C.A.W.B. (Citizens Against Water Balloons) is a non-profit organization formed in 1995 to combat the rising incidence of water balloon violence. Since then, we have gained over 1 thousand members and launched an Internet campaign to stop water balloon violence and bring our message to the general public. In a study conducted at the Wright School of Medicine, researchers launched a water balloon at a stationary watermelon 20 feet away. When hit by the balloon traveling at 40 meters per second, the watermelon exploded. This fact alone should be enough to convince those skeptical of our organization to stand up and voice cries of outrage.
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Corn On The CAWB - The Third Annual C.A.W.B. picnic is scheduled for June 14, 2002. There will be hot dogs, corn on the cob (of course!), potato salad, and maybe even some pineapple jello if regional chairperson Rob Grundy is up to it. Bring your kids for safe, non-violent games, such as running and seeing who can jump the highest.
SUPPORT THE INTERNET CAMPAIGN TO END WATER BALLOON VIOLENCE! Are you the operator of a web site? Then let your voice be heard! Download the graphic at the top of our site and paste it on your web page along with a link to the C.A.W.B. home page. With your support, more people will be able to hear our message.
PAGES CURRENTLY PARTICIPATING IN THE INTERNET CAMPAIGN TO END WATER BALLOON VIOLENCE:
JOIN IN THE RAMCO NOVELTIES BOYCOTT! Help stem the rising tide of water balloon violence by joining in on the boycott of Ramco Novelties, Inc., the makers of the popular "Water Balloon Sling-o-Rama" toy. Since its introduction to the marketplace in 1994, The Water Balloon Sling-o-Rama has caused two minor injuries in its users. Mrs. Gladys Sugorski, organizer of the boycott, calls Ramco Novelties, Inc.'s refusal to remove the Water Balloon Sling-o-Rama from the marketplace "an outrage" and urges you to help her in this cause.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON CITIZENS AGAINST WATER BALLOON VIOLENCE, AS WELL AS FREE LITERATURE AND AUDIO CASSETTES, WRITE TO:
Citizens Against Water Balloon Violence
PO Box 1756
Grand Central Station, New York,
NY 18978-1234
A MESSAGE FROM WILLIAM P. GOOTHBLAB, FOUNDER OF CITIZENS AGAINST WATER BALLOON VIOLENCE:
Well, it's finally happened. C.A.W.B. has taken its cause to the brave new world of cyberspace. After two years of publishing a bi-weekly newsletter, calling radio stations across the country, and holding town meetings all over this great land called the United States of America, we're now able to reach more people with this single web site than we ever could before. I only hope more "Netizens" and "Hackers" will take our message to heart and throw their deadly grenades known as "water balloons" into the garbage.
Did you know that last year, an estimated .01 percent of all users of water balloons suffered serious injuries as a result of their "fun" actions? As a society, we should be outraged, but, as many have pointed out, we're fat, overfed, stupid, and too lazy to go to our City Council meetings, write our Congresspeople, or talk to our neighbors about this deadly pastime. NOW IS THE TIME FOR ACTION. Get our of your chairs! Call up your radio stations, write your representatives, hold boycotts, and do WHATEVER IS NECESSARY to stop this DEADLY FUNGUS called "water balloons" that has seeped its way into every pore of our collective beings.
I thank you for taking the time to read this, and for being brave enough to take a stand.
Subject: Water balloon anxiety
From: PSYMED <PSYMED2@worldlynx.net>
Are you serious? Donations for a $30 drum head? Water-balloon-related violence? Please tell me you are sort of cosmically joking around.
Unfortunately, this letter is representative of the attitude of most of the populace towards our organization. CITIZENS AGAINST WATER BALLOONS IS NO JOKE, cosmic or otherwise. This web site was created to bring forth the message that water balloons are dangerous and harmful to the millions of Americans who consider them safe, harmless toys. Remember, when you participate in a water balloon toss, you're tossing away your safety - and just maybe your life.
