Sport of dwarf tossing: A flying shame

Is it the right of all living human beings not to be picked up and thrown against their will? Golden Globe winner Peter Dinklage thinks so. He urged viewers to read up on 37-year-old British little person Martin Henderson as part of his acceptance speech for winning best supporting actor in a TV series for his work in Game of Thrones.

Henderson was smoking a cigarette outside a bar in Wincanton, England, on his birthday in October when he says he was grabbed by a hooded man and thrown. When he landed, he says he felt numbness in his legs, which has only worsened. Henderson, who acted in two of the Harry Potter movies and suffers from spinal stenosis, now needs assistance to walk and has been told he will need a wheelchair for longer joueys.

Why was he thrown? He says that the English Rugby World Cup team popularized the \"sport\" of dwarf tossing during a drunken night in New Zealand, after which England ruby star Mike Tindall was fined £25,000 and kicked out of the league's Elite Player Squad. Tindall is married to Zara Phillips, an equestrienne and daughter of Princess Anne who is 13th in succession for the British throne, and was caught on video apparently kissing another woman on the night in question.

People: life is hard enough as it is, for everyone. Don't do these things.

How responsible is Mike Tindall for the attack?