Great Video

[brattom]

I hope this hasn't been posted yet, but this is awesome...


Tom

[tubatom91]

at first I thought it was just another band playing another march. but wow too funny.

[tubaguy9]

That'll teach her to break rank!!!

I remember (since it's not long ago...9 mos.) people wanting to break ranks...

[Todd S. Malicoate]

Wow...call me an old fuddy-duddy, but I find nothing funny about tripping a little kid.

[TexTuba]

[Todd S. Malicoate]

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Forgive me for being bull-headed, but I don't understand what you're getting at.

See, I have a special-needs son who is 7. This is exactly the sort of thing he might do...get excited, escape from whoever's watching him (say, grandma, for instance)...and run by the tubas (he calls them too-butts), not knowing he's doing anything wrong.

It's one thing for rude, impatient people to "break ranks" through a formation. I understand the sentiment. It's quite another to hurt a little kid like that just for being a kid. I guess the video would have been even funnier if the kid had broken a couple of teeth out on the pavement, huh?

I'm not calling for you to pull the video down, or to stop commenting, or anything like that. I merely added my opinion to the discussion as everyone else can. That's thuggish behavior from that sousaphone player, and it was totally unnecessary.

[BriceT]

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Forgive me for being bull-headed, but I don't understand what you're getting at.

See, I have a special-needs son who is 7. This is exactly the sort of thing he might do...get excited, escape from whoever's watching him (say, grandma, for instance)...and run by the tubas (he calls them too-butts), not knowing he's doing anything wrong.

It's one thing for rude, impatient people to "break ranks" through a formation. I understand the sentiment. It's quite another to hurt a little kid like that just for being a kid. I guess the video would have been even funnier if the kid had broken a couple of teeth out on the pavement, huh?

I'm not calling for you to pull the video down, or to stop commenting, or anything like that. I merely added my opinion to the discussion as everyone else can. That's thuggish behavior from that sousaphone player, and it was totally unnecessary.

I think this might be over analyzing it. This is all in good fun.

[TexTuba]

[tokuno]

An adult intentionally tripping a child. How cold-hearted and wrong.
I'm saddened to think that folks might celebrate this video as an example of humorous or just behavior.

[sc_curtis]

A good paddling would have been more in line and more of a croud pleaser.

I agree, except these days paddling hurts self-esteem. You can't expect these fragile kids to be able to take the same stuff we had to take when we were younger.

Yes, kids are supposed to be silly and get in trouble. But the other half of that equation is people like us reminding them that they shouldn't do that. If it happens to be in a funny manner, that much better, I say.

[46K]

I think this may be staged because:

1) see how the kid halts before he runs trough the ranks in order to time his run
2) what a coïncidence that he smacks to the ground exactly in time with the cymbal accent at the end of the phrase the band plays.
3)If you play the sousaphone you can hardly see anything to your left hand side, so I think the only way that sousaphoneplayer could have actually seen the kid coming at that speed, would be because he knew he was coming.

And should I be mistaken, well: play with fire....
And in how far can a split second action/decision/mistake be called deliberate?

Mark

[46K]

An adult intentionally tripping a child. How cold-hearted and wrong.
I'm saddened to think that folks might celebrate this video as an example of humorous or just behavior.

Do think the picture beside your name is more funny?
Mark

[tubaguy9]

I think this may be staged because:

3)If you play the sousaphone you can hardly see anything to your left hand side, so I think the only way that sousaphoneplayer could have actually seen the kid coming at that speed, would be because he knew he was coming.

And should I be mistaken, well: play with fire....
And in how far can a split second action/decision/mistake be called deliberate?

Mark

Wrong. You, with a sousaphone have a peripheral vision on your left...but if he had a marching tuba/contra, then I'd completely agree.

However, I do almost agree that it seems staged. If you watch it, then you'll notice that the other 2 coincidences are true...which the odds are rediculously low that a kid would do that if it was staged.

If the kid was doing it unconsciously through the band, then the kid would have been slower likely...possibly...

[J.c. Sherman]

Kids are supposed to be silly and play. And they're supposed to be punished when they are disrespectful, behaving dangerously, or hurtful. If I had seen a parent chasing the little cretin, then I might be miffed at the tubist. And I'm not saying he's right to have behaved as such (but I'm guessing that wasn't the first pass that kid made pst them). But I'm not the least upset that the kid got hurt. Life taught him a lesson which his parents seemed unwilling to teach. And he walked away from it. Maybe the little idiot won't move up to running around moving traffic next time.

I think the kid got a perfect Karmic comeuppance. And his parents ought to be saying "you deserved it". But I'm guessing they don't give a damn.

J.c.S.

[Biggs]

Does anyone know the origin of this video? FWIW, I think the kid got off easy. He's lucky he didn't try the same stunt with some disorderly college marching band.

[J.c. Sherman]

Does anyone know the origin of this video? FWIW, I think the kid got off easy. He's lucky he didn't try the same stunt with some disorderly college marching band.

Or a Mack truck...

J.c.S.

[PWtuba]

An adult intentionally tripping a child. How cold-hearted and wrong.
I'm saddened to think that folks might celebrate this video as an example of humorous or just behavior.

Do think the picture beside your name is more funny?
Mark

Ouch...

[tokuno]

An adult intentionally tripping a child. How cold-hearted and wrong.
I'm saddened to think that folks might celebrate this video as an example of humorous or just behavior.

Do think the picture beside your name is more funny?
Mark

That's an avatar and as such, represents me well. Curiosity met by ill-advised empirical study. Until they remodeled in the 90s, my parents' home had a blackened outlet covered since the 60s in masking tape from an aluminum comb incident (dating myself - don't see those much anymore). Another time, I discovered that the ends of toothpaste tubes were, indeed, conductive when placed across night light leads in the bathroom.

This being an election year in the states, we're very familiar with the "if you can't discredit the message, discredit the messenger" gambit.

So, consider a known source: I challenge any of the video's supporters to ask your mother how she would feel if that child were her grandchild. If she approves of the musician's behavior, then:
1) I'm sorry for your upraising.
2) I advise you to avoid having her watch your children for you.

[THE TUBA]

This video seems to be making its rounds online- I just saw it posted in a marching band-themed forum earlier today.

Personally, I don't find the video funny at all.

[J.c. Sherman]

So, consider a known source: I challenge any of the video's supporters to ask your mother how she would feel if that child were her grandchild. If she approves of the musician's behavior, then:
1) I'm sorry for your upraising.
2) I advise you to avoid having her watch your children for you.

I did just that. Her reaction was "where are his parents?!? That kid needs a leash!"

J.c.S.