| 10 February 2012
If you like to play sports but there simply isn't enough potential for bodily harm out there for you, you might want to head up to Toronto where they have started the world's first Ultimate Tazer Ball league.
The game is simple, two teams square off on an indoor soccer field, with four players per team, the aim is get the oversized inflatable soccer ball into the opponent's net. The catch: the players are all carrying Tasers to use on the opposing team to get the ball back.
Fun!
While this sounds completely made up (and who knows, maybe it is, I'm a reckless blogger!) the founders of the league insist it's all real.
The Tasers on the field are all significantly less powerful than those the police use, coming in at about 300,000 volts.
"It's not technically a police grade Taser," said Eric Prum, 25, one of the founders of Ultimate Tazer Ball. "That being said, the first thing the [players] will tell you is that they hate getting tased. Those things really do hurt."
The league currently has four teams and features such crowd-pleasing spectacles like watching the players "muscles to spasm, therefore [they are] going to drop the ball, you’re going to trip, you’re going to fall over. And it’s fun," said Mr. Prum.
Don't worry though, there's no malice intended, "[The players] all have a mutual respect for each other and we’re not out there to hurt or inflict injuries to one another," Plum continued. "We’re here to entertain people."
Of course, there's still just one remaining hurdle...technically it's illegal for the Canadian teams to practice with live stun guns...
Looks AWESOME!
[National Post]
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