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Originally Posted by GBK
The paper airplanes are nothing more than a release. It would be very unfortunate if anyone got hurt, and no one has the intent of hurting anyone. I feel it would be a freak accident if someone lost an eye to a paper airplane.
Just like anything it is easy to get out of hand. A plane made of card stock and/or flying them when someone is on state speaking are examples of getting out of hand. To use reasoning of someone having to clean them up is way out there. At the end of the day on Friday some of the girls on our team were picking up the area we were sitting in and noticed that the entire section next to where we were sitting and the area in front of where we were sitting was real bad. Without being asked they picked up both sections with the exception of the area that a team sitting next to us in our section due to them still sitting there. When the matches were over the team that was sitting next to us, got up and left, leaving a huge mess in their area. Even after seeing our students picking up the rest of the section and the section next to us. So I doubt that it would be paper airplanes that would give the cleanup crew a bad taste for FIRST.
/old man rant done.
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I also agree that the cleaning up part is not a valuable reason why to not throw paper airplanes. When our team left, we went through our area where our team was sitting with garbage bags and cleaned everything up; including the paper airplanes that fell from above. If anything, the paper airplanes needed to stop when the ceremony started. It was extremely disrespectful and took away from those speaking. Although I stand neutral on if other teams should throw them or not, I know I enforced with my fellow captains NOT throwing them or throwing the ones that landed in our crowd due to the safety reasons.