"Kick a Ginger Day" at Canadian School causes injury to teen

Sat, 11/29/2008 - 2:27AM by Shadowdamage 5 Comments - 69 Views

I always knew in Scotland that having red hair, or "being ginger" usually earned you a bad rap.

Evidently these red-headed kids in Canada are finding things just as hard...."National Kick a Ginger Day" resulting in a Facebook page created to spread the word, and the subsequent battery and bruising of at least once student.

Student Ken Logel said: "I have a few buddies with red hair, you just kind of kick them lightly just as a joke but when it gets carried away that's not cool."

Ooohkay.

You know, I enjoy Southpark. Its one of my favourite programs, having found out about it way back with the original "Christmas Card" that circulated on the net many years ago.

However, I am beginning to think we have some real idiots watching Southpark these days....never ONCE have I watched Southpark and thought "Oh hey, that's a GOOD IDEA, I AM GOING TO GO DO THAT."

Too many e-numbers in your crisps, kiddos? Has the world gotten this idiotic?

Yes..I fear it has.

One of these kids may grow up to be your doctor. Yeesh.
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Source: ITN News (UK) / Yahoo news (UK)

ITN LInk:
http://itn.co.uk/news/a9cf37a22885b2fb840d22adc7f89989.html

Yahoo Link:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20081125/twl-police-probe-attacks-on-redheads...

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Horrible!!!

Sat, 11/29/2008 - 5:20am

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Good morning Shadowdamage! (I ain't gett'n in this)
GKitty

Sat, 11/29/2008 - 9:51am

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Crazy.

Reminded me of this though lol


Sat, 11/29/2008 - 1:08pm

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As a redhead (brown-red), and a mom of a redhead (blond-red) in the US, I find this to be revolting. I guess some people who find this to be funny don't consider this to be minority bashing. After all, natural born redheads only make up 3% of the world's population. We're a REAL minority!

Wed, 12/03/2008 - 5:54pm

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Its strange, because I had never seen such a thing until I moved to the UK and heard my (then) Scottish husband going on about "gingers". Suddenly it dawned on me that it was a BAD thing somehow. Well, call me surprised because as a kid, it was cool to have freckles (I wanted them) and I dyed my hair red, auburn and strawberry for YEARS just because I loved it, and it was kind of popular to do so. I never thought for a moment anyone would think otherwise. It was just..another hair colour!

But yeah, definitely there's this...thing about being redheaded in Scotland anyway....and its not positive. I had no idea it was in Canada also until I read this story.

Hithatsmybike, that was SO dead on...!

Thu, 12/04/2008 - 9:38am

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