

[KevinNU7]

Originally posted by The Afoci
I got nothing. Puppy. Does that help?

[vex]

Pinecones? Ouch.

[Marmel]

Originally posted by Glengoyne
Now I would pee on you in the shower


Can you make it to my house by 3pm?

[JeeberD]

Originally posted by KevinNU7
Dola,

There's a lot of material in that article for The Afoci to jerk off with

:eek:

Edit: Wait a second, that doesn't shock me at all...

[The Afoci]

Originally posted by Marmel
Can you make it to my house by 3pm?

Aren't you going to make it to the seminar this week? How to be the male in a male/shemale relationship. Finally, we get to be in back!

[Easy Mac]

Originally posted by JeeberD
:(
Edit: Wait a second, he doesn't jerk me off at all...

[Ksyrup]

Pinecones would not be pleasant. Come to think of it, neither would golf balls or broomsticks. Good thing they didn't try shoulder pads.

This reminds me of the Jerky Boys' skit where the guy calls up a sporting goods store and asks whether they sell tennis ball machines, and goes on to explain that he and a friend were shooting potatoes up each other's asses and it accidentally shot one into his friend's eye when he turned around at the wrong time.

Somehow, that was a lot funnier than this sounds.

[The Afoci]

Originally posted by KevinNU7
Puppy.

Peanut Butter.

My therapist and I go over things like this all the time. I love word association.

[KevinNU7]

Originally posted by The Afoci
My therapist and I go over things like this all the time. I love word association. Traffic Cone

[Easy Mac]

midgets

[The Afoci]

Originally posted by KevinNU7
Traffic Cone

Boob.

[The Afoci]

Originally posted by Easy Mac
midgets

Bowling.

[cthomer5000]

I'm being dead serious:

I feel horrible for the kids who took various objects up the ass and now won't even get to play football this year.

I think this was a horrible decision.

[TLK]

Why not just suspend those who participated in it? That way the ones who took the punishment will actually get to play more. A reward for being wronged.

[Ksyrup]

I get the feeling this was more of a systemic problem than simply isolated to the players themselves. Not that the coaches got involved in the festivities, but that the coaches didn't properly supervise the "training camp" and could, themselves, be headed toward suspension or firing. That would leave them without a coaching staff, had they decided to just suspend the players involved and go forward the season.

[The Afoci]

Last I heard, pinecones in the ass severely hurt the ability to play football. The chess club had similiar incidents as well. That was dubbed, stinky rook, but resulted in no suspentions or forfeits.

[Ksyrup]

Originally posted by The Afoci
Last I heard, pinecones in the ass severely hurt the ability to play football.

That may be true, but now they're oh so much better at throwing a "crackedass block."

[JonInMiddleGA]

Why not just suspend those who participated in it?


If I'm reading the article correctly, it sounds like "participation" is being defined as "knowing about it but not reporting it" (as I think it should be in this case) and that constituted pretty much everybody who wasn't a victim.

In other words, there may not have been enough players not somehow involved (by act of commission or omission) to have a team left to play with.

[Buzzbee]

I feel sorry for the victims. With the season cancelled they're takin' it up the ass twice.

[Ben E Lou]

PINE CONES?????


{shudder}

[Hyde]

Shockey had it wrong. Its the football players from NY that are the homos.

[Franklinnoble]

Let's start a word association thread... that was kinda fun.

[illinifan999]

Oh...my.....

Broomsticks? Golf Balls? GOLF BALLS?! Words cannot express what is going through my mind right now. This is almost up there when my friend's mom had to pull a hamster out of a guy's ass.

[PineTar]

** ponders a change in FOFC IDs **

Legal Note: I have not stepped foot in the states of New York or Pennsylvania in the past six years.

[Glengoyne]

Originally posted by PineTar
** ponders a change in FOFC IDs **

Legal Note: I have not stepped foot in the states of New York or Pennsylvania in the past six years.

LoL!

Don't touch that Broom. That looks like pine tar on the handle!

[tucker342]

wow, a pine cone!?!?!?!?!?! ouch, that would hurt.....

[The Afoci]

Originally posted by Franklinnoble
Let's start a word association thread... that was kinda fun.

I didn't last long though. The masses didn't like it as much as we did.

[Franklinnoble]

Originally posted by The Afoci
I didn't last long though. The masses didn't like it as much as we did.

Stupid masses...

[Leonidas]

Seems to me this level of hazing is pretty recent. When I played sports in the early-mid 80's we had hazing, but nothing remotely like this. Our college track team made freshmen run around the hotel parking lot naked and I remember watching wrestlers in high school do the blindfold situp routine where you hold a towel over a guys eyes then have him do a situp into someone's ass, but I don't think it ever would have occurred to anyone to insert something up a guy's butt. And if it had, I'm sure they would never have suggested it for extreme fear of being branded a homo.

[Ben E Lou]

I say again....

PINE CONES?????


{shudder}

[The Afoci]

Originally posted by SkyDog

PINE CONES


Ass Love!

Franklin, the game is back baby!

[Ben E Lou]

PINE CONES?????





{shudder}

[SirFozzie]

I move we ban SkyDog for resurrecting old threads...

And making us all shudder.

Pine Cones, INDEED!

[Ksyrup]

I hesitate to ask what brought this to your mind.

[Ben E Lou]

I hesitate to ask what brought this to your mind.Bunny guano. Seriously. Don't ask me how my mind works, but that's the truth.

