Ever Deal With Fans off-court? Do You Always Ignore On-Court?

[JoeTheRef]

Originally Posted by lmeadski

in a somewhat tight game kept on yelling "get the hair out of your eyes, ref!"
The scorers table kept on chuckling every time he'd yell it as I came over to report a foul.

I'm bald.

Now that's pretty funny.

Had one situation during a VG game. I'm in the "C" slot, with the coach near me, and we hear a fan yell "I'll be waiting for you in the parking lot ref" in a manner where I really couldn't tell if he was joking or not, or to which ref he was talking to. I hit my whistle and turned around at the same time the coach turns around, points to the fan and looks at the local sherrif's deputy and gives the head nod gesture towards to the fan and the fan was gone.. Apparently the fan was joking because when I initially looked up he was smiling and laughing. He didn't think it was funny when he was removed from the gym.