(Bastard Pingpong Balls!)

DERRY – Dawn Macomber of Derry is outraged. Why? She said that Hannaford Supermarket on Manchester Road was targeting young teenagers like her son, B.J., who is a seventh-grader at West Running Brook Middle School, when they placed a display holding pingpong balls in close proximity to where alcohol is sold.  Macomber is upset that a store that promotes a healthy lifestyle would sell pingpong balls in the same place alcohol is sold. She claims the pingpong display was put up so the store could sell the necessary equipment for beer pong, a drinking game designed to get players drunk quickly. "They are being blatant about it. There were packages with 12 pingpong balls," Macomber said. "The manager told me they were being sold as toys, but there were no paddles being sold. All the kids know what they are for." . The fact that children her son's age are already practicing to play drinking games when they are older is an even bigger concern. "There are kids his age playing water pong. There is a concern about water poisoning with these kids," Macomber said, referring to what she has learned about beer pong's popularity through the Internet and recent media coverage on the game.

12 ping pong balls in one package?   NOOOOOOO!!!!!!    Seriously when is enough enough?     We can’t continue to let ping pong balls corrupt our nation’s youth.   What we need is a good old fashioned ping pong ball burning.    Because as long teenagers can continue to buy these things or even look at them they will continue to abuse alcohol or worse yet water.    It’s a risk we can’t afford to take!  Thank you Dawn Macomber.    America needs more heroes like you.

- Thanks to Josh