Wrestlers Sue School For Giving Them Herpes
By Wyatt Earp | December 29, 2008
This is, by far, the funniest – and possibly the most frivolous – lawsuit ever.
The school is responsible for their herpes? That’s like watching a Pamela Anderson film and blaming it when you contract Hepatitis C!
In a related story, I am blaming the Philadelphia Police Department for my eczema. I will demand nothing less than a $20 million dollar settlement.
INSIDE THE HUMID confines of college wrestling practice, grapplers spend hours banging heads, grinding faces into the mat and contorting into uncomfortable positions. They spill a little blood and leave puddles of sweat.
In other words, things can get funky in there, and a wrestler can become a veritable petri dish for bacteria, viruses and infections.
James Harris knows all this. And he’s afraid that people will think he contracted herpes from a prostitute, instead of at wrestling practice.
“I feel uncleansed,” said Harris, 23, a former standout wrestler for Winslow Township High School, in Camden County. “There’s a stigma attached to it.”
Harris and two other ex-wrestlers – Andrew Bradley, of Delaware, and Alex Binder, of Maryland – are suing York College of Pennsylvania, in York County, claiming that coaches knew that a teammate had contracted herpes simplex virus Type 1, yet allowed him to continue wrestling and infecting others during the fall of 2006. (The Philadelphia Daily News)
Someone has to tell Bradley and Harris that “kissing the mat” is just a figure of speech. If you actually kiss the mat, you’ll catch a nasty bug . . . like herpes, for instance. Heh.
Topics: Snarkasm | 7 Comments »
Yuck! Haven’t they ever heard of cleaning that nasty mat????
Deanna – We have wrestling at the school where I coach lacrosse. I know they wipe it down with alcohol every night. Good thing, too.
Ewwwwwwwwww!!!! Sad for the guys involved, but ewwwww!
It musta been the mat. That hooker was clean, I tell ya! She told me so, and clean hookers never lie.
Hmm, could happen. Viruses are tricky things.
Ah, my alma mater.
All the wrestlers were homos, at least when I was there.
RT – Heh, heh, someone was being naughty.
John D – But they do overcharge . . . so I’ve heard.
Ky person – Yes, they are. Just ask Paris Hilton.
Moe – Eww! Must be the tights.