[SirFozzie]

I wonder if one if the kids mentioned above was nicknamed Bunny. ;)

[SackAttack]

SkyDog don't understand the kinds of problems and pressures 54 million pinecones come wit'!

[SirFozzie]

(shudders)

Considering the story... did you HAVE to link 54 million pinecones, problems, and, er... pressures? :D

[SackAttack]

That was the general idea. :D

[SirFozzie]

(pulls out an Interdimensional Hammer and chases SackAttack around the room)

I KEEL YOU NOW!

[SackAttack]

I know, I know.

I'm going to hell.

[JonInMiddleGA]

I can't believe, after this thread was resurrected, nobody else found this first.

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/news/wabc_080304_mepham.html
Bellmore-WABC, August 3, 2004) — Four high school football coaches, who were fired as part of a sexual hazing scandal, are now suing three of the attackers and their parents. The coaches claim the young football players ruined their lives and their careers.

Also this week,
http://www.newsday.com/sports/highschool/ny-limeph0822,0,5145230.story?coll=ny-hsports-headlines

August 21, 2004, 7:55 PM EDT

All they ever wanted to do was play ball. A year ago, they boarded a bus for a training camp in Pennsylvania, a trip that turned into a week of hazing and sexual assaults by older teammates.

Monday, when the Mepham High School football team takes the field for the first time since the season was canceled last September, the three boys brutally hazed at camp plan to be there.

Still angry, often ambivalent and forever altered. But finally, playing football. "I think he needs to do it," said the father of one of the boys, who is now 14. "It's what he wanted to do last year and he sort of got it taken away from him."

While four players admitted roles in the assaults, authorities say many others stood by and did nothing -- some fearful of being targeted themselves, but some cheering the attackers on.

The four players were tried as juveniles and sentenced for participating in the sodomy of the three victims with broomsticks, pine cones and golf balls during a five-day camp in Preston Park, Pa., last August.

The two youngest players involved in the attacks are serving probation on Long Island. The oldest, a senior team captain last year who is now 18, spent about seven months in a Pennsylvania wilderness boot camp and was released a few weeks ago.

Another player, a 16-year-old junior, has been at a treatment center in Pennsylvania undergoing counseling since January and could be released next month. None of the attackers will be returning to Bellmore-Merrick high school.


Also, a new hazing story, this time it's high school hockey. Paddlings with hockey sticks with screws embedded
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/local/9477733.htm?1c

[Godzilla Blitz]

When I was a sophomore in high school, one of the captains tried to "initiate" me onto the varsity by shoving a big stick dipped in Atomic Balm up my butt. Fortunately, the two other guys that he recruited to help him weren't anywhere as evil. They made only a halfhearted attempt to hold me, and I got away. That still ranks up there with one of the scariest moments of my life, though.

The guy is now a successful politician.

[KWhit]

When I was a sophomore in high school, one of the captains tried to "initiate" me onto the varsity by shoving a big stick dipped in Atomic Balm up my butt. Fortunately, the two other guys that he recruited to help him weren't anywhere as evil. They made only a halfhearted attempt to hold me, and I got away. That still ranks up there with one of the scariest moments of my life, though.

The guy is now a successful politician.
W?

[TargetPractice6]

W?No, he was a cheerleader.

[JeffNights]

What is this youth coming to?

This kinda bullshit happens when you dont have solid leadership.

When i was a senior in H.S., i was one of the three captains on our football team. Some other upper classmen thought it'd be a great idea to stuff any freshman player they could get into a locker then pee in it(the locker rooms were connected). After sucessfully stuffing two kids in a locker, this idiotic group was about to make good on thier initiation and thouroguhly embarras these youngsters, I walked over and put a stop to such nonsense immmeadiatly.

the point is, after seeing thier captain raging over this ridiculous stunt, the rest of the teamates who were there turned on them too.

Such a sad time is now.

[Godzilla Blitz]

No, he was a cheerleader.
Heh.

Not sure of the "W?" reference, but I suppose that story would have been clearer with...

"When I was a playing football as a high school sophomore, I made the varsity. One of the captains tried..."

[Samdari]

Don't ask me how my mind works

I am becoming less convinced that it does.

[Ben E Lou]

PINE FREAKING CONES?????





{shudder}

[Suicane75]

Gives new meaning to the phrase "smells like roses".

[Ben E Lou]

http://www.cabotchristmastrees.com/IMAGES/Pine_Cones.jpg
[Charlie Brown Voice]AUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH[/Charlie Brown Voice]

[WSUCougar]

http://www.cabotchristmastrees.com/IMAGES/Pine_Cones.jpg

[robbgmaier]

this thread needs some pinecones stuffed into it's patriotic undies

[robbgmaier]

pine cones?

[vex]

Pine cones.

[Cringer]

pyne kones

[JonInMiddleGA]

From pine cones ... to pool cues

3 Tennessee high school officials to answer charges they failed to report abuse (http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/14615417/3-tennessee-high-school-officials-answer-charges-failed-report-abuse)

[Ben E Lou]

Bump. Moved per request, without comment.

[stevew]

Pine cones.

[mckerney]

^

[CU Tiger]

Pine Cones, Pool Cues and Golf Balls, OH MY!!!

What happened to good old fashioned towel beatings and the occasional icy hot in the jock, and the more rare tossing the naked player out of the lockeroom forms of hazing.

[lighthousekeeper]

some of those high schoolers may now 30 years old.

:/