http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/18/no.tag.ap/index.html
(It's kinda old (10-18-06), but who cares. :U)
QuoteATTLEBORO, Massachusetts (AP) -- Tag, you're out!
Officials at an elementary school south of Boston have banned kids from playing tag, touch football and any other unsupervised chase game during recess for fear they'll get hurt and hold the school liable.
Recess is "a time when accidents can happen," said Willett Elementary School Principal Gaylene Heppe, who approved the ban.
While there is no districtwide ban on contact sports during recess, local rules have been cropping up. Several school administrators around Attleboro, a city of about 45,000 residents, took aim at dodgeball a few years ago, saying it was exclusionary and dangerous. [Video link edited out]
Elementary schools in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Spokane, Washington, also recently banned tag during recess. A suburban Charleston, South Carolina, school outlawed all unsupervised contact sports.
"I think that it's unfortunate that kids' lives are micromanaged and there are social skills they'll never develop on their own," said Debbie Laferriere, who has two children at Willett, about 40 miles south of Boston. "Playing tag is just part of being a kid."
Another Willett parent, Celeste D'Elia, said her son feels safer because of the rule. "I've witnessed enough near collisions," she said.
The utter stupidity mortifies me.
Tag.... too dangerous...
Sigh... the day will come soon that people will send their children to school, covered in bubblewrap.
Our grandchildren's generation will be so weak, if you call em a dummy-head, you'll cause them to break down, and if you playfully punch em in the arm, you'll tear their muscles. Geez.... Just let kids grow already. Enough with the overlyprotective laws. These people are like fun nazi's :U
Has anyone ever read the book "Rash"? Funny as hell, but scary. Reminds me of this.
This article is about nothing
They are banning unsupervised games. So what?
My primary school never allowed that and nobody gave a fuck.
*sigh*
You can protect kids, but this is going a bit far. I sortof prefer the way my own child has been growing. When he was much younger, he started eating dirt in the garden. "Oh, well. Either he'll stop, or he won't. Either way, his immune system will get stronger, and if he doesn't stop, we can use him to clean up the kitchen" was about the attitude his mother and I had.
He's now had his first week-long cold, after going to school. That's, first ever. He's also up about head and shoulders taller, and built to match, than anyone else in his class. And shows no signs of stopping, either.
I think we got it right.
Even more similar to this surreal scenario: Harrison Bergeron. Read it. Equality by achieving the lowest level possible for everyone. And who can ensure it? A super-elite that rules everyone with an iron fist, controlling every aspect of life and thought. And it all starts with the focus on self-esteem over accomplishment. Punish those who are stronger, smarter, and faster naturally. Bring them down to the level of invalids so the unalthletic or average children won't feel bad or get bruises. Meanwhile, the socialist elite will make sure you all stay that way and are unable to challenge their pseudo-Utopian paradise of 'equality'... by killing whoever tries to excell beyond the limitations they've imposed.
Again, read Harrison Bergeron. Give me rugged individualism any day over that hell.
Quote from: Kasarn on October 30, 2006, 08:03:40 PMThis article is about nothing
They are banning unsupervised games. So what?
My primary school never allowed that and nobody gave a fuck.
Isn't the US like...the fattest country in the world or something?
All of 'dem chubby american children probably need that exercise. :U
Quote from: FireKatKid on October 30, 2006, 07:56:26 PM
Tag.... too dangerous...
Sigh... the day will come soon that people will send their children to school, covered in bubblewrap.
Our grandchildren's generation will be so weak, if you call em a dummy-head, you'll cause them to break down, and if you playfully punch em in the arm, you'll tear their muscles. Geez.... Just let kids grow already. Enough with the overlyprotective laws. These people are like fun nazi's :U
Fun nazis indeed....I wonder want to ban duck duck duck goose next...What they afraid of scraped knees or something??? Getting bruises or cuts is the growing part of a childs life! It teaches them how prevent to have this problem again! 'A'
Quote from: Dakata on October 30, 2006, 08:16:18 PM
Quote from: Kasarn on October 30, 2006, 08:03:40 PMThis article is about nothing
They are banning unsupervised games. So what?
My primary school never allowed that and nobody gave a fuck.
Isn't the US like...the fattest country in the world or something?
All of 'dem chubby american children probably need that exercise. :U
It's not actually the school's job to keep kids in shape
It is, however, their job to make sure kids aren't injured
Schools have a duty of care and are easy targets for negligence cases.
