Monday, January 19, 2004

Danger Ball

Danger Ball is a ball exactly size of a volyball but with the grippy texture of a basketball, like a mini-basketball, it's black in color, and the catch is that it weighs 10 pounds. Danger ball wasn't meant to be dangerous at all, in fact it is sold as "medicine ball" for people with joint problems to lift it as a way to get the exercises recommended by their physical therapists but when it's thrown at people intentionally it earns its nickname, danger ball.

Last year I had the fortune of spending a great deal of time at a friend's house who owned a danger ball. Playing danger ball was a party favorite, people loved getting knocked outa their spot by a speeding 10 pound ball hurled at'em, drunk or sober, men and women, short and tall alike. It was always a great mystery what would happen (or what would break) when someone missed catching the dangerball, once a stray ball hit the computer on the floppy button and ejected the floppy 8 feet out, another time it landed on a synthesizer and scared the bejesus out of the people involved. Danger ball is not a sport for weak hearts, do not try it at home boys and girls.

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