AJC.com - Tyler Strickland is spending the sweltering days of July wrapped in a sling from his shoulder to his wrist, unable to swim, cut his food or bang out a tune on his electric guitar. He sustained the injury during a required activity at school. Gittens is hoping the school will stop the game for fear of other students being injured. The Twin Rivers Middle School student said he and classmates were asked to participate in a souped-up version of tee ball for teens. They swung a wooden bat at a volleyball perched on a traffic cone during gym class. His parents say that the force of the bat against the ball caused their son to experience debilitating shoulder pain that later required surgery. “I believe it was an idiotic thing to ask kids to do,” said the teen’s stepfather, Ken Gittens, a veteran Gwinnett firefighter. “For any action there is an equal and opposite reaction. It would be just common sense that if you whack a volleyball as hard as you can, the bat is going to bounce back and you are probably going to get hurt. Someone who has gone to college should know better.”
Tyler, who is more artistic than athletic, has been seeing doctors since April. “I was in a lot of pain,” he said. “Even if I didn’t do anything, my shoulder would hurt. I still am in pain.” As Tyler recovers, he has to sleep sitting up. His mobility is limited and so is his summer fun. “I have to help him wash his hair and get dressed," Jill Gittens said. "Tyler has had to endure something he should not have had to endure at 14 years of age. He lost out on summer.”
The tragedy here is not that Tyler Strickland lost out on a summer at the pool or can't make the girls wet with his sweet electric guitar licks anymore. No, the real tragedy is that Ken and Jill Gittens were allowed to cultivate such a gigantic pussy and mix him in with the general population of Twin Rivers Middle School. It's a god damn miracle that this vag didn't contaminate the entire student body during this game of "souped up" tee ball. If this had been my class I woulda sniffed this kid out on day one and given the Kenny Powers, "I can already tell that I don't like you. And I'm probably not gonna like you no matter how many pull-ups or push-ups you do. And anybody who wants to pick on anybody in class, aim for him, 'cause I'm not watchin'" speech.
And his dad Ken can save his fuckin physics lesson for someone who understands physics. “For any action there is an equal and opposite blah, blah, blipity blu blah." You lost me at action dude. To me, common sense would indicate that if you spent one afternoon on a baseball diamond with your son instead of taking him to pottery classes then his arm wouldn't have ripped outta the socket the second he tried to hit a deflated volleyball with a wooden bat. I thought a fireman who didn't go to college would've known that.
But hey, it's time for Tyler to stop whining like a little bitch and turn these lemons into lemonade. Why the hell you wanna be outside when it's sweltering anyway? Every other 14 year old kid is probably hunkered down in their basement playing PS3, ripping back cans of Monster Energy and jerking off to pornhub every hour on the hour. But for some reason Tyler is just sitting up in his room having his mom with the big rack comb his hair and dress his ass. At least don't let this perfect opportunity to develop some masturbatory dexterity pass. I remember I fractured my right wrist in seventh grade and by the time I got the cast off a month later I could fuckin switch hit for average.
PS - I think they could've left out the part about him being more artistic than athletic. Pretty sure when you go down with a tee ball injury that requires Tommy John surgery that's implied.
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