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What are the health and safety risks from this game? Do the chestnuts fragment violently when they break up?
by schoen 2y ago
What are the health and safety risks from this game? Do the chestnuts fragment violently when they break up?
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- 946789987649 2y agoaccidentally hitting each other
- schoen 2y agoI can't really visualize the amount of momentum involved, or how sharp the chestnut is. Is that specifically about eye injuries, or could it hurt someone some other way?
- lazide 2y agoIf you whip it above your head at a good 100-200 rpm, anything is possible.
- schoen 2y agoAfter writing the above comment, I watched videos of people playing conkers and now I understand how it could, in theory, cause an eye injury. It was hard for me to visualize how close the defender's conker is to the defender's body before seeing the video. I was somehow wrongly imagining that it was being supported on a much longer string or with the help of other objects somehow.
- ryanjshaw 2y agoLiterally the first video I watched, 2:28 min in, kid gets knocked in the teeth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egBjZaKNLuc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egBjZaKNLuc
- arethuza 2y agoAh yes "accidentally"... ;-)
- ratherbefuddled 2y agoMostly it increases teacher stress levels having to referee.
- mellosouls 2y agoImagine swinging two stones (many techniques to harden conkers including the game itself evolving the brutes by elimination) together at high speed with fingers and faces in very near proximity.