My school pays for an insurance that covers those sorts of things. Isn't it the some in the US?
You know what hurts? FALLING OFF THE PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT. So stop whining about people getting hurt in a friggin game. Stupid schools. Anyone who gives ANYONE that much power to sue people (or something else like that) over kids' injuries from regular play is an idiot and looking for trouble. I BIT A HOLE IN MY LIP DURING A GAME OF CAPTURE THE FLAG when three people jumped on my head! Did my parents sue? Did I care? NO.
*hands out rubber knives* Let's stab peoples for taking away our childhoods one game at a time.
Quote from: ITOS on October 30, 2006, 09:17:13 PM
My school pays for an insurance that covers those sorts of things. Isn't it the some in the US?
Of course they would
And every time a kid is injured and insurance pays out the cost of that insurance increases
Schools try to keep costs to a minimum. If costs blow out then the school is closed and everybody loses.
OMG, I got a papercut while doing my schoolwork! Better stop giving assignments or another child could be visciously harmed.
Yeah, I wrote about this in my LJ a couple weeks ago. I'm just angry. It's no wonder child obesity is becoming more of a problem- they're not even allowed to run around even more.
Quote from: Aridas Soulfire on October 30, 2006, 09:21:12 PM
You know what hurts? FALLING OFF THE PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT.
I can tell you that back when I was younger, I was playing on one of those zip-line/flying-fox thingies when an older boy came up behind me and pushed me so hard that when I hit the end of the line, I fell off and landed on my back on the edge of the platform.
I was in pain for days >.<
Quote from: FireKatKid on October 30, 2006, 09:28:48 PM
OMG, I got a papercut while doing my schoolwork! Better stop giving assignments or another child could be visciously harmed.
I suggest you sit down and actually read your school rules sometime.
I know that's what we did when we were bored and we found all sorts of gems. The most common one that we'd talk about was the fact that rulers were banned.
Then we'd have a swordfights with them to point out how stupid the rule was.
Quote from: Kasarn on October 30, 2006, 09:52:20 PM
Quote from: FireKatKid on October 30, 2006, 09:28:48 PM
OMG, I got a papercut while doing my schoolwork! Better stop giving assignments or another child could be visciously harmed.
I suggest you sit down and actually read your school rules sometime.
I know that's what we did when we were bored and we found all sorts of gems. The most common one that we'd talk about was the fact that rulers were banned.
Then we'd have a swordfights with them to point out how stupid the rule was.
Just trying to get the point across that you can get hurt from anything. So you prevent Tag and Touch Football. That's not going to make anything safer. Why? Cause kids are masters at coming up with new games. Especially games involving running around for no reason, and smacking each other with things. It's all part of growing up.
Guess I didn't try hard enough, though... ah well.
Quote from: RJ on October 30, 2006, 09:46:51 PMQuote from: Aridas Soulfire on October 30, 2006, 09:21:12 PM
You know what hurts? FALLING OFF THE PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT.
I can tell you that back when I was younger, I was playing on one of those zip-line/flying-fox thingies when an older boy came up behind me and pushed me so hard that when I hit the end of the line, I fell off and landed on my back on the edge of the platform.
I was in pain for days >.<
I'm curious. What's a zip-line/flying-fox thingie? :B
And I still don't see how tag's dangerous. :/ Sure, the kids can shove each other, but it won't hurt if they fall into some grass or something. Might hurt if they fall on the blacktop though. (And it'd hurt more if the kids played tag the way I used to...by glomping instead of touching. Heheh.)
Quote from: FireKatKid on October 30, 2006, 09:58:51 PM
Just trying to get the point across that you can get hurt from anything. So you prevent Tag and Touch Football. That's not going to make anything safer. Why? Cause kids are masters at coming up with new games. Especially games involving running around for no reason, and smacking each other with things. It's all part of growing up.
Guess I didn't try hard enough, though... ah well.
That's the whole idea of supervision
As an Australian, I honestly have no idea how US elementary schools work but at my schools we had well defined "in bounds" areas and two teachers wandering each of the five areas.
Anybody who was deliberately out of bounds or playing rough got a swift kick up the backside
Quote from: Dakata on October 30, 2006, 10:03:17 PM
Quote from: RJ on October 30, 2006, 09:46:51 PMQuote from: Aridas Soulfire on October 30, 2006, 09:21:12 PM
You know what hurts? FALLING OFF THE PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT.
