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Couple of years ago I was doing a game between 2 rival schools. Gym is packed and play is intense. During the 3rd quarter, R has a Mom ejected that is sitting at half court for cussing him. The gym is a cracker box so fans are 3 feet from playing area. Couple of minutes later U2 has another fan removed for cussing a player. Administration get on mic and tells crowd that anymore comments towards officals or players will result in being removed from gym. All total so far refs 2 fans pointed out and asked to leave and admin has 2 of their own.
4th quarter starts out smooth and looks like rest of game will go by without anymore incidents. About midway through quarter we have a crash at bucket. R calls block and he nails call. Kid that foul was called on is on the floor hurt. Fan section behind home bench erupts and trash is being thrown on floor. One fan stands out from all the others. Its a Dad and he is calling us every cuss word you can think of. I motion for administration and point at the offensive parent. Administration ask if Im totally sure. I tell them I am 100% sure. So deputy is summoned and he also ask if Im sure. I reiterate that I am 100%.
Parent is escorted out of gym. Suppose to leave school property. Asst. coach for home team starts a tirade at us. He is ejected as well! During next dead ball I am standing next to home team bench and coach informs me that I just threw out the District attorney for that county and his son who was the asst. coach. Now picture starts to form as to why admin and Barney were hesitant to ask parent to leave. Game ends with no more incidents.
After game we are headed to locker room. Some how parent that I had ejected is standing at the entrance to our locker room. Deputy is escorting us so we assume he will make parent leave. We continue towards door while parent is giving me the stink eye. He refuses to leave and continues to block entrance to locker room. Barney starts to slink back up the steps. I tell Barney that if this guy isnt off school property that we are calling state police. Parent make a couple of remarks under his breath and leaves.
Now that we are in the safety of locker room. We start to unwind. All of a sudden a window is smashed and a face appears informing the R that he is getting an *** kickin when we reach parking lot. R has had enough, so he calls State Police. 10 minutes later. 3 state police vehicles arrive and clear school property after arresting 3 people. We are escorted out of county by state police.
3 weeks later we are at another school. Clock operator ask me if I had ejected anyone lately. I forgot about incident and say no. She then reminds me about incident. She tells me that she is the DA's secretary. She goes on to tell me that state admonished him and that his office personal are calling him Mr. T. Deputy was suspended and asst. coach was fired. Dad and son have a lifetime ban and cannot attend any high school sporting event in that district. Oh, and here is the best part. He went up for relection and didnt even receive the nomination for his party. Last I heard he was a public defender!
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