Coin throwing --- Eight arrests after football game
Arizona Coin Collector
On the story below.
I have been reading about sports fans
throwing coins at players, fans, and
game officials for some time now. I
just don't understand why you would
throw your money away. You would
think that in a recession, every coin
counts.
The basic formula for "instant asshole"
is still the same for some people.
"Just add alcohol"!
I have not seen this in the United States
yet.
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FROM:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_midlands/7837115.stm
Page last updated at 09:29 GMT
Monday, 19 January 2009
Eight arrests after football game
Eight people were arrested after scuffles broke
out inside and outside Birmingham's football
ground following a Championship match on Saturday.
Police said a number of stewards were injured
following the game between Birmingham City and
Cardiff City.
Seats were also damaged inside the St Andrews
ground and coins thrown at officers, West
Midlands Police said.
Three of the people arrested for public order
offences came from South Wales while five were
from Birmingham.
Two people were bailed pending further enquiries,
four were fined and one was reprimanded.
A 28-year-old was charged with being drunk inside
a football ground and was bailed to appear before
Birmingham Magistrates' Court on 26 January.
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Mr. Jaggers
> Hello
>
> On the story below.
>
> I have been reading about sports fans
> throwing coins at players, fans, and
> game officials for some time now. I
> just don't understand why you would
> throw your money away. You would
> think that in a recession, every coin
> counts.
>
> The basic formula for "instant asshole"
> is still the same for some people.
>
> "Just add alcohol"!
>
> I have not seen this in the United States
> yet.
Despite the economic situation, I predict that you will continue to find
cents and likely even nickels still strewn about on the ground, left there
with disdain by the people who dropped them, and waiting for people like you
and me to bend down and pick them up. Alcohol may very well be the
lubricant that causes coins to fly out of fans' hands toward the players,
but not the cause of coins ending up on streets and sidewalks. And I'll
leave it to your imagination as to why ballpark beer vendors serve their
wares in paper cups rather than in unopened cans.
James
PC
"Mr. Jaggers" <lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com> wrote in message
news:gl25p...@enews2.newsguy.com...
> And I'll leave it to your imagination as to why ballpark beer vendors
> serve their wares in paper cups rather than in unopened cans.
>
They have plastic bottles now, too. I remember an old football game from
the 80s where a kicker was just about to kick the winning field goal and he
was hammered with snowballs. I think it was either at Giants Stadium or the
Dawg Pound in Cleveland.
oly
>
> - Show quoted text -
Hey, down in Brazil in the secondary leagues in the provinces, the
crowd often urinates into plastic bags and throw them on the field
when somebody plays "football" badly. That's why the lower tier of
the stadium are often empty! Thrown coins are bad, but much nicer
than certain other things that could be done.
oly
Mr. Jaggers
Ah yes, good ole sportsmanship. Do the Boy Scouts still teach that?
James
stonej
yet."
The coin throwing is a European soccer thing at the present time,
part of the "hooligan" culture surrounding the sport. It has gotten
out of hand in the past few years and the soccer leagues are treating
it as a serious problem with criminal charges being filed and some
people banned from the stadiums.
Dave Allured
Another reason not to bring back the half dollar... ;-)
--Dave
stonej
A referee was hit in the head with a glass bottle a few years ago
during an NFL game,
I suspect it had been smuggled into the game. I don't recall if they
ever caught the person
who threw it.