Worst thing you ever saw happen in a game?

[Mark Padgett]

With the season winding down, we have fewer "rules posts" so I thought I'd start this thread. At our season ending pizza party last week, one of the guys asked some of us what was the worst thing we ever saw happen at a game. I told him that about 10 years ago at an 8th grade boys rec game, a coach slapped a player right across the face as the player came to his bench!

Apparently, the player was the coach's son and the coach was upset that the kid wasn't listening to his instructions out on the court. Obviously, I tossed the guy immediately. He protested, saying it was his son (as if that made it OK). I told him I didn't care if it was his great-grandfather, any physical violence against any player would not be tolerated regardless of the situation. I reported it to our Board and they kicked him out for the season (3 more games). Since this was his youngest kid, he wasn't going to coach anymore so we didn't have to deal with upcoming years (I'm sure we would have suspended him permanently).

When this happened, there was about two minutes to go in the game and the kid sat on the bench for that time. When the game was over, I made sure another parent on that team took him out with the promise that if the dad wasn't outside, they would take him home. I don't know what happened after that. I do know his mom wasn't at the game.

Anybody have anything like this happen at one of your games?