Line Judge horror stories

[BuggBob]

The Line judges were Varsity boys football players. The entire team arrived from the practice field about two minutes before game time, stomp into the stands. The head football coach (who is also the AD) then directs two boys to do lines and the rest the pay attention and support the girls. Not these boys just got off the practice field and were covered in mud and grass, which is falling off onto the court -- BIG chunks of mud! During time outs the line judges would shoot baskets with the volleyball. The baskets were folded up out of the way, but that did not prevent the line judges and several other boys from the stands from starting a game of "horse". The line judges' judgment was clearly biased in favor of their team, except if the home player was an ex-girlfriend.

[OmniSpiker]

I've got so much horror stories, volleyball can overtake Halloween for horror..

The R1 didn't see it.
The R2 didn't see it.
Neither of the line judges saw it.

So after a few moments lapses...

R2 calls ball in. As was in the case, the R2 blocked the view of the line judge but was standin in the opposite side of the standard.
Line Judge calls ball out.

R1 then goes with Line Judge's call.

Okay, we just make up in and out calls from this point. The whole time seemed like the entire helpful parents were all calling in, in, in.

[OmniSpiker]

How about the time where the served ball was going close, close, close to the line judge...who then proceeded to stick her foot in abouts over the court to make contact with the ball...Everybody was yelling In, Out...I was yelling Replay! R1 then proceeds to call the ball Out...

Is it too hard to get a simple replay?

[OmniSpiker]

These line judges stood in the service area...R1 calls for service. Low and behold, the server bops one in the back of the head.... What do they do move a few steps away out of the service area and then line judge from that position...Why can't they just switch over to the other corners????

[jkumpire]

My first year of VB I was doing a JV/Varsity match. Big crowd, lots of people. I am up in the JV game. Parents are the LJ's, everything is fine. Then one of the LJ's call a ball down, which I totally agreed with. Some ying yang in the crowd goes off. No big deal.

Well this guy doesn't shut up, and my LJ i sstarting to get upset. So i tunred around and said: "Buddy you got two choices, either shut up and sit, or you will be ejected. Your choice." He of course, chose option 3, and I ran his rear end.

Three points later, we have a TO, the LJ comes over, and says: "Thanks for throwing that guy out. He's a parent of one of the kids playing on the team, and all he does is yell at his kid, the coaches, and even other team parents. "

So I threw a player's dad out at a home match for his kid, for yelling at another player's parent.