I threw a fan out of a game earlier this year.
Following a tech on the visting coach, as I'm in transition to lead, this fan starts flinging F-bombs my way.
It's enough to "break my concentration". I try to ignore but
the insults and F-bombs keep coming. So I hit the whistle,
point to him and tell him to get out. He look back at me and says "are you serious? You can't throw me out!"
To which I reply "watch me!"
To make along story short, come to find out later that the visiting coach that I had "T'd" and subsequently tossed, was his Dad.
Now, my only regret in handling the situation was that I didn't go to the table and have management take care of it.
But at that the time, he pissed me off so bad, I just reacted.
I've been reffing for quite a while. In gyms with 10 people, and in buildings with thousands, and I have never
heard those things directly said to me.
I personally am tired of fans thinking they have free reign
to abuse officials as if it's part and parcel of having a ticket.
In fact I have gotten into a bad habit lately of talking back to fans that I feel are out of line. (notice I said BAD habit!)
A couple of weeks ago, my partner and I were standing together during a T-O when one of the fans started griping about one thing or another. We were discussing something else and started laughing. Well, this "genius" from the stands says "oh yeah, laugh it up." So now he has my ear!
A few seconds later I hear this fan say, "I'm gonna kick your a**! Now I can't just stand there. I walk over to him and say, "what did you say!?" to which he replies "what?"
So I mention that I heard him say "something" about kicking someones a**. Of course he denies it and claims he was talking to another fan. RIIGGGGHHTTT!
Game administration was over quite quickly and handled the situation.
Like I said, I know this is not recommended behavior, but I thought the stories were good nonetheless.
Drake