Male hubris and the pernicious culture of virility on full display:
A high school baseball team in California was in its final practice of the season Tuesday when they heard loud screeching, followed by a young girl screaming.
In the parking lot next to the baseball field of Valley High School in Elk Grove, a mother, who was dropping her daughter off for an after-school program, accidentally put her car in reverse and ran over her own child, according to baseball coach Troy Quirollo.
“We hear what sounded like a car accident and we look over and we see one car, basically bouncing up and down,” Quirollo told For The Win.
The players’ reaction was immediate. Both the JV and varsity teams sprinted to the parking lot, some even jumped over the dugout, Quirollo said.
“They didn’t even discuss what to do,” he said. “They just went out there and did it.”
Quirollo, who dialed 911 once the team reached the scene, said he figured about 10-15 players helped pick up the car. He said the back left tire was on top of the girl’s back and she was bleeding near her ears. Assistant coach James Milholland was the one who pulled the girl out from underneath.
The mother was hysterical.
“I don’t think she knew what happened until it was over,” Quirollo said.
After police and firefighters arrived, Quirollo pulled his team aside and congratulated them on saving this girl’s life. He also made it clear that if anyone wanted to talk or felt emotional, coaches and school counselors would be available.
Quirollo then dismissed the team, despite there being a game the next day.
It seemed the best way for the players to let loose and de-stress was to play baseball. The next day was the Vikings final league game of the season, and although they lost, Quirollo said it was the best game of the year.
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The Sacramento Police Department declined to comment on the girl’s condition, however she is expected to make a full recovery according to The New York Daily News. Additionally, Quirollo said he’s heard that the injuries sustained were just some scrapes, bruises and a fractured bone behind her ear — remarkable considering his team found her pinned underneath a tire.
In other words, minor injuries, and yet here they are, celebrating themselves as if they were heroes, or as if women needed their unrequested help to begin with.
Presumptuous, arrogant, hyper-masculinized and almost ritualistic male-centric esteem building. All of it providing a smokescreen behind which is hidden the screaming subtext that women are too weak and vulnerable to live in world without clans of men bound together by a fidelity to their tribe and their implements of war.
I’d be outraged if I wasn’t already so outraged at the perpetual lack of outrage over such outrages.
(h/t my wife, who as a former women’s studies major should know better).
And in typical fashion, after they barge in on these wymmins’ private and traumatic activities, they celebrate by playing baseball. Do they have any idea what callous disregard this shows for the intrinsic dignity of those whom they’ve despoiled?
found her pinned underneath a tire.
Kind of car? Amount of curb-weight, additional current load? Kind of tire? Inflation of tire? Back of the envelope calc. could be as low as 30lbs/sq. inch to as high as 50+lbs/sq. inch. Which isn’t nothing, but isn’t a hydraulic-press either.
Every now and then you see something that gives you some hope. Obama will do something to dash those hopes into little pieces as soon as he’s done with his next golf game.
Valley High – not just a school, a whole way of life.
Yes — but USA Today is wrong about one thing: Valley High School is not in Elk Grove — if it were, the agency responding would have been the Elk Grove police.
It’s part of the Elk Grove USD, but it’s in Sacramento city.
Psshhhh. Reporters.
The little girl who was brutally stabbed to death in her own home in Calaveras County a month ago? I knew the 12 year old brother did it when there was an immediate BOLO for a Bushy Haired Stranger. No signs of forced entry, weapon of opportunity and eyeball witness big brother equals suspect/likely perp.
I could have saved that county and its people a lot of time and worry.
leigh, I knew it too (I am so cynical/skeptical/suspicious), I was trying to figure out if the police knew it as well and were trying to set up some sort of trap for the (step) brother or other family members they may have suspected.
private cars are killing the planet for future generations, might as well use it too kill your kid now and save some time.
I hope that car was a Prius. “Run your kid over and she’ll barely have a scratch on her!”
bgbear, I think the big problem for the police was the (step)brother being a minor. I don’t know if they have to have an advocate with them when they (the cops) question the kid or not in California. Anyone who has worked on the murder police for any time at all is going to look straight at the immediate family for answers.
It’s got to be awfully hard to tell the dad that the step-kid is the suspect while Dad is grieving the loss of his baby girl. I see divorce on the horizon and natural mom filing a lawsuit. Although what is to be gained there is negligible, since they all appear to be dirt poor.
I don’t think the immediate interview of the kid would fall into the Miranda-type or other rules of evidence that applies to minors. Urgent necessity etc.
Yes, thank goodness the rear of cars are not as heavy as they used to be with the drive shafts and all. A Prius battery weigh about 100 and is in the back along with the gas tank so, like having an adult riding in the back.
As Instapundit is fond of saying, “A pack, not a herd.”
The kid is a sociopath. Take him out behind the barn and put a bullet through his head.
They didn’t move that car off that girl. It wasall the people that came before them (who incidentally oppressed and blanketed the indigenous people into near extinction) who deserve credit.
Agreed, cranky.
When we were young and foolish, we occasionally found it amusing to pick up the odd Mini and put it somewhere incongruous. We were once caught in flagrante delicto by the lady owner. “Put that car down!” still sounds funny.
SW, I had a classmate in high school who had one of the tiny Hondas that were built in the 70s. The boys often wedged it bumpers touching, between the pillars at the top of the steps in front of school.
7-10 baseball players might be able to pick up a bugeye Sprite.
leigh, see I’m not the only one. Other guys have a sense of humour too.
A few months after I moved to PA, I was invited to go to the mall with some of the neighbor kids to do some Christmas shopping. The parking lot was packed, so when we saw a little roadster double-parked, our first instinct was to drag the thing over so we could park next to it.
As we were getting ready to shift the thing, I suggested, “Instead of moving it over, why don’t we just turn it 90 degrees? He’ll never get out of this parking lot!” My new friends learned two things that day. The first is that it’s worth it to royally screw over some jerk, even if it means you need to keep hunting for a spot. The second is that Squid is one seriously vindictive sumbitch.
If you were in Lancaster in ’84 and this happened to you, I’m
really, truly, honestly, terriblynot at all sorry.No comment from the damsel thus far; she is tired.
About which axis?
I recall a bunch of us picking up a VW Beetle belonging to a youth counselor dude and putting it on the sidewalk. Good times.
High school, two teachers with identical tan VW beetles. I wonder if they ever figured out why their cars weren’t in the spots they thought they were in.
About which axis?
The evil one.
If I’d been prone to hanging out with my high school’s football team, there was at least one car that would have been found on the gym roof.
Sadly, it probably would have been mine.
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