He did sit down. He was telling the lady to sit down the whole time, and then he sat down, and the old man decided he wanted to start something.
All three of them have been banned from the US Open through 2012. The old man and woman should get lifetime bans.
If you EVER lay your hands on someone, your age/gender/size doesn't matter anymore. You started it, prepare for the other person to end it, because they have every right in the world to defend themselves physically.
Somewhat similar to the Amber Lamps situation, in which a person attempts to attack someone who has sat down and attempted to put the situation in the past. It's a horribly cowardly thing to do to attack someone who's in a sitting position and thus has no leverage to defend themselves. Funny that in both cases, the respective party got beat down.
I think if that happened on the street (somewhere where there are more space for fighting), people are gonna bum rush that guy just because he was up against a physically abusive woman and a man who thinks just because he is old, he has the right to assault someone.
Such is the reality that when women, seniors or disabled people become physical with someone who looks stronger than them, people will always side on the "weaker" party until they realize who was really at fault.
1. was wrong for slapping regardless of cir stance. If she has a problem with him and after she requested for him to do whatever she did and it escalates, get security.
2. He took a slap and did nothing back. Props to him.
3. Slap pretty much means he shouldn't get kicked out and she should.
4. Old dude should've realized his daughter (I believe she says it's her dad) was being a y woman and let the fight die.
5. Whoever the guy is saying "gettim outta here" should get his ass kicked.
that's my point. why waste his time going back and forth with her for 5 minutes? it could have been over 1.5 seconds if he would have said "you're right," even if she wasn't right. I've added years to my life by saying those words to idiots.
the deserves to be donkey punched
Young dude = 40
Slapping = love
Old man line judge = game, set, match
sons all women need to be beat. bottom line. slap em around here and there and they won't act out of line like that fat did.
^ yepp
Sons Tennis is a serious business. There are serious risks when you attend the U.S Open.....gotta be prepared.
It seemed like everyone was aggravated by him, so they may have heard him making noise during the points and that's what annoyed them. I don't know why everybody fixated on the random theory that they just took her side because she was a woman.
He could have just as easily been a loud, obnoxious rambling drunk (he did have a big spill on his shirt right from the beginning) and that couple was the only ones to confront him even though everyone else probably wanted to. Tbh I was seated to the loudest, most annoying, fat drunk during a Cowboys game last year who kept screaming vulgarities during the game at the players on the other team who could not possibly hear him from where we were sitting and rubbing his sweat on me as he got up and down and swayed around. A guy with kids told him to watch the language and it turned into a 20 minute fiasco. Took all I had to not knock the out of him.
http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/ten...ory?id=5531111Fans banned after tennis brawl
Three tennis fans involved in a brawl Thursday night have been banned from attending the U.S. Open through the 2012 event.
Banned from the grounds were Joseph Pedeville, a 27-year-old who was reportedly yelling obscenities which led to an altercation with 49-year-old Tracey Falco and her 75-year-old father Lawrence Burnett. The video of the fight, which included Falco slapping Pedeville and Burnett falling down several rows of seats, was a television and Internet sensation following the Thursday night altercation.
The fight broke out in the upper deck of Arthur Ashe Stadium during a match between Novak Djokovic and Philipp Petzschner. The two stopped playing for a time before order was restored.
The New York Post said it tracked down Burnett at his home in East Stroudsburg, Pa., on Friday, where he said: "I'm in a lot of pain. I was defending my daughter. The guy is a jerk." Following the altercation, the three fans were taken to a police station in Queens, where they were given trespass warnings. The ban through Sept. 30, 2012 came on Friday.
I think several people have acknowledged that he was probably being a loud, obnoxious drunk. IMO, that's exactly why you get up and find security. What did she accomplish in her conformation? Nothing - rather she and her father escalated matter by assaulting him.
I have never seen anyone confront an obnoxious drunk person with the situation being easily resolved. Did she really think he was going to say "yes ma'am, I'm so sorry!" if he's really that disruptive?
I love how everyone else just stands around instead of backing up the people telling the guy to be quiet. That woman is lucky she didn't get knocked unconscious. It seems like it would have been much much simpler to just get up, go to the nearest security guard and ask them to tell the guy to shut up.
This kind of confrontation was probably inevitable, as the tennis fans in New York have gotten progressively more obnoxious over the years, and there hasn't seemed to be much effort by Flushing Meadows to do anything about it.
CROFL... he was defending his fat cow daughter by attacking a guy who was sitting down in his seat?The New York Post said it tracked down Burnett at his home in East Stroudsburg, Pa., on Friday, where he said: "I'm in a lot of pain. I was defending my daughter. The guy is a jerk."
I don't really care about the rest of it, but there are few things more entertaining than watching New Yorkers argue.
Everyone should know this is what goes on at sporting events by now. Don't go if you don't want to hear " , , ". Some people are so ing sensitive and want to be captains of the moral police they wind up looking worse then the foul mouth they are trying to shut up. I hope I would have the will power not to knock that fat out after a slap like that. That guy deserves HUGE props for not popping her.
Can you imagine if this was not caught on tape? That old man and would have been giving keys to the city.
While I understand some foul language is going to be used many families still like to have a place where they can take and spend time with their kids without having to hear all the foul language. I've told some fan before to stop the foul language and he understood.
ty situation where most of the blame lies on the slow ass security and the stupidity of the two fat, ugly, and old people involved. Of course being a young asshat doesn't help either but if it takes more than a simple request for him to STFU, then call security.
If that young dude was at a MLB game or some he would've been tazed by security since it looks pretty bad to be the guy yelling and throwing old people around. Yeesh.
Take the family to Barney if one foul mouth fan will set you off or influence the kids in bad ways. Adults go to these events. Alcohol is sold at these venues. I think it's pretty safe to say the old man and were the real villians in this caper.
The young guy shouldn't get in trouble at all, he did absolutely nothing wrong. The old should have been arrested and charged with assault, because that's exactly what would happen if a man hit a woman who did nothing wrong.
Shut the up. It's not a "random theory". People always take the side of old people and women who run their mouth to younger men. It's not a "random theory", it's what happens all the time.
You can still take your kids to cracker jacks or the zoo last I checked. Heckling is a part of sports, if you don't want your kids around it, don't take your kids to sporting events.
Props to the guy for keeping his cool. Could have easily went another way
All of them are dumb. And everyone else in the stands were es.
"Now that was a situation."
Heckling's a part of sports but you'll get kicked out for being an obnoxious cussing asshat. Major sports want to be family friendly since thats where a ton of $$$ lies.
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