High school track has changed. Runner attacked!

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

With a tube that weights maybe 6 ounces?

Weight has not a damned thing to do with force. Take a physics class. Force equals mass times acceleration. What you lose in mass you make up for in acceleration.

 

[No Way]

I know THAT.

Do you?

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

Virginia high school track star attacked by baton-wielding opponent during state title race

Tucker – who had earned silver in the girl’s 55m dash earlier in the meet – was attempting to cut into lane one during a battle for second place in the front pack as she was rounding turn fou…

nypost.com

This is not your father's track meet.. Girl attacked!
We can debate all kinds of nonsense here but the only real question is, what should the attacker's punishment be? I would say a 6 month stay in a hard labor camp ought to do it.

She dindunuffin

 

[Darkwind]

Weight has not a damned thing to do with force. Take a physics class. Force equals mass times acceleration. What you lose in mass you make up for in acceleration.

I've forgotten more about physics then you've ever learned.

 

[Jarlaxle]

Weight has not a damned thing to do with force. Take a physics class. Force equals mass times acceleration. What you lose in mass you make up for in acceleration.

I've forgotten more about physics then you've ever learned.

Apparently including the formula for calculating kinetic energy: half the mass, times the velocity SQUARED. Velocity is more important than mass: double the velocity and the KE is quadrupled.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

I've forgotten more about physics then you've ever learned.

Apparently not if you don't think a baton can cause a concussion.

 

[whitehall]

Violence at high school sports events is not uncommon. Nobody seems to mind when genetic men brutalize girls and women in events.

 

[Scoutster]

Good to see her charged!

High school runner who hit opponent in head with baton faces assault and battery charge

A high school track athlete faces a misdemeanor charge of assault and battery after a viral video showed her hitting a competitor's head with her baton during a race.

abcnews.go.com

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Whatever the weight of the baton was, the force was enough to fracture the victim's skull. So no matter how you want to recognize the light weight, the fracture still has to be accepted and explained.

 

[CrazyTrader55]

This young lady is about to find out what happens when you don't play fair.

 

[the watcher]

This one in Texas didn't end well either. Frisco student stabbed to death at championship track meet