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- From: hunt7551@mach1.wlu.ca (len hunt 9208 U)
- Subject: Re: Fan on ice (was Re: Wrong puck in net?)
- References: <1993Jan19.202647.22022@pilot.dmg.ml.com> <1993Jan20.221109.336241@sue.cc.uregina.ca> <C17JJw.LG3@acsu.buffalo.edu>
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- Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:55:21 GMT
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- In article <C17JJw.LG3@acsu.buffalo.edu> hammerl@acsu.buffalo.edu (Valerie S. Hammerl) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan20.221109.336241@sue.cc.uregina.ca> VBHARGAVA@Meena.CC.URegina.CA (Bhargava, Vipin k) writes:
- >>In <1993Jan19.202647.22022@pilot.dmg.ml.com> persico@orestes.sysdev.dmg.ml.com writes:
- >
- >>> Not to be to sanctimonious but anyone interfering with any game should
- >>> be procesuted to the extent of the local law. The fan's place is in the
- >>> stands.
- >>>
- >>> Matthew O. Persico
- >
- >>Speaking of which, a couple of years ago (last year, perhaps?) a fan came
- >>out onto the ice in Quebec. The linesman went after him and gave him a
- >>good check (best one of the year! :-) ). I had heard there was a lawsuit
- >>pending. Is this true, and what was the outcome?
- >>
- >>Vip
- >
- >Unless Quebec fans are more unbalanced than the rest of North America,
- >I believe that the incident you recall was Quebec vs Buffalo, and that
- >the fan jumped the glass, landed in the Buffalo bench. Rob Ray then
- >set to punching the fan into oblivion (you could see the stars and
- >canaries just like in the Warner Bros. cartoons). The fan was
- >arrested. I'd heard he was going to sue, but decided not to because he
- >didn't belong on the ice in the first place and that pretty much took
- >all the merit out of his case. The incident occurred last season, the
- >fan was highly intoxicated, and jumped the boards on a dare. The
- >referee didn't do much but escort the fan off the ice to waiting
- >security officers, though.
- >
- >--
- >Valerie Hammerl John Sr. would lift Pat over the boards, grab
- >hammerl@acsu.buffalo.edu his hand, and start running around the outside,
- >V085PWPZ@UBVMS.CC.BUFFALO.EDU faster and faster. "I wanted to learn how to
- >get that feeling, and the only way was to learn how to skate." P. LaFontaine
-
- You may also be thinking of the fan in Boston not Quebec. The fan in Boston
- was knocked head first into the boards by the linesman (I forget his name)
- because the fan was running after the referee.
-
- Len Hunt
-