Latest / Early Edition with Ryan Bridge / Ryan Bridge: Is Run It Straight really that dangerous?

Transcript

Ryan Bridge: Is Run It Straight really that dangerous? · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: The moral outrage over run it straight competitions is a
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: tricky one, isn't it. More and more young men and
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: then more of them that run at each other head
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: on and try to knock each other out. As the
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: injuries piled up, the hand ringing well cranked into gear,
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: and lots of pearl clutching, lots of horror, lots that
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: I'm aghast. The reaction from some rugby stars and sporting
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: legends was a bit more nuanced, for obvious reasons, because
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: they also run full steam ahead at one another of
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: a Saturday, with great risk of personal injury and even death,
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: certainly the chance of broken bones and a concussion on
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: a rugby field. They do this because A they enjoy it.
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: B It's often all they've ever known, and c presumably
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: because it pays well, and that's the problem of the
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: outrage over run it straight. They had a guy in
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: the news yesterday who won twenty thousand dollars in trials
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: held in Auckland. He's now booked on a spot in
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: a final in Dubai. The money, he says, these are
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: his words, putting clothes on his kid's back. He said this,
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: We got to pay off some debts, stock up the
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: fridges and the cupboards food for our little ones. Especially
• 1:10
  Speaker 1: with the economy of the way it is in New Zealand,
• 1:12
  Speaker 1: nothing's cheap these days. He saw this as a couple
• 1:16
  Speaker 1: of hours work with a huge payday, And I happen
• 1:20
  Speaker 1: to think if somebody wants to play a high risk
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: sport like rugby or UFC or anything on horses, then
• 1:27
  Speaker 1: good on them to their life. I'm not here to
• 1:29
  Speaker 1: judge the question for the rest of society, and this
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: is what our listeners most often email me about when
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: it comes to run it Straight is acc To qualify
• 1:39
  Speaker 1: for acc your injury must be the result of an accident.
• 1:45
  Speaker 1: An accident is basically something you didn't intend to happen,
• 1:49
  Speaker 1: happening a mistake. Run it Straight is bloody dangerous, but
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: I think ultimately its injuries are accidents like rugby, like
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: horse riding. The system doesn't judge based on the threat
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: of injury, just whether it's an accidental one or not.
• 2:14
  Speaker 1: For more from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge, listen live
• 2:17
  Speaker 1: to News Talk Set B from five am weekdays, or
• 2:20
  Speaker 1: follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.