Football ref attacked on field

C_Felix said:
Texas is a state which has laws about game officials.
There's assault and battery battery, and then there's the higher crime of assault and battery on a sports official.

So, if soccer mom or hockey dad attacks a ref after the game, the punishment will be worse as opposed to just attacking someone in a road rage incident.
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Seriously? I get discriminated against because I'm not a sports official? That's utterly ludicrous.

I can see a higher crime for assaulting a law enforcement officer, or perhaps an active member of the military. Heck, I'd be inclined to extend it to garbage collectors. But sports officials?
 
fuelair said:
Or introduce footballs into their nether regions quickly!! I'm thinking a little fatback and a clown mallet.


ETA: and leave them on their own to figure out a way to remove them.
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Dood, help me deflate this football inside me!
What?
Help me deflate it!
How?
Hurry up!
What do I do?
I don't know. Put a nail on your thing and then love me!
 
arthwollipot said:
Seriously? I get discriminated against because I'm not a sports official? That's utterly ludicrous.

I can see a higher crime for assaulting a law enforcement officer, or perhaps an active member of the military. Heck, I'd be inclined to extend it to garbage collectors. But sports officials?
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Only as it pertains to the game they are officiating.
That's where the law applies. Not in everyday encounters.

Don't act stupid, we all know better...
 
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William Parcher said:
If I said that they'll be heroes to nobody I'd have to make that up too.
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You could perhaps wait until you see how people react. Just a thought.

Listen, tell you what. Show me evidence that people are just as bad as you say, and I will be happy to admit that you were right in this case. And until you see them behaving thus, perhaps hold your tongue.
 
phiwum said:
You could perhaps wait until you see how people react. Just a thought.

Listen, tell you what. Show me evidence that people are just as bad as you say, and I will be happy to admit that you were right in this case. And until you see them behaving thus, perhaps hold your tongue.
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Mommy, is that you talking to me?
 
arthwollipot said:
Seriously? I get discriminated against because I'm not a sports official? That's utterly ludicrous.

I can see a higher crime for assaulting a law enforcement officer, or perhaps an active member of the military. Heck, I'd be inclined to extend it to garbage collectors. But sports officials?
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As a longstanding Basketball Referee (I've been doing it for over 13 years) I'm all in favour of such laws. 3 times when refereeing junior games I've had parents threaten to kill me, and many more than that have threatened to bash me in the carpark. None have ever gone through with it, but there was one time one of the teams arranged an escort for me out of the stadium because the person threatening me seriously looked like they were willing to do it. I don't need that crap at my workplace. Needless to say all such abuse results in immediate ejection from the venue. And that's not even getting into players in adult leagues I referee. About half a dozen times a year, depending on which sort of competition I'm refereeing (Mixed and Womens games are usually far more relaxed) I'll have to eject a player from a venue, usually for violence toward an opponent or for abuse of various kinds, but on occasion also for making threats of violence to me (Thankfully, none have actually hit me, but I have seen a fellow ref get shoved by a player, he got a 10 year ban from all basketball in Victoria as a result).
 
Damien Evans said:
As a longstanding Basketball Referee (I've been doing it for over 13 years) I'm all in favour of such laws. 3 times when refereeing junior games I've had parents threaten to kill me, and many more than that have threatened to bash me in the carpark. None have ever gone through with it, but there was one time one of the teams arranged an escort for me out of the stadium because the person threatening me seriously looked like they were willing to do it.
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I understand that it probably happens more frequently because of the fact that you are a referee, but don't get why you think it should be a higher crime. Do you think it would have been any less of a crime if you hadn't been a referee and parents threatened to kill you or bash you in the carpark?
 
dudalb said:
Now the suspended students are saying the refs used racist language.
Forgive me for being a little skeptical about that.
When in doubt,play the Race Card.
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But even if the ref did use racist language, how the **** would that justify hitting him from behind? How stupid does one have to be to think that blindsiding a ref is ever appropriate?
 
William Parcher said:
Dood, help me deflate this football inside me!
What?
Help me deflate it!
How?
Hurry up!
What do I do?
I don't know. Put a nail on your thing and then love me!
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Who let you out of the bigfoot threads? You can take slot number 9.

:w2:
 
Ranb said:
I'm not aware of student ball players ever being charged with assault for actions on the playing field during a game. Anyone heard of any?
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Not during the game, but directly after it: in 2012, in the Netherlands, six youth players and a parent beat up an assistant referee, resulting in his death. In the ensuing public discussion about the case, it became clear that this "incident" was only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to violence against (assistant) referees.
 
rwguinn said:
Only as it pertains to the game they are officiating.
That's where the law applies. Not in everyday encounters.

Don't act stupid, we all know better...
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Well thank you for that vote of confidence in my acting ability. I have never heard of such a law, and I am glad that it only pertains to the game - though I'm still not entirely sure it's needed there either.

Damien Evans said:
As a longstanding Basketball Referee (I've been doing it for over 13 years) I'm all in favour of such laws. 3 times when refereeing junior games I've had parents threaten to kill me, and many more than that have threatened to bash me in the carpark. None have ever gone through with it, but there was one time one of the teams arranged an escort for me out of the stadium because the person threatening me seriously looked like they were willing to do it. I don't need that crap at my workplace. Needless to say all such abuse results in immediate ejection from the venue. And that's not even getting into players in adult leagues I referee. About half a dozen times a year, depending on which sort of competition I'm refereeing (Mixed and Womens games are usually far more relaxed) I'll have to eject a player from a venue, usually for violence toward an opponent or for abuse of various kinds, but on occasion also for making threats of violence to me (Thankfully, none have actually hit me, but I have seen a fellow ref get shoved by a player, he got a 10 year ban from all basketball in Victoria as a result).
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For a start, it still amazes me that people take a game that seriously. No seriously, it really does. What part of "it's a game" do these people not understand?

Secondly, what's wrong with regular ordinary assault laws? Someone bashes you, they are guilty of assault. That should be sufficient without needing a special class of assault specifically for sports officials. If a basketball ref gets bashed after a game, I don't see that as qualitatively different from someone getting bashed out the back of the pub. The same laws should apply.
 
GlennB said:
It's that simple. Not very different to climbing the umpire's chair in tennis and whacking them over the head with a racquet.
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But think about how much better baseball would be if the players and umpires dueled it out over every call?
 
sir drinks-a-lot said:
I understand that it probably happens more frequently because of the fact that you are a referee, but don't get why you think it should be a higher crime. Do you think it would have been any less of a crime if you hadn't been a referee and parents threatened to kill you or bash you in the carpark?
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They wouldn't have done it if I wasn't a ref.
 
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