Dayton James Webber, 27, is a professional cornhole player. He was 10 months old when he had a blood infection that cost him his limbs.
It's hard to picture a quadruple amputee shooting a gun, but we are told that he was also driving a car, he shot the front-seat passenger, and there were also backseat passengers, and when they got out of the car and declined to pull the victim out of the car for him, Webber drove off with the victim still in the front seat.
And so it goes for the shining example of the notion that anyone can do anything.
By the way, who knew there was a professional cornhole league?
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Modifying Rule # 34: If it's a thing then there's pros in it. (Bottom line: If it's a thing (ie, money to be had) then pros will come to it.
He's a shining example of the slogan "Don't Mess With a Quadruple Amputee." They might have anger issues. Justifiably so.
Artificial limbs and hook hands? Captain Hook?
If you don't have much to work with, you may find a way. See "My Left Foot" (1989). See piano music written for use by the left hand only.
The protaganist in "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" had all kinds of purpose-built tools serving as his prosthetic arm. He was quite, errr, "handy."
Somebody has to chime in with l'idée reçue: I'm from the West Coast originally and that is not what "cornhole" means.
I looked it up so you dont have to. Cornhole is a lawn game where you toss a beanbag and try to get it through a hole. Its horseshoes with a beanbag.
I guess overcoming a handicap doesn't make you a nice person.
Hmmmm. Cosby. Cornhole. I do believe I've detected today's theme.
I think the West Coast cornhole is more than just an idea that is received.
Don't forget the village people reference
Apparently, a top professional cornhole player can earn "tens of thousands" of dollars to supplement his day job.
There is a professional Whiffle Ball league.
…I was going to make a quip about ESPN8 but knowing this crowd there would be a stampede of corrections and oneups..:
The lawn game cornhole seems to be a midwestern and eastern US thing. Cornhole is rather common in some regions, but...yeah...it's not used to describe lawn games in California...
who knew there was a professional cornhole league?
Not I, and I confess that my mind goes very juvenile when considering the question.
There's something creepy about the modern obsession with both cornhole and pickleball.
Originated Castro and Tenderloin districts?
Oh, never mind.
Apparently the killer goes by the alias of Matt and or Bob
Artificial Instruments (AI) are the great equalizer of strength, not character. #HateLovesAbortion
He's obviously done very well for himself, but I could see how that guy might be really angry at the world. Not an excuse, of course.
Whoever is unjust, let him be unjust still.
Whoever is righteous, let him be righteous still.
Whoever is filthy, let him be filthy still.
Witness what seemed impossible goin’ down
When the Quadruple Amputee comes around.
I’ve been a Jarts man since before Jarts were subversive, back when they were grandma’s house mainstream…
Teh Man did NOT stop short.
I heard they can’t show corn hole matches on Only Fans now.
I’m gonna go out on a limb and say the man had some aspirational dreams and knew how to hold a grudge
Howard:
Maybe cornhole and pickleball reveal the desire to eat while exercising. "...buy me some peanuts and Crackerjack..."
Or, they are just a low-impact, low-skill-of-entry sports that don't result in injuries when you get hit. Contrast with Lawn Darts and hardball batting helmets.
He's an all-around athlete. Besides cornhole he has a lot of experience playing second base.
"There's something creepy about the modern obsession with both cornhole and pickleball."
I think it's wholesome. It says put food in the name of your sport and people will like it. Enough of this base, foot, basket, hock business. Be more delicious.
Trapped in myself, body, my holding cell
Landmine has taken my sight
Taken my speech, taken my hearing
Taken my arms, taken my legs
Taken my soul, left me with life in hell
Metallica, "One"
He also took a shot at stand-up comedy but it didn't work out.
Don't condemn the man unless you've walked a mile in his shoes.
Come on people. I can't carry the load all by myself.
"There's something creepy about the modern obsession with both cornhole and pickleball."
The only “creepy” thing about it is where some minds will take it. It ain’t slap ‘n’ tickle.
Not only quadruple amputees, but pickleball can killyou:
https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/cheerleading-legend-dies-freak-pickleball-143830308.html
Be careful out there.
Bocce beats the hell out of cornhole for drunk party games in the back yard.
Except that one time... When I was young, "cornhole" had an entirely different meaning in my part of the world, and I was shocked and delighted when a pretty sorority girl at a party asked me if I wanted to be her partner for a game of it.
Cornhole is a lawn game where you toss a beanbag and try to get it through a hole.
The beanbag is filed with dried corn. It's a midwestern thing, I think.
When I was a kid in Arizona, we had never heard of the beanbag game, but we knew the word. Just like "Ficta" above, for us it had a very different and X-rated meaning.
In support of Rabel….
I remember when Webber used to play second base for our neighborhood baseball games.
When entertaining abortive ideation for causes other than self-defense, consider a selfie.
That old cruel joke: "Can James come out and play baseball with us?"
Ficta said...
"Somebody has to chime in with l'idée reçue: I'm from the West Coast originally and that is not what "cornhole" means."
Believe me. The guys that invented it, knew exactly what corn hole meant.
@Howard: "...Don't forget the village people reference...."
If they're singing YMCA, somehow I'm thinking he might be at a disadvantage when it comes to the chorus.
Here's an idea worth "tens of thousands of dollars": "Ham Hockey"
Touche, Althouse. I am become the creep 🤪
I saw a video of him firing a pistol. Fascinating.
“Cornhole” evidently doesn’t mean what it used to mean
It always, I mean every damned time, I laugh, heartily when I think there’s a sport called Cornhole. It HAD to be done purposely and if it wasn’t, I’m disappointed. I’m listening to Sloppy Drunk by the awesome and mighty Best Farmers right this second.
Now Money Talks by the Scorchers!
“And so it goes for the shining example of the notion that anyone can do anything.”
Absolutely! This is the most inspiring thing I’ve read in years!
It says put food in the name of your sport and people will like it
Squash. Horse racing....hmmm mixed results...
I guess you do cornhole when curling is out of season — or is it the other way round?
Ann Althouse said...
"There's something creepy about the modern obsession with both cornhole and pickleball."
I think it's wholesome. It says put food in the name of your sport and people will like it. Enough of this base, foot, basket, hock business. Be more delicious.
LOL
By the way, who knew there was a professional cornhole league?
/raises hand
There's also professional knife throwing and ax throwing, too.
What kind of defense can he use in court? He doesn't have a leg to stand on!
Can't be charged with armed assault, either.
Oscar Pistorius was also very inspirational until he shot someone.
Ah, yes, Manuel Garcia O'Kelly Davis and his "social arm". Why did I end up in the timeline that has Peter Strzok but no "Adam Selene"?
Cornhole is an old Indigian game, but they called it “maizehole”. Jim Thorpe was the greatest maizeholer of the 20th century
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