I can tell you that back when I was younger, I was playing on one of those zip-line/flying-fox thingies when an older boy came up behind me and pushed me so hard that when I hit the end of the line, I fell off and landed on my back on the edge of the platform.
I was in pain for days >.<
I'm curious. What's a zip-line/flying-fox thingie? :B
Um... You hang onto a little bar thing and then you can "fly" across.
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Kinda like that.
Quote from: Dakata on October 30, 2006, 10:03:17 PM
Quote from: RJ on October 30, 2006, 09:46:51 PMQuote from: Aridas Soulfire on October 30, 2006, 09:21:12 PM
You know what hurts? FALLING OFF THE PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT.
I can tell you that back when I was younger, I was playing on one of those zip-line/flying-fox thingies when an older boy came up behind me and pushed me so hard that when I hit the end of the line, I fell off and landed on my back on the edge of the platform.
I was in pain for days >.<
I'm curious. What's a zip-line/flying-fox thingie? :B
And I still don't see how tag's dangerous. :/ Sure, the kids can shove each other, but it won't hurt if they fall into some grass or something. Might hurt if they fall on the blacktop though. (And it'd hurt more if the kids played tag the way I used to...by glomping instead of touching. Heheh.)
Here is a picture
(http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/826315/2/istockphoto_826315_playground_flying_fox.jpg)
Quote from: Kasarn on October 30, 2006, 10:12:00 PM
Quote from: FireKatKid on October 30, 2006, 09:58:51 PM
Just trying to get the point across that you can get hurt from anything. So you prevent Tag and Touch Football. That's not going to make anything safer. Why? Cause kids are masters at coming up with new games. Especially games involving running around for no reason, and smacking each other with things. It's all part of growing up.
Guess I didn't try hard enough, though... ah well.
That's the whole idea of supervision
As an Australian, I honestly have no idea how US elementary schools work but at my schools we had well defined "in bounds" areas and two teachers wandering each of the five areas.
Anybody who was deliberately out of bounds or playing rough got a swift kick up the backside
Really. Cause at my schools, we got to do what the heck we wanted. Climb, run, swing, jump off of the play equipment. I don't recall ever that one of the kids got injured, other than maybe a few scrapes or a sore arm/leg. We even got to play near woods. And woods down south is full of ankle biters. o: That's the kinda recess I likes, mmhmm.
Quote from: Alondro on October 30, 2006, 08:07:54 PM
Even more similar to this surreal scenario: Harrison Bergeron. Read it. Equality by achieving the lowest level possible for everyone. And who can ensure it? A super-elite that rules everyone with an iron fist, controlling every aspect of life and thought. And it all starts with the focus on self-esteem over accomplishment. Punish those who are stronger, smarter, and faster naturally. Bring them down to the level of invalids so the unalthletic or average children won't feel bad or get bruises. Meanwhile, the socialist elite will make sure you all stay that way and are unable to challenge their pseudo-Utopian paradise of 'equality'... by killing whoever tries to excell beyond the limitations they've imposed.
Again, read Harrison Bergeron. Give me rugged individualism any day over that hell.
I've read Harrison Bergeron...a scary concept, because it seems pretty real. The more realistic scary scenario though could be in "Nineteen-Eighty-One", but that's just me. I'd just hate to see society crumple that low. Total and complete equality is just impossible to even think about, when it comes to the human mind...let alone try to do. I say how we are now is dystopian enough as it is...
As for the banning games thing...utterly stupid. I grew up in a VERY diverse elementary school. We played tag, jump-rope, and four-square (a personal favorite of mine). I fell a few times, yeah...but it's actually how kids learn to be careful, is by taking an action upon themselves. Enforcing it beforehand just seems like one of those kid things where if it's a rule, you HAVE to break it.
That's just like what I heard about them thinking of banning recess altogether. :erk
My nephew's school took away those hard red rubber balls and replaced them all with foam balls and gave dodgeball some stupid sicky sweet name like friendly ball or something. Pretty soon the kids, bored with the pallid little game they were supposed to be playing, took to throwing the balls at the pipes in the ceiling hard enough to wedge them up there then climbed the pipes to get them. So instead of getting their little adrenaline rush with only the risk of rubber burn and a bruise they are risking a broken neck. Brilliant.
