D'Arcy Waldegrave: Sportstalk host on a teenager dying in a private run it straight-style game

A 19-year-old has died after suffering a head injury during a tackle game - known as run it straight - with friends on Sunday. 

Police say the impromptu event was based on a social media-driven competition, where people run into each other for full-contact collisions without protective gear.

Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave explains further.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Darcy water Grave sports talk hosters of me. Hey, dus,
what do you.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Try the write honorable Chip? Would that work? Okay?

Speaker 1 (00:08):
So what's happened is I always get texts after I
talk to Chippy and it says stupid stuff like this.
I'll stop calling him chippy. Some respect would be nice,
for example, just quoting the text that I got from Neil. However,
today I seem to have just an abundance of these texts.
Now I'm prepared to deal with this. Okay, this is

(00:29):
what you're talking about, Darcie. I'm prepared to deal with this.
What I want to ask is Neil and anybody else
who's just text me and said I need to stop
calling him chippy? Could you? Just because I want to?
I want to respect your opinion on this, so which
means I need to know what your argument is. Can
you see me in just really short, little praisie of
what your problem is with me calling him chippy? And

(00:50):
we will deal with it forthwith.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
I did a bigger problem with calling politicians right and honorable?

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Where they come from?

Speaker 3 (00:56):
Quite well?

Speaker 2 (00:56):
How do they demand there?

Speaker 3 (00:58):
You know?

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Just whatever s politics?

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Send it to me. Nine nine two. We're going to
sort this out once again for all, and we're not
going to talk about it ever again.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Woman of the people.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
I've got a serious voice on now, Darcy.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Jeez.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
I mean, we said that this was going to happen,
nobody expected it would happen this quickly, But now we
have a nineteen year old dead from playing Run It Straight. Apparently, Well, it's.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Not run it Straight, the official version. It was a
backyard version of Run It Straight. Ye, it's the same thing.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
It's copycat action.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
It's all over social media and I've seen quite a
lot of that, also, the new one where it's basically
people having a one minute brawl in the backyard, and
that is terrifying. It whoa waiting was something to go
wrong there? So copycat played a game of that head
injury couldn't come to him from died Palms the North
last night.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Seriously, how hard, assuming no underlying issues, how hard do
you have to knock your head to die from it?

Speaker 2 (01:53):
You've got to.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
Look at the reaction of your brain within the fluid
in your cranial.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Cavity was the word I was looking at. Thank you
very much, So you can call me chippy if you.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
Wan't doing that but it bounces against the inside of
your head and also with your spinal cord and your
spinal column. If that takes a whack with whipblash, that
can do damage as well. And if it's just a collision, yes,
it can do a huge amount of damage. The thing
is there's no mitigating factors when you're in a backyard.
I suppose at least with rugby league rugby union, you've

(02:26):
got stand down periods for concussion, You've got people watching.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
You, you get dragged off the park, you looked at this
is just it's sad.

Speaker 4 (02:33):
It's guy's falling around the backyard and bang, and it
just shows how fragile human life is that people need
to listen to this. You are not indestructible. Your body
is pretty strong, but it's also got huge frailties and
for a death to actually occur, for people to stand
up and take notice. And I'm looking at teams and

(02:59):
players that have got connects with professional sport when they
stand next to us or be seen in the game
of this and go, he that's good. That that's that's
that's pretty encouraging.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
People approp to mate from the rabbitize.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
To be involved with your friend from the rabbitize that
that is legitimizing.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
The fact that this is really really.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
Dangerous, stupid, it's just stupid.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
Well, I've joked about it being a Darwin fairy.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
Thing, but I think education is massive.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
People aren't educated as to what you may do in
a situation like this.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
They're going to keep going. And we've got to type atray.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
A Hume joining us on the program, who's involved with
a U T when it comes to the collision of
human bodies and pathways and human bodies and what they
can and can't cope with.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
She was instrumental twenty odd.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
Years ago in the ACC programs around looking after concussive
health and the like. So children and us to talk
about that, it's just awful. I'd rather not, but I
think on this platform, the amount of people that we contact,
we have to make a point of this, and we
have to put it out there so people actually know

(04:14):
it's uncomfortable, as unpleasant actually as and I feel so
much for his family, for the other person involved in
the collision.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
It's just all around.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
Darcy, thank you listening. You'll be doing world's you know,
the very good thing to talk about it. This evening
Darcy a Wadagraph sports talk host seven o'clock. For more
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