Trigger happy umpire leads to overturned forfeit

[NCASAUmp]

I never thought I would see this happen. I got a call last week from my assigner, telling me to go easy on my first game scheduled for last night. Confused, I asked why. He simply tells me that it's a resumed game, and that they're a little upset with the umpire from last week. I do my best Bull Shannon impression ("Oooooookay") and show up to the field last night.

So I arrive to the field and ask "so, where are we in the game?" I get the low-down: top of 1st, 2 outs, runner on 1B, 1-1 count on batter. "Game called this early? That's odd..." I asked them why the game had been called. There was no rain Thursday. I get the following response from the captain of the team not at fault:

Batter had been called out for stepping out of the box. Batter did not agree with the call, and referred to it as "pi$$-poor umpiring." Batter gets tossed out of the game. The tossed player leaves the dugout and goes to talk with one of the local rec supervisors on the opposite side of the tower (4 diamonds in a pinwheel configuration with a scoretower at the center). He's completely out of sight, and is not causing any troubles. PU spots him and immediately declares a forfeit. Teams go ballistic. Some players even chase him to the parking lot.

Long story short, the municipality, frustrated with this umpire pulling the usual BS to get out of calling games, decides to overturn the forfeit and resume the game from the point at which it was stopped.

This is the same umpire from this thread. While he was right in the strictest letter of the rule book, he's a prime candidate for OOO of the Year Award.

Fortunately, the team that initially won due to the forfeit ended up winning anyway, and everyone was happy.