Monica Seles, the tennis player...attacked by a fan during a match. Seriously wounded physically and scarred emotionally. I don't think she ever played tennis again after that.
I'm not saying this young man at the Phillies game would have attacked anyone. But how do we know? We don't. He exercised poor judgment and lacks personal responsibility -- does he deserve to get tasered for that? I don't think so, because, really, think of the number of people we all know who would qualify for being tasered.
However, if you are going to exercise your poor judgment and put your lack of personal responsibility on display at a major public event where security is instructed -- to the letter -- to protect not only the athletes but the other fans, then yes, I think you should be subdued and removed from the stadium.
And has anyone mentioned that the guy who was tasered was not the only incident at a Phillies game this year? Another fan ran out of in the field recently too. He was subdued without a taser and removed from the stadium.
It could be worse...we could have the crazy UK and European soccer fans. People kill each other at those games sometimes.
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Jake