They make the flyfoxes/ziplines too low to the ground for my tastes
Quote from: ninjannihilator on October 30, 2006, 10:14:43 PMHere is a picture
[PIC]
Oh. That. I've seen one of those before. :/ The school was stupid and put one near a blacktop though. So yeah, it hurt like hell if you fell.
Okay, I can understand people's concern, and I don't necessarily agree with the decision, but isn't there a bit of an overreaction here? I mean why is it that as soon as one school makes one decision, everyone begins to preach about "people aren't equal?" Are you even realizing what you're saying when you say that? You're saying that physical differences should be used as a means to discriminate. The backlash is scarier than the actual ban.
This fear of "Big Brother" is going to take us back to the pre-civil rights movement ifwe're lucky, back to lifelong indentured servitude if we're not.
I just think kids should be kids. Let them run around and get bruises and get dirty if they want.
I've got this image in my head that 20 years time kids will be going to school looking like the Bubble Boy...
Well thats a shocking image why people need to be shot in the nuts...
Quote from: RJ on October 30, 2006, 10:39:50 PM
I just think kids should be kids. Let them run around and get bruises and get dirty if they want.
Agreed :/ I'd be such a simpering cry baby if growing up I never had recess.
And by recess I mean games of tag, climbing ridiculously high monkey bars, dodgeball, and other games with a little bit of risk to them.
Quote from: FireKatKid on October 30, 2006, 10:15:41 PM
Quote from: Kasarn on October 30, 2006, 10:12:00 PM
As an Australian, I honestly have no idea how US elementary schools work but at my schools we had well defined "in bounds" areas and two teachers wandering each of the five areas.
Anybody who was deliberately out of bounds or playing rough got a swift kick up the backside
Really. Cause at my schools, we got to do what the heck we wanted. Climb, run, swing, jump off of the play equipment. I don't recall ever that one of the kids got injured, other than maybe a few scrapes or a sore arm/leg. We even got to play near woods. And woods down south is full of ankle biters. o: That's the kinda recess I likes, mmhmm.
Who said we couldn't at my primary school? Getting a metaphorical kick up the backside is embarrassing but no reason not to go back to whatever you were doing as soon as the teacher is looking the other way.
A bruise isn't risk. I don't see how you can get hurt by playing tag or dodgeball. They allowed us to play tackle football in Middle School until somebody complained about getting hurt. It's called a physical sport for a reason; you will get hurt. But really anything outside of football, lacrosse, and rugby; I am highly doubtful that you will get anything more than a bruise.
Quote from: Kasarn on October 30, 2006, 11:51:46 PM
Quote from: FireKatKid on October 30, 2006, 10:15:41 PM
Quote from: Kasarn on October 30, 2006, 10:12:00 PM
As an Australian, I honestly have no idea how US elementary schools work but at my schools we had well defined "in bounds" areas and two teachers wandering each of the five areas.
Anybody who was deliberately out of bounds or playing rough got a swift kick up the backside
Really. Cause at my schools, we got to do what the heck we wanted. Climb, run, swing, jump off of the play equipment. I don't recall ever that one of the kids got injured, other than maybe a few scrapes or a sore arm/leg. We even got to play near woods. And woods down south is full of ankle biters. o: That's the kinda recess I likes, mmhmm.
Who said we couldn't at my primary school? Getting a metaphorical kick up the backside is embarrassing but no reason not to go back to whatever you were doing as soon as the teacher is looking the other way.
Be that as it may, the fact is there's danger in everything there is in life. As people used to say, something along these lines, "a little pain builds character".
Either way, I'm bored with this topic, so I'm away to do something constructive.
I'm against this, but only because I know kids can get real stupid if they were left alone to be 'creative'; when I was six, one of the game me and my friends played was to crawl on hands and feet under someone on a swing :erk
Thankfully, my parents found out and stopped it before any of us got head injuries*.
*Unless you count having to pull your ears and do 50 squats 'head injuries' :rolleyes
I remember playing a variation of dodgeball not too long ago. I wonder if I'm still completely untouchable... Although there was that time I got hit in the nuts. That hurt, but it was fun anyways. I was right back in the game next round. Thank god for private schools.
In the end, the problem is the idiot parents who want to sue when their kid takes a spill even if its his or her own damn fault. Normally, I suggest simply destroying such individuals, but it occurs to me that simply stripping them of their right to sue might be the most beneficial and amusing option. May they be forever tormented for their stupidity!
Meh, during lunch we played Pegs
Pegs is like dodgeball... but with tennisballs...
