Testimonials
My two sons were having a great time at my youngest son, Abel's, pinata birthday party. Until Abel started hitting Kevin in the head with the stick. The party ended with a trip to the emergency room and five stitches for Kevin.
David Reid
We lost our beloved parrot, Polly, to pinata violence. A neighbor boy came by after a Pinata party and convinced our son Jon that Polly was filled with starburst candy. Jon beat poor Polly to death with a bat.
Brenda Edelbrock
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April 7th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
My poor puppy was recently attacked by a pinata beater. I called the cops and cried under my bed. I am still afraid to go outside without a bag on my head. I don’t want want to be know as the boy who’s puppy got attacked by pinata beaters. One day punks….ONE DAY!!!!!
April 7th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
We recently engaged in the beating of a pinata. We enjoyed this activity very much. We hope that you will one day see the truth of pinata beating in a different light. We see through your mask of lies.
April 14th, 2008 at 7:02 am
YOU ARE A QUACK, PINATA’S DON’T CAUSE VIOLENCE. SPACE CASE MOTHERS LIKE YOU DO. IT’S ALL IN HOW YOU RAISE THEM. I BET YOU THINK GUNS KILL TO DON’T YA???????
April 16th, 2008 at 7:01 am
Vinne,
If you’d bothered to read any of my blog, you’d know I am a father, not a mother.
Second, Guns do kill. Statistic after statistic has shown that when you remove guns from an environment, violence, and deaths, go down.
Giving kids a pinata is like giving kids a loaded gun and hoping nothing happens.
April 18th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
I just have to say I am pretty sure this website is just a joke. I have a very hard time believing that what you say happened to you is true. I’d like to see some evidence. I am on to you. It would have been funny too if you hadn’t started bashing the Mexican people along with the pinatas.
“Pinata bashing is ok. People bashing is not ok.”
Maybe we just need to post that as a warning sticker on every pinata sold. Would that satisfy you???
April 19th, 2008 at 8:02 am
Patricia. Broken bones are not a joke. What evidence could I provide that you couldn’t dismiss? Photos of me in the hospital? could be somebody else or faked. Xrays? Could be faked. I created this site as a warning.
Second. I am not a racist. You misunderstand my comments. The United States is a gun culture. We idealize violence. We sexualize our children. If anything, I think Mexico, with its strong religious beliefs, may be a better culture than ours. BUT. Physical violence is an ingrained aspect of Mexican culture. They do routine kill bulls in totally inhumane ways to the cheers of thousands. They do encourage their youth to smash pinatas with bats. And their criminals do cross the border to kill our police officers in Arizona.
I have nothing against Mexicans, I just think we’re importing some poor values making our own country even worse.
April 25th, 2008 at 10:24 am
You people better stay clear of me, after all the pinatas i’ve bashed, i’m liable to kill someone. Also you really just keep digging yourself in a hole with the racism. You clearly do have something against Mexicans if you think they have poor values and are making our country worse. You seriously need to listen to yourself, and think before you write down your inane racist comments.
May 20th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Guidelines to a pinata (white people pay attention):
*Remember culture is learned behavior so Latinos learn the guidelines of pinata techniques at a very early age.
*have the pinata in an open area where there is room to move and hang the pinata on a long limb away from the tree.
*make sure you get a real pinata, the ones made with chicken wire that have the danger of cutting, so when kids get greedy and reach in the pinata they learn the valuable lesson of being thankful for what you have.
*the stick should be light and hard, half a broom stick is the norm.
*when the pinata breaks stay low and crawl in for the candy/dulces, this avoids getting hit if the breaker takes a couple more swings
*the one who breaks the pinata should know when he/she breaks it and normally would drop the stick and use the bandanna as a portable pouch for the candy, only practice makes you a good pinata breaker.
If I’m missing anything please let me know, or if you have any questions on the intricicies of pinata breaking i will be happy to answer questions for you.
May 21st, 2008 at 12:12 pm
YOU HAVE TO EDUCATE YOUR CHILDREN TO NOT BEAT ANYTHING UP! When you buy a piñata, you tell them that it is the ONLY thing allowed to be bashed! Believe me, if you leave a gun out for a kid to find and they find it, they will play with it if you have never taught them the damage it can cause! You have to teach your children not to beat people up with a stick! And Mexican people have lots of values! family values, religion, friends, compassion, and for you to say that our country is a country of low morals and values is just wrong! I am mexican, I was born and raised in Mexico, still live in Mexico, we treat you americans with the best damn hospitality every time you come here! Yet you have the nerve to call us violent?
Please open un your mind a little and try to understand that our cultures are very different, for instance, we know to teach our children that people bashing is wrong, but piñata bashing is fun, if you’re careful!
May 21st, 2008 at 12:38 pm
You hilarious americans make me laugh to death!!! americans are the most violent people I’ve ever known, you are always into war with some country. And you say mexicans are violent?? Jesus!!
