‘Love you so much’: Teen who died after private run it straight-style game identified
I enjoy contact sport.
It requires an immense amount of skill to do this in a way that minimises injury.
That skill comes from immense training and focus within a regulated environment.
That isn’t what ‘run it straight’ is about.
It has taken the most damaging parts of contact sport and made that the sport.
It is not a skill to run full tit at another person.
These contestants are not ‘trained’ in the sense there is no training for this.
The so called ‘safety’ measures are someone putting you immediately into the recovery position.
My fear is that it is the cash prizes for this are generating a need for many men to try it.
Unemployment is 5.1% but 9% for Māori and Pacifica.
It is desperation that is driving these contests, not legitimate competition.
It’s like ‘Running Man’, but without Arnold.
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Authorities should can an issue an immediate instruction for the people organising this crazy “sport” of running into other people. You can insist the people taking part are required to make their will. They must specify their funeral arrangements: where to take place, the music to play, ordinary burial, natural burial, or cremation.
Duncan Garner a fan
Precisely, Bomber. It is poverty that drives desperate people to earn some of that body-crash cash.
The exact same desperation that drives people to accept minimum wages and poor and precarious working conditions.
Run it Straight is a symptom of our disgraceful chosen economic system.
Personally, I’ve been unemployed for awhile now, and am ineligible for any state help. It’s a case of finding some work or sink, so I can completely understand why these guys are putting their bodies and brains on the line for a cash prize.
I’m sure they are not doing it for glory or shits and giggles. More likely it’s just to pay down debt and feed their whanau.
Sorry to hear of the tough time in your life that you are sharing with us, I hope that you can get some financial help if you have no income.
I disagree with your idea that this is a sport to feed Whanau, it seems like some trumped up idea on TikTok that has taken over. It should be illegal, as in fact bulrush was made illegal because kids were getting paralysed. When I was a kid we used to play bulrush and love it, but it’s not worth the candle.
It’s also like when we were young we would drive by White Island on the way to somewhere and be fascinated by the white smoke coming off this mysterious, forbidden island. How ever did that dangerous place become a tourist venture? No one was allowed on it because it was an active volcano in the past. What changed? Nothing. As the predictable deaths told.
I see it as Darwinism in action.
Darwin thought that natural selection would allow advanced life to develop, there’s nothing advanced about this activity. We have more than enough evidence to show that Darwin didn’t know anything regarding the origin of life so it’s time you had some concern for others and supported them from exploitation by others as the love of money is used to endanger their life.
The short attention span.
Why watch a whole game of rugby when there is $20k run it straight.
Why watch a 15 x 3min round boxing match when there is $50k one minute fights.
https://youtu.be/xtY2bQjKtRM?feature=shared
Yes – there’s the lure of high-risk quick cash in a time of economic austerity. That’s just as exploitative as the big-time capitalists at Sky City.
But even more damaging in the long run is the embedding of the myth of the heroic self in the minds of young men with little experience of the world. The idea that how you get on in this world is all down to you, and if you fail you are not as tough, determined, hard-working and brave as you need to be. It’s you that’s the problem – you are losing out because you are a ‘loser’. This myth of the heroic self dovetails perfectly with neoliberal economic ideas – that the world is just, that markets are perfect instruments producing optimal outcomes for all rational actors, that hard work and skill are proportionately rewarded. It’s a toxic pack of lies.
Out of idle curiosity, could a death in this result in a manslaughter of “unlawful killing” charge? Perhaps with the promoter as an accessory?
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