You just go into a field and peg (ie throw as hard as possible) tennisballs at each other. The overall objective is just to watch your friends cringe in pain and have a good laugh about it.
If I had kids, I don't know that I'd want them playing that...
Whats next they ban...Leapfrog?
Leapfrog could cause neck damage to the person underneath
Kids will be kids but these decisions are made by adults to appease adults.
These decisions are made by people who are desperate to not get sued in a sue-happy country that awards ridiculous amount of money to whomever complains.
Soccer-mom : "My son cut himself while on school!" 'A'
Lawyer : "Sue them for gross negligence, and you can rake in the millions, and I can get richer." :mwaha
Judge : "You get $15000000."
Soccer-mom : :boogie
School : "No more scissors in school: kids will now have to learn how to cut paper without sharp things. Also, kids are now required to wear movement-restricting full body-armour before stepping on school grounds. We wouldn't want them to get hurt, now do we."
Kids : :crying
German mom : "My son cut himself while at school!"
German dad : "Sue 'em! In the US you would get gazillions for it." :eager
German Judge : "So what? The insurance already paid for a plaster."
German mom : :erk
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I hurt myself at a game of tag as a kid, but who cares? Three stiches and your done.
Shouldn't have run against that iron rod with my head. But so I avoided running around corners ever since. Doing something wrong (and often hurting yourself while at it) is just part of learning to do it right (or just not to do it).
On the other hand I really don't see a problem in someone supervising the kids while they play. It's safer for the kids and I understand that the school doesn't want to be sued. Telling the kids not to run around corners, because they could hurt themselves, has not quite the same impact as an iron rod, but it's educational, too. Besides: Out of school they can still play unsupervised.
Just so you're aware... the theory here isn't to prevent kids from getting hurt roughhousing, that's kinda part of being a kid. It's to prevent a kid from getting hurt roughhousing and a parent to go "CHA CHING!" and sue like a crazy donkey bitch from hell becuase the US has no anti-idiot-lawsuit laws.
And here I am, perhaps the only one who thinks that martial arts should be a mandatory part of PE grades four and up. Before that, it should be the kids' choice. Never mind overbearing parents; if we all learn to be a bit stronger, a bit tougher, a bit more disciplined and much more in control of what we do, even at an early age, we would have no need for this kind of crap.
*Charles favors the natural selection approach* Let the weak and inferior children be weeded out by scraped knees, papercuts, and rugburns! :mwaha
Quote from: Alondro on October 31, 2006, 07:44:04 AM
*Charles favors the natural selection approach* Let the weak and inferior children be weeded out by scraped knees, papercuts, and rugburns! :mwaha
You never fail to make me smile. Though I beleive that sometimes a bit more consideration would be appropriate.
Everyone looks more beautiful with scars, is what I say.
Quote from: Stygian on October 31, 2006, 07:53:27 AM
Everyone looks more beautiful with scars, is what I say.
Having scars is only cool if you're a guy.
Well, unless you're like me and have a shaving scar on your leg... then you're just gay :O
But a broken limb will make anybody instantly popular.
You know what's worse than that though, is when your school enforces one of those bullshit 0-contact rules in the lower grades. As I keep telling people and my mom keeps telling me, it can go a little like this: Some girl was crying in class because of something, and when I hugged her? 0-CONTACT. Screw you, teacher. Punishing kids for being nice? I think I know now why I always feel antisocial.
Seriously. It was NO TOUCHING. PERIOD.
Sounds like there needs to be an "I'm not touching you" protest
Stop! Tolerance time! Can't touch this! Duun-dun-dun-dun, duuun-dun...
And scars are cool on anyone, girls included. They make for nice details. I've got two in the face and a whole lot on my body, and my girlfriend has quite a few as well. Of course, all alone scars are mostly not beautiful, but put together and on a nice body...
No fair, my only major scar is from when my friend's mom hit me with her car :dface
Although I do have a scar on my hand. It's from when that same private school took a trip down to the Bahamas. It was hard to see things underwater without my glasses, and I ended up slicing my hand pretty good on fire coral. That was not fun at all. But no one sued... and to this day, the 7th and 8th grade classes visit the same place every other year. Booyah! :mwaha
1 2nd degree burnscar on my foot, the size of my-foot-when-I-was-a-baby. My mom (accidentily, I was told) dropped a kettle full of hot water on it.
1 scar-let in my left eye-brow from when some basterd fringe-criminal immigrant punched me in the head. That experience made me a lot more jaded towards immigrants.