May 22nd, 2008 at 1:36 pm
wow pinatas are a fun item they should not be used for violence!
May 24th, 2008 at 11:27 am
Wow,
Oh my god I am so sorry……
I cant understand why you would let your daughter sleep with a stick she could have pocked her eye out.
Dont blame the pinata because someone forgot to teach their daughter that violence againts people,animals ect. is wrong
I was wacked in the leg once by a kid hitting the pinata do you want to know why because her parents but a blindfold over her face. A person depth perception is lost in darkness.
I didnt blame the pinata,I didnt blame the child,I was upset with the parents for not thinking about the what might happen with the blindfold on,and letting her run all over the place trying to find the pinata go left no go right.Thats foolish.
I understand that what happend to you was horrible,but breaking a pinata is all in good fun I have broken a few,and I am going to have a pinata at my daughters first birthday in July.
The pinata is for the guests I am putting party favors in the pinata,to be honest I think I will have a pinata to complement the theme of every party she will have untill the day she thinks she is to old for a pinata.
By the way stranger who was the one responisble for teaching their white daughter the differance between right and wrong,I know who its her white parents. So in this case this white on white crime.
You cant blame sun because a person has skin cancer you blame the idividual for not putting on sun screen
May 28th, 2008 at 12:00 am
I never said Mexicans have no values. Go back and read what I actually wrote. Many Mexicans have great values, I’m sure. I also agree that America has a violent culture (although I would argue that the level of violence in the middle east or africa is far worse than here.) I simply don’t want to import even more violence, and violence inducing activities like piñatas.
May 28th, 2008 at 12:00 am
And I’m not a mother, I’m a father. Ron = a guy name.
June 2nd, 2008 at 8:07 am
Really? Pinata violence. I have seen pinatas and been to parties with pinats since I could barely walk and I have never seen any act of violence come from it. They are no more dangerous than playing baseball or riding a bike. Sure some incidents occur and accidents are never a good thing but I am certain there are more dangerous things out in society today we should be focusing on instead of pinatas. And why would anyone say giving a kid a pinata is like giving them a gun? That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard, The creator of this website is an idiot.
June 10th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
All I can say as a licensed therapist is…..I will NEVER want for clients…..geez….equating pinatas to GUNS? What? Perhaps we should focus on the REAL problems children and families are facing….and guess what…..it’s NOT pinatas.
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:19 pm
“Statistic after statistic has shown that when you remove guns from an environment, violence, and deaths, go down. ”
Except in Great Britain. Where violence and crime (including firearms crime!) went up after firearms were banned.
Except in Washington DC, where the murder rate remained constant after firearms were banned while the murder rate in other areas of the US that allowed concealed carry declined.
July 6th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
OMG! U PPL ARE ALL STOOPIDZ!
1. Pinnatta? s ARE NOT dangerous! The stick is.
2. NO! Not down with pinnatas, i thing we sould use little rocks!
3. HOW THE HECK DO U KNOW HOW TO SPELL ?pinnatta?
4. I found this on the pets or food websit, thats a hoax, of corse, this IS a hoaks!
July 21st, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Ron you clearly live a nice suburban neighbor hood with “Crime Watch” signs on every corner and attended only formal weddings where no children are invited. I am a proud Mexican American whom is very familiar with my Hispanic heritage and the wellbeing of Mexico and I can assure you that the drug cartels of America wouldn’t survive if it wasn’t for the group of teenagers that hang out at your neighbors house on their skateboards. Pintatas are not the root of evil, ignorant people with to much time on their hands and a computer are the cause for Americas downward spiral.
July 29th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
If you look at the fact of the matter, pinatas are inanimate objects. Any harm, physical or psychological, that results from the use of pinatas is purely the fault of the user. How many people fall down the stairs a year, or get hurt sledding? What are we going to do, get rid of the stairs? Stop sledding? As for the ‘My daughter thought I was a pinata’ comment, the pinata didnt come to life and persuade her to beat you. If your kid cant tell the difference between people and papier mache figures, pinatas may not be you only problem…
July 30th, 2008 at 9:49 am
Mr. Salazar - what’s wrong with “crime watch” anyway? Is it wrong to want to protect our property and families from the criminal element. I am a proud member of my neighborhood watch and have personally prevented several attempts at “jockeyboxing” in our neighborhood and am proud of that accomplishment.
July 30th, 2008 at 9:54 am
Athena - there is an established tradition of preventative action in this country. If a bridge is out, do we not say anything about it and blame the car for driving over it? Do we not warn people that drinking chlorine is bad for you? Or that watching pornography warps young minds? Guns, poison and knives are all inanimate objects and we routinely keep them out of the hands of minors.
