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Old Fri Apr 22, 2016, 04:38pm
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True about rule but I am certain FU saw it as a safety issue. Wanting to teach a kid a lesson would not justify harming him. It would have been real easy to break F3's ankle. It would also be morally repugnant and unethical.

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Your bucket of reasons for penalizing R1 is leaking worse than the Titantic. If R1 effects a legal slide and during such a legal slide makes contact with F3, there is no infraction of the rules, even if F3 is injured. Stop trying to enforce a rule that does not exist.

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Old Sat Apr 23, 2016, 01:52pm
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the slide has to be legal.

That means butt cheek and one leg on the ground. I cant envision a case where the slide is legal but still rises in my judgment to malicious contact. I guess there could be a case when you judge intent to harm even when the slide is legal.
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Old Sat Apr 23, 2016, 09:34pm
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the slide has to be legal.

That means butt cheek and one leg on the ground. I cant envision a case where the slide is legal but still rises in my judgment to malicious contact. I guess there could be a case when you judge intent to harm even when the slide is legal.
Go for it. Let me know how that goes for you.
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the slide has to be legal.

That means butt cheek and one leg on the ground. I cant envision a case where the slide is legal but still rises in my judgment to malicious contact. I guess there could be a case when you judge intent to harm even when the slide is legal.
Fairly easy to envision such a case....an otherwise legal slide coming in spikes high could easily be MC.
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Old Sun Apr 24, 2016, 09:24am
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Fairly easy to envision such a case....an otherwise legal slide coming in spikes high could easily be MC.
No need for high spikes - F3's leg is on the ground.
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