I have dozens of scars on my face, many of which come from Physical Education.
That's one reason why I am not necessarily a fan of making everyone play sports.
We're talking about scars now?
...Well, I have stitches on my forehead from cracking my head open in 1st grade. :U A kid got pissed at me 'cuz I didn't wanna play with him*, chased me around the playground, and I ran into a table leg. (This was at a day care, not at school.)
* - He liked pretending that I was a little princess who was stuck in a castle, and he was a brave, UBAR-SEXAH knight who had to save me. >> And he wanted to play the "Knight saves the princess" game EVERY. F*CKING. DAY. GOD.
:U I don't like it. Little kids always have to notice it and go "HAY! You gots a scar like Harry Potter! :B"...even though it looks nothing like a lightning bolt.
*Rant rant rant*
Quote from: Aridas Soulfire on October 31, 2006, 08:04:20 AM
You know what's worse than that though, is when your school enforces one of those bullshit 0-contact rules in the lower grades. As I keep telling people and my mom keeps telling me, it can go a little like this: Some girl was crying in class because of something, and when I hugged her? 0-CONTACT. Screw you, teacher. Punishing kids for being nice? I think I know now why I always feel antisocial.
Seriously. It was NO TOUCHING. PERIOD.
Yeah, there was a rule that was kinda like that in my elementary school. :/ They only enforced it when kids were hugging and being nice though.
"OMG Izzat a 5th grader beating up a puny little 2nd grader? Who cares! Let's go yell at that boy comforting that sad girl and hugging her and shitz LOL"
Teachers just sicken me sometimes. :/
...Hell, alot of people sicken me. That's why I'm antisocial too. *Feh*
I have a huge scar on my right thumb from skipping stones.... If anyone here does that, make sure the stone you pick up is not coke (partly burned coal) as it can have razor-sharp edges that slice through flesh like a hot knife through butter. :E
*upon reading this note, the NJ legislature has banned stone-skipping. Violators will be sterilized* :U
I don't really have any big scars... they've pretty much all faded away by now. However, there is some weird white line/lump thingy on my left pinky. I have no idea what it is- it could be a birthmark for all I know since it feels like it's been there forever.
Quote from: Aridas Soulfire on October 31, 2006, 08:04:20 AM
You know what's worse than that though, is when your school enforces one of those bullshit 0-contact rules in the lower grades. As I keep telling people and my mom keeps telling me, it can go a little like this: Some girl was crying in class because of something, and when I hugged her? 0-CONTACT. Screw you, teacher. Punishing kids for being nice? I think I know now why I always feel antisocial.
Seriously. It was NO TOUCHING. PERIOD.
(http://missmab.com/Comics/Vol584.jpg)
All this no touching just reminded me of this.
I have a first degree burn on my entire right hand; soup. Third degree burn on my right thumb; soldering gun. Index finger on my right knuckle is cut; punched a kid with braces. My left knee has a deep cut on it; bicycle accident, I still don't know how it happened.
Quote from: ninjannihilator on October 31, 2006, 09:10:38 PM
All this no touching just reminded me of this.
Gee, ya think?
How does everyone keep getting burn scars? :aack I burn myself nearly every time I use a soldering iron. And in many other ways, like that time with the lantern, and that time with the exploding grill, and my favorite, the time I heated a piece of steel to glowing-red-hot with a propane torch and then picked it up. Melted the skin on my thumb and finger, but even that didn't leave a scar o.O
I used to get a few burns when I worked in McDonald's. I still have a small scar left on the back of my left finger from the time some moron pushed my hand into the heat lamps trying to get a packet of fries before I had even finished making it.
The only scars I have on my hands are the place where I pushed a knife into my left hand, slicing a freckle in two, and the place where I nearly sliced a finger in two, and got three stitches.
Which is surprising, since I worked at Mickey D's for a while, and collected the usual set of burns from the grill etc...
Other than that there's just the one through my eyebrow. Which matches the one my friend got, on the same day, except the other eyebrow. Apparently he was playing with his younger brother, and said "I bet you won't hit me in the head with that hammer."
.... nuff said.
We're on scars now? Interesting turn.
I have a faded mark on my left elbow, but I can't remember if it was from a scrape or a burn. Both of those happened in the same month, which sucked.
I've gotten burned more times than I can remember but for some reason a hot bowl of soup left a scar. :mowdizzy