Monday, March 7, 2016

Guy saves kids face from baseball bat

"Apparently kid was on his phone had no idea."

Update: The hero was the kid's dad.



19 comments:

Methadras said...

I like how the picture show the bat in front of the face, then the bat behind the head and hitting the fatty behind the kid. Like the bat went right through the kids head and hit the fatty.

Chip Ahoy said...

Wow. The man's arm punches the kid while the bat flips behind the kid's head striking the person behind him decelerated. These two photographs say: three hits to save the kid's face from being struck directly with a bat, 1 strike the man's hand, 2 strike the boy's face with the man's arm with recoiled force, 3 strike the woman (also with phone) with the flipped bat slowed but still painful. Face saved but three people hurt.

It's uncertain how Darth Vader in red affected the physics. Maybe he's not repelling but calling the bat to his lap.

Chip Ahoy said...

It just now rained here. Rain!

Methadras said...

Looking at the photos again. I'm really entranced by peoples reactions. Even to people who aren't even near the bat. Darth Sunglasses is just holding his hands out thinking that just by doing that it will prevent the bat from hitting him and his hands aren't even in the general direction of the bat. The guy protecting the kids face has an expression that hardly even changes. He's just a get it done kinda dude. The O face guy cringing in the upper left portion of the photo really made me chuckle. People get really histrionic about projectiles don't they.

edutcher said...

No, a kid shout not have a phone at that age. He also should be watching the game.

A lot of the Duh out there is due to those damned phones.

PS Kudos to the guy. I hope whomever brought the kid had the manners to say, "Thanks".

Chip Ahoy said...

Lem, I saw your joke on Twitter. Late, I guess, I haven't been on. To Reddit about Sakhrakhotep I making a dinner reservation.

And how is that spelled?

We can go; empty circle, duck, two upraised arms, circle with levelers, basket without handle, offering table.

Thank you.

But you'll want to know what reddit readers do not know,

empty circle is Ra, sun god. His name is in the middle but moved up to front when writing 'cause he's a god and it's a scribe courtesy. Because everyone knows the Ra is really in the middle when you say it. Not when you write it.

Duck is Sa, and means "son" a common sign for a type of name and far less so within a same, but that is the name given on Reddit. It is not a real name.

Two upraised arms is the most common way to write "Ka" a portion of the soul and common in names.

Circle with Levelers is Kh sound its meaning is believed to be a placenta and so it's listed under parts of animals. It is an important sign and used a lot for the sound.

Basket without handles is "lord" and pronounced "neb" however basket with a single handle is phonetic for the sound "k" which we need. Lord is used a lot in names so we're using it although we need a K and not a neb but that's what we scribes do, we think of clever things like this for our pharaohs who are scribes themselves so appreciate what we do here. Basket for "lord" and say it like "k" this time. Kingly prerogative.

Offering table is a drawing of such but it takes up half a cell. Usually the "t" and the "p" of "Hotep" are provided underneath the drawing of the offering table because they are graphically appropriate, a tiny square and a tiny semicircle.

And there you have it. Now you understand this joke better than anybody on Reddit and better than anybody else on the internet. Go ahead and Google [sakhrakhotep] and you will see that it is not a real name. It is a name made for this joke. And now you understand this joke more thoroughly than anyone. Imagine that. You know this joke inside and out.



ricpic said...

When I was about 10 and worthless to the team they put me in right field where they thought I would do the least damage. Someone hit a blistering line drive - one of those liners that are hit so hard they actually rise in the outfield - directly at me. In a pure fright reaction my gloved hand shot up and *voila* I caught the ball, or rather the ball smacked the pocket of the glove so hard that it buried itself and couldn't bounce out. I lived on that catch for weeks.

Rabel said...

Trump is the bat. Bago is the bat blocker. The inattentive boy is America.

Seven comments in without a Trump reference I had to try something.

Meade said...

Maybe that kid will read Lems Levity, realize his stupidity, and stop staring at his screen during the game. If so, you have heroically smacked some sense through the kid's thick skulled fat head, Lem.

Kudos!

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Trump is master of all internets.

MamaM said...

Maybe a thinking adult who maintains a modicum of respect for Ann Althouse's artistic ability and way with words, will read Lem's Levity and wonder how thick skulled and fat a person's head needs to be for them to continue to demean themselves and dishonor her with remarks that continue to compromise his and her integrity.

As requested on the Do Not Despair thread posted previously, I am again asking you to Please stop compromising your integrity here and work at being the best you can be elsewhere.

MamaM said...

Trump is the bat.

Trump is the energy behind the swing.

Steg said...

Haha! Awesome. I've almost gotten beaned at ball games.

My family rents a private box once a year at a local minor league stadium with another family (not blood, but basically all family). I usually sit outside up against the rail and keep my eyes glued on the ball. This kid is exactly why.

One time my dad was trying to get my attention and I wouldn't look. I finally did, he said he was trying to ask if I wanted ice cream. That instant, a foul ball is hit and arcs perfectly towards my seat, everyone starts screaming, and I blunder to block my head. The ball landed three inches to the left of my seat, and some little kid from the next box over scrambled and grabbed it.

God damned. This is why I don't look away from the game. Then some remarks about how I should have fought that kid for the ball. Wise guys...

One other time, same stadium- but we were in the free picnic area past left field- a foul ball is hit in a high arc, and it is coming down perfectly on top of me. I am dancing while I follow it because I don't know which way to go! It lands about two feet to my 11 o'clock and bounces over my head.

But we're still livin', so everything's OK.

bagoh20 said...

Trump is the batter, and losing control of the bat was a master stroke of baseball genius never seen before or able to be understood by the other players. The team defending is the Democrats.

bagoh20 said...

Prosperity and reform is the ball that just got whiffed.

Methadras said...

MamaM said...

Trump is the energy behind the swing.


Actually Trump is the energy transfer between the surface of the ball and the surface of the bat. Nothing in this universe ever really touches anything else. It appears that way in reality because we feel things. However, what we are actually feeling is the particle force exchange between the electrons on the surfaces of everything. It's called Electrostatic Repulsion, and it's described by Coulomb's law. The closer objects get the more forceful the repulsion, but they never actually touch.

So Trump is effectively Electrostatic Repulsion between objects. Make of that what you will.

rcocean said...

Darth Vadar in the sunglasses always cracks me up.

ndspinelli said...

Enabling. The kid should have suffered the consequences of his negative behavior. I routinely stick out my elbow when youngsters are texting or simply not giving ground on the sidewalk. It is a one man behavior modification program.

Meade said...

Uh, hey Meth, did you not get the hush hush memo from Coach Spinelbowi? Ignay ornay Eedmay.