“King hits” and their outcomes are now becoming photo trophies for the ignorant and arrogant despite, at the very least, lifetime pain and suffering for the victim and their families or at worst turning off the life support machine in an intensive care ward.

The most disturbing recent outcomes include photographing an unconscious youth after being violently beaten and knocked unconscious. The “Trophy hunters” leader received a six month suspended sentence. But he still has the photo of his work.

King states that social civility is in rapid decline and it is becoming a race to the bottom due to ignorance and arrogance of individuals who disregard one of the most intricate objects in
the universe, the human brain.

The human brain is regarded as one of the most complex entities in our universe with 100 billion cells, each with 1,000 to 10,000 synapses, the neo cortex that makes roughly 100 trillion connections and contains 91.4 million metres of wiring.

King regards the human brain as “our own personal computer with a hard drive housing logic, memory, information storage, sight, sound and personal folders. When accidentally dropped on the floor the computer crashes.

It may work but is likely to become dysfunctional. If the computer is deliberately thrown in frustration or anger it is unlikely to recover”.

Our brains are surrounded by layers of Dura matter, fluid between 4 and 5 microns thick, that cushions our personal hard drive from impacting the inside of our skull preventing neuro trauma, brain damage, brain injury, head trauma, concussion, whatever you want to call it.

Memory, logic and reasoning problems are the most common deficits and no one fully recovers post neuro trauma. It doesn’t take much to injure the brain.

Catastrophic external head knocks such as Michael Schumacher’s skiing accident where his helmet hit a rock thrusting his brain into the inside of his skull causing his brain to bleed and
swelling to his brain put him in a coma. This was an accident.

Another such accident involved actor Liam Neeson’s wife Natasha Richardson who died in Lennox Hill Hospital, New York City from a catastrophic brain damage epidural hematoma
(blood bleed) 24 hours after a skiing fall at Mont Tremblant Resort Quebec Canada in 2011.

Accidents happen and they can be devastating. However, to deliberately hit a stranger in the street is cowardice if nothing else.

The brain doesn’t discriminate when it is injured. You will either die within hours, be in an induced coma for weeks or months or simply have the rest of your life destroyed by a complete moron who took offence to what you said, wore or looked like.

King’s research on the prevalence and incident rates of acquired and traumatic brain injury in most states in Australia over the past decade indicates an average of one hundred and
seventy sixty thousand two hundred new cases annually with New South Wales topping the chart at 69,400. Victoria follows with approximately 50,700, Queensland with 36,800 and
Western Australia with 19,300.




King believes it is a giant step in the right direction to highlight the severity of such outcomes with individuals dying on our streets after being assaulted.

“It is vitally important that we as a society refuse to condone such assaults as acceptable” he said.

Christian King is a sociologist, counsellor and principle of the Brain Injury Centre. In 2008 King created Australia’s first not for profit brain injury prevention foundation Think Ahead. No one cared enough to support it. There is no connection between Christian King and the phrase “King Hit”. Contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 0438 271 522
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