It’s a tradition at my kids’ high school for the parents to host on elaborate party on Graduation Night. There’s lots of food, entertainment and literally thousands of dollars in donated prizes (top prize this year was a new laptop computer.) The event is heavily chaperoned and the students are locked in – if they leave, they aren’t admitted back in. Mrs. Kunilou and I chaperoned two years ago when the princess graduated, and even she admitted to enjoying herself.
According to the twins, Saturday night’s event was going fine until it was time for the bungee races. as one of the runners was straining, the bungee harness broke, the cable snapped forward hitting the runner in the back of the head, then hit another runner right next to her eye. There were bodies down, blood all over, ambulances called and a general damper on the rest of the evening.
Mind you, this was at a carefully planned, supervised event.
Next year the parents may want to consider the orginal alternative for student recreation – drunken sex in the parking lot.
Coulda been a bunch of drunk sex in the parking lot, a bunch of drunk kids on the highway, teeth, hair & eyeballs all over the concrete. So some kids have a couple welts. i’m sure there are a few hundred 'rents out there who would gladly have their dead/dying kid trade places with the one with the black eye!
I wouldn’t call that “horribly wrong”. Horribly wrong to me is more like food poisoning or the building on fire.
This sounds more like “Unfortunate Accident at Grad Night” type stuff. It sounds like a pretty stupid game to play, though. I would question the parents’ judgement who came up with it.
All in all, I am in favor of these types of grad parties. The local high school here does something similar for grad night. The last couple of years it’s been a Monte Carlo Night type theme.
Quite frankly, I lack trust of anythying with elasticity that isn’t an undergarment. Sorry this had to happen, but are simple things like “Pin the Tail on the Donkey” really not worth their salt any more?
Ok, I’m not even sure how I meant that. I think it is very cool that y’all get involved with the local graduations and that it is made an interesting event. I can’t really find any fault, except that you seem to think making enormous slingshots out of your kids will be beneficial.
The Bungee races I’ve seen involve a moon walk type inflated thing. There are two channels for a person to run down. The runners wear a harness and have a bungee cord attached to it. So you run on the bouncy surface with this thing pulling you back. The main reason for the moon walk thing is so you can fall down and not get hurt. Generally you see who can go farther not faster.
I would love to see the local newspaper headline. “Wholesome, drug-free festivities end in wholesome, drug-free tragedy.” Oh, well. Safe, sober, chaperoned parties for kids always seem like a lot of fun – until someone loses an eye!
