They Never Tasered Morgana

The Kissing Bandit was a lot of woman. I'll never forget a Saturday afternoon Game of the Week I was watching. The camera panned to her walking through the crowd and Garagiola and Kubek were so dumbfounded that they couldn't talk. The only thing Garagiola could muster was something like "I don't believe that."

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Originally posted by MTH:
The Kissing Bandit was a lot of woman. I'll never forget a Saturday afternoon Game of the Week I was watching. The camera panned to her walking through the crowd and Garagiola and Kubek were so dumbfounded that they couldn't talk. The only thing Garagiola could muster was something like "I don't believe that."

She was a heap of a woman by golly!

In the day and age of Morgana the Kissing Bandit fans running on the field was considered a harmless nuisance. Look at all the photos of fans on the field when game winning hits are made. Fans used to storm the field when a pennant was won.

We live in a different era now where anyone coming out of the stands is considered a possible threat to the players. A few years ago I was standing on the court at the Wacovia Center (Sixers/Flyers). I looked up at the stands and thought how intimidating it would be to be a player and have fans pouring out of the stands at you.

From Yahoo Sports .... "But this doofus in Philly was running on the field, being a nuisance like 17-year-olds can be. Shane Victorino was never in danger. Nobody was."

This is easy to determine after the fact. But how about in the moment? Stay off the field and there isn't an issue.

One thing is for sure the next person that thinks about doing something like this will have second thoughts. And if they dont that should be enough cause to view them as a threat.

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Originally posted by Coach_May:
One thing is for sure the next person that thinks about doing something like this will have second thoughts. And if they dont that should be enough cause to view them as a threat.

It happened again tonight. The person wasn't tasered.

Was it in Philly?

Same place.

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Originally posted by biggerpapi:
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Score one for the Philadelphia Police Department. Way to go!!!

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http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/bl...-runn?urn=mlb,238457

Is this Everybody Doesn't Love Raymond? The kid looks like he could be Ray Romano's kid.

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Was it in Philly?

I'm thinking it was before Yadier Molina hit in the 9th too. Last night it was before his at-bat in the 8th inning I believe...

Morganna turned into a publicity stunt in her own right. She was an authorized 'unauthorized' person on the field.

I am all for tazing these clowns when they run on the field. These days you have no idea what some loser is going to do on the field if given a chance. Look at what happened to Monica Seles in 1993. If that can happen then it can happen now.

Many will come on the field now with lawyer in tow.

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"They Never Tasered Morgana"

Oh yes they did!

And the result was historic...

..."oh the enormity!"




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Good, two guys will be tazed then.

Not much of a pier to stand on. He is trespassing, disturbing the peace and fleeing an officer. Who knows honestly what is on his mind. The officer was well within his right IMHO taking the fool down.

Umm.. taser trespassers? I think there is a reasonable-force issue here.

Trespassing in and of itself, no.

But he ran from police, interupted a game in progress and as I said, who knows what this guys plans are.

We aren't talking about shooting the fool, we are talking about non lethal force to take someone down. Is it pleasant? Nope, been tazed, didn't like it one bit but it is less potentially harmful for both the police officer and the perp than gang tackling him.

I can see the lawsuit there for some kind of Milton Bradley injury that resulted from a take down.

I will show my age by asking who else remembers Mike Curtis of the old Baltimore Colts taking down a trespasser who thought it would be fun to disrupt an NFL game back in the 60's. I don't remember another episode like that. Lesson learned for a lot of would-be egotists.

If that clown is still alive today, I bet he still feels that hit, and wishes he'd been tasered instead.

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"Just tase me bro!"

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Life is about style, form, focus, grace, intensity, and your 15 minutes of fame. This picture says all that. This Philly bicycle cop should be awarded a gold plated bike bell as he exemplified the universal police creed to "always gets his man"

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You're right rz...that is a great picture. The composition is perfect!




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I found the State Farm (Auto, Home, Health, Life) Insurance logo in the background perfectly ironic and the touch of a marketing genius.

I wonder which local State Farm agent set this whole thing up

This was clearly a brilliantly staged publicity stunt to introduce Paul Blart II.

Too bad they couldn't get Kevin James back. Or a bigger sponsor than State Farm.

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Originally posted by No one of consequence:
I will show my age by asking who else remembers Mike Curtis of the old Baltimore Colts taking down a trespasser who thought it would be fun to disrupt an NFL game back in the 60's. I don't remember another episode like that. Lesson learned for a lot of would-be egotists.

If that clown is still alive today, I bet he still feels that hit, and wishes he'd been tasered instead.

Every time I see a player run on hte field I think of Mike Curtis. Curtis put a forearm shiver on the fan has he ran up to scoop the ball. Laid him out cold.

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Originally posted by Bum:
Umm.. taser trespassers? I think there is a reasonable-force issue here.

Last night's fan was not tasered. The Phillies want to investigate the reasonable force issues before tasers are used again.

Here's to the parents. The media has been calling from all over the country. They won't let their kid talk to the media and have his fifteen minutes of fame. The parents don't want their son to believe anything about his behavior will result in a positive.