You miss the point entirely. Piñatas are dangerous. I warn people about that fact. And yes, I think they should be banned. I also think most guns should be banned. Even if you ascribe to the “guns don’t kill people, people kill people” notion, people kill people WITH GUNS and if you take away guns, it is a lot harder to kill people. So if people hurt people because of piñatas, it seems reasonable to take away piñatas.
August 7th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
Piñatas are not a danger to our children. A lack of a proper education about safety is.
Frasier and Clarke never once shot themselves, me or a neighbor because I informed them properly of the effects of the importance of safety.
Same should go when you hand your child a baseball bat (the real criminal using your logic!).
Outlawing piñatas will do nothing but make a black market for them.
Now teach your daughter that a bat can hurt, instead of crying on the internet that a piece of papier-mâché took your life away.
You will only take my piñatas from my cold, dead hands!
August 29th, 2008 at 7:37 am
It just dawned on me… you must be unemployed… otherwise, who has the time to sit and respond to people arguing over a stupid parent getting hit in the face with a stick? It’s your fault, suck it up and get a job mister. Tell Crime Watch the colored folks said ‘hi and we’ll see you soon’! I’ve got better things to blog about! LOL!
September 11th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
I have a cofession to make, for three strait years i have bought pinatas in bulk from a local retailer, and locked them in a closet together. Each day i would take out one pinata and brutally beat the poor thing like a rented mule. After this i would savagely devour its sweet sweet entrails. It got pretty bad, it got to teh point where i was hireing mexican day laborers to abuse those paper mache misfits, sometimes i would just sit and watch for pleasure as the mexican bats and sticks would rain down hot fury on the pinatas. I have since then gone to councling and many hours of therapy at the local Pinata Violence Counciling Facility in my town. I havent hurt a pinata since. I now actually keep three beautiful pinatas as my companions and we are very happy together pinata violence free
September 22nd, 2008 at 1:54 pm
For the past 3 days I have been hand-making my daughter’s first pinata for her 3rd birthday. This is because A. I couldn’t find a butterfly one, and B. The one’s at the store aren’t legit papier-mache` pinatas, they are cardboard and much to hard to break.
The point is I’m so tired, my back hurts, going into labor wasn’t this lenghty of a process, but this pinata is almost done and its beautiful, it is detailed with the crepe paper I fringed myself. In fact I don’t WANT it to be broken anymore. I like it as much as I used to like my stuffed animals when I was a kid. It doesn’t sit well with me that this 3 foot butterfly I will have made in 5 days will be ruined in 5 minutes.
I’m seriously considering converting it into a pullina and giving it to my daughter as permanent decor in her room.
Most of her guests are boys and hubby says they will be upset if I don’t let them break it.
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Hi Dezi, I can’t think of a better gift for your daughter than giving her a beautiful piñata that you made yourself.
And the boys will only be upset if they know they were going to get to break it in the first place! There are a few good alternatives here on the site, like candy runs, that you could do instead. I’d love to see a picture!
October 7th, 2008 at 10:15 am
My mom got attacked by a pinata! It is now in county jail. I will be there to his sentencing. Gah! Damn piñatas! They always attack your loved ones! Beware oooh, scary. They come alive at night, and prey on four year olds!
Beware PiñataS Beware!!! BEWARE!!!!
October 27th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Pinatas are bad… pirates at pinata parties are worse. They don’t use bats; they use SWORDS! Talk about a papery, sugar filled blood bath!!
I pulled a muscle at the last pinata party laughing after watching a pirate level a group of kids with his sword… it’s dangerous! My muscles still hurt!
This will be my only warning: watch for pirates at pinata parties.
November 13th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
Guns don’t kill people, people kill people. Guns kill people like forks made Rosie O’ Donnel fat.
November 20th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
You like to talk about America picking up bad morals from Mexico, maybe you should blame us for MMA. W e started it with our fake wrestling and US made it into mixed martial arts with real physicality. Lets also blame us for Satanic worship, were a huge culture of celebratin christianity and I guess we opened one too many doors for doctrines that led to the expansion of satanic worship in America. We love tequila, so lets blame us for the creation of beer so our youths can have something to drink and thats why theres alcohol related deaths in america– Lets put a blame on America- In all it sounds like there were ideas that you took too far. This post is as rediculous as this website and should be posted here. Instead of fighting about pinatas- why dont you do something everyone would get out of and Have a safety Guideline website On How to safely use them with a surgeon general warning of caution. Then those who come to this website and argue with you cant because your trying to help instead of anoy. If someone really wanted too, they wouldnt need a gun to kill someone, any smart person can figure out a way, just like any smart person can figure out a way to teach a child the safety of dealing with Pinatas. You sound like a bright guy- You should also start a website about religion and politics- Im sure youll get just as many people agreeing with you as you did on this site.
I do blame you for wasting the time ill never get back from writing this stupid message, I bet youve told yourself the same for the website.