The First Rule of Fight Club...
The First Rule of Fight Club... is don't tape yourself being an idiot and leave the camera for the police to find when you run off tail tucked under ass.
This beauty is brought courtesy of everyone's favorite state, Texas. I don't know what funnier - the fact that parents are so oblivious or that these kids are so stupid?
Kids are beating the crap out of each other for fun? You don't say! Someone profitted from it? No way! Unbelievable! Personally, I liked his reasoning...
"I just used my business-savvy mind," says JacksonCan't say he's lieing, heh.
An interesting reaction was taken by the school Superintendent...
Mac Bernd, superintendent of the Arlington Independent School District, says ringleaders have orchestrated fights the same way they do parties: through word-of-mouth, phone calls and text messages. Text-messaging enables instigators to inflame a minor dispute between teens at breakfast into a full-scale brawl by lunch. "You have an electronic rumor mill that moves at the speed of light," he says. That's why Bernd, despite the objection of some parents, is outlawing all telecommunications devices for the 2006-07 school year — including cellphones, pagers, beepers, PDAs, digital and video cameras, MP3 and CD players and video games. The ban covers 74 schools with 63,000 students, including a half-dozen high schools with 20,000 students.To be fair... while I doubt it'll solve this specific problem, it definately will help the school environment. Im just happy Im out of high school where this kind of authoritarian control can be, and unfortunately, needs to be, excercised.
Beyond that, police said parents found this a "shocking revelation" that their kids would participate in such things. Let's be fair - parents finding out the music their kids listen to will come as a shock to most because they are too busy paining off the 2 summer homes, the cruise vacation, and the brand new beamers to keep track of their kids or even spend a little time with them. And yes, as youll notice, this affects rich communities as well...
We had this when I was in high school. It wasn't exactly filmed for distribution (though it was filmed at points) and it wasn't out in the school parking lot but in a basement or a deserted field somewhere in the woods. Usually boxing gloves were used - but not always. I wonder if our community of parents knows that their kids haven't just been 'falling down' when they come home with black eyes and bloody lips.
And of course, the media can't help but stick video games into the argument...
Fight clubs tap into a dark, nihilistic "part of the American psyche fascinated by the spectacle of blood and violence," says Orin Starn, cultural anthropology professor at Duke University who teaches about sports in American society. "This does seem a phenomenon of the Mortal Kombat, violent video game generation. The fight club offers the chance to bring those fantasies of violence and danger to life — and maybe have your 15 minutes of fame in an underground video."Idiots. I AM part of this so-called 'Mortal Kombat' generation and I'd love for them to point out how many violent acts I've participated in my life. Stop blaming video games, start blaming parents. Parents love to find scapegoats for their own irresponsibility and the media is handing it to them on a silver platter.
And again, the first rule of fight club...
This statement seems blatently obvious and I feel the best support for it is the last line. Beyond that, you never wanted to be considered the 'snitch'. Hell, if you didn't want to get the crap kicked out of you or see someone else get knocked out, you did like I did and made sure to avoid these events and turn down invitations to participate. Kids enjoy this and if anything, it's the parents fault for not keeping closer tabs and at least being able to talk to their kids.Durden's main rule for his club became the movie's signature line and a slogan in popular culture: You do not talk about Fight Club.
Teen fight clubs in Arlington often and elsewhere follow that advice, and police and school authorities have been frustrated by the wall of silence that has surrounded the clubs. Not one of the hundreds of parents who viewed clips from Agg Townz 2 at several community and church meetings seemed to have a clue that fight clubs existed — or that their kids were involved, Hawthorne says. Among local teens, he says, the clubs have been common knowledge.
"It was a revelation for the parents," notes the NAACP's Sibert.
Bernd and other school administrators say most teens, even the ones absorbing the bloodiest beatings, refuse to roll over on fight-club participants for fear of retaliation by ringleaders or gangs involved.
"It's almost like the kids have created a completely different world we don't have access to and don't understand."Don't sound so surprised officer, that concept isn't going to dissapear anytime soon.
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