Sack Tapping Costs Young Boy a Testicle
A seemingly innocent sounding game named “sack tapping” is actually a violent, dangerous game spreading like wildfire among today’s teen boys. A Minnesota boy recently had to have one of his testicles amputated after being “tapped” in the groin. The name tapping is completely deceptive. The tap is actually a punch. The game apparently started out as flicking or tapping but has progressed and is now much more violent. Several other names exist for this game.
Dr. Scott Wheeler is the pediatric urologist who performed the surgery on the young boy. He reports he actually performs a testicle amputation surgery three to four times a year due to this dangerous game. The so called game involves another boy punching their peer in the groin before said peer can hit them first. YouTube has hundreds of clips of this game and boys across the country are getting a good laugh out of another’s obvious pain. The videos are big hits, inspiring even more boys to get in on the action.
This latest incident has brought nationwide attention to this problem that seems to be growing in popularity in schools across the US. 14 year old David Gibbons was hit in the groin by a fellow classmate while changing classes. His mother was completely unaware of the incident until after midnight when the boy woke up in excruciating pain. The parents of young Gibbons have since removed him from school and will be enrolling him in a different school within the district. School officials claim they are looking into the incident. 
I teach high school and had a student out for surgery last month. He volunteered that it was on his testicle – now I understand why. Is this assault or a violent game amongst consenting knuckeheads?
That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever head of.
What a bunch of morons.
The kid deserved to have his testicle amputated.
What a great way to get rid of surplus testosterone. It’s almost as good as lining boys up on opposite sides of a war line and having them shoot at each other.
This is wonderful! The idiots are sterilizing themselves, thereby not spawning any more idiots!
It’s called natural selection, and these fools are thankfully deselecting themselves.
This “game” is incredibly old news, this has been going on since anyone whose under the age of 25 can even remember. Im in high school myself and I can tell you that punching wouldnt fly, thats a straight one-way to a fight. A light tap that catches them off guard and makes them jump more than hurt them is what people actually try to do. Its exactly the same as a punch to the arm or a slap on the back amongst guys. These kids were idiots and bullies and these people heard of “tapping” and decided to blow it up and link it to this. Ridiculous, although this retarded violence needs to stop and i wholeheartedly agree, Im pointing out the sensationalism.
Problem is that they don’t ask if the reciver is a willing participant in the “game” and do it without warning. Its not a game of concent, but instead a string of constant revenge refered to as a game. Bullies at school once again..
Awesome client! Parents with kids doing this better be poor because they will be hunted for life to pay the damages to the children they harm (and attorney fees!!!!). Not to mention criminal charges against the violent felons they call their children.
this is not an optional game its been around for years and you just get punched while walking down the hall for no reason even if people dont know you
u idiots maybe its not voluntary to be the recipient
@Dave
I know! do we need a new type of darwin award now? Or do we just add them to the at risk category? LOL!
Holy Moses–there is only one good thing about all this–less breeding by the truly stupid and violent up and coming next generation. In sTX, one 17 year old gang idiot had produced 11 children with 8 women, a hotbed mother lode of stupid breeding stupid. So…..let’s see, hit me in my very tender parts…oh, yeah–possibly affect me for the rest of my life and I’m only 14, sure…”there is no dumb ass vaccine”. J. Buffett