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Originally Posted by johnnyg08

I agree...but if they're going to do it, I'll take that option versus one straight to the mask, chest, collar bone, nuts, etc.

Certainly. They can throw at my shin guards all day.

[johnnyg08]

SPAMMER be gone.

[With_Two_Flakes]

Idiot spammer at that.

The removal company is in the UK and he is so clueless he doesnt realise this is a US officiating website. I am embarassed.......

[MSPChris]

haha i'm gonna bump this thread...

Here's my question for umpires that have been bumped -- where were the police? If I were ever bumped at a game (not accidentally touched, but bumped) I'd be on the phone instantly and I'd be pressing charges.

In many states bumping an official like what we're describing here is a felony.

Forget about what the league is going to do....

[Matt]

Originally Posted by MSPChris

haha i'm gonna bump this thread...

Here's my question for umpires that have been bumped -- where were the police? If I were ever bumped at a game (not accidentally touched, but bumped) I'd be on the phone instantly and I'd be pressing charges.

In many states bumping an official like what we're describing here is a felony.

Forget about what the league is going to do....

That's going to be a tall order in your neck of the woods.

[UMP25]

I agree. I also believe it is overreacting. I was bumped by a head coach 4 or 5 times in one game on April 2nd. I didn't get overly upset. I informed the coach it would cost him a suspension, wrote the requisite reports, submitted them to the proper people, and was done with it.

[Matt]

Originally Posted by UMP25

I agree. I also believe it is overreacting. I was bumped by a head coach 4 or 5 times in one game on April 2nd. I didn't get overly upset. I informed the coach it would cost him a suspension, wrote the requisite reports, submitted them to the proper people, and was done with it.

Don't tell him it will be a suspension. That's not your job nor your call (even if it is supposed to be automatic.)

Originally Posted by MSPChris

I will agree that calling the police might be an overreaction, but I gotta tell you there are plenty of cases where calling the cops is warranted.

Most of my games are for teenage kids. Some coach that decides he's going to put his hands on me during the course of a game (in anger) has no business dealing with kids, period.

Sometimes the league might do something sometimes they won't -- the truth is a lot of the time it depends on who the adult is and what the situation was. I've read plenty of threads where umpires get blackballed because the coach is a prick, but he's a well-placed prick.

The police don't care who the adult is, or what the situation is. What matters to the police is that Adult A assaulted Adult B.

If you're talking about a participant putting hands on you, that's a whole different ball of wax (legally.)

Bumping, OTOH, is not going to result in assault charges in MN, unless he's threatening you with harm, does it in such a manner that it is an attempt to cause harm, or someone is bored. There might be a citation for disorderly conduct out of it. I will bet a game fee on nothing more than that.