Copycats

You know, I'm willing to suffer someone acting like a jackass. I mean, we've all been there; something seems like a great idea in the moment, but after a couple hours or so of hindsight you realise that you were just a huge idiot. What I am not going to tolerate, however, is someone being an unoriginal jackass. The other day I mentioned the story of the kid who ran onto the field during the Phillies game Monday night and got himself tased. Now, it was a big story because he was the first fan to ever be tased on the field and it led to a fairly big debate in the world of sports over whether or not that was excessive on security's part. The kid's face was all over TV and the Internet, they interviewed his parents and he became famous for the day. Given today's world, I guess it shouldn't be all that surprising that Tuesday night another loser decided that he wanted a piece of that action.

A 34 year-old aspiring DJ tweeted his intentions and then hopped onto the field, actually hoping to get tased so he could add his name to the national debate. [Sidebar: there are certain careers you should no longer be 'aspiring' to when you hit 34. The list looks like this: DJ, bartender, bouncer or exotic dancer.] Instead, he was roundly booed (nicely handled, Philly fans), who immediately recognized the unoriginality of this idiot. Not to mention the Phillies were in a tight game in the ninth inning when this guy decided it was the best time for his little stunt. He could have cost the Phillies the game, which was all the rest of the people in the stadium cared about. It's still up for debate as to whether or not it's too harsh to tase someone who runs onto the field while a game is going on, but the last thing I would have thought was that it would lead to someone else wanting to get tased. I understand that there are people out there who want attention and don't really care how they get it, but still there has to be a better way to go about it. I can only hope that the rest of the city in which you live coming together to certify you as an asshole is more of a deterrent than a jolt of electricity.

-Speaking of people who may want to stop copying idiotic behavior, remember the video I posted last week where the soccer player went down as though he had been shot, only replay showed he was never touched? Well, I feel like this story should serve as a warning to any soccer players who want to flop like their more famous heroes. In a low-level league in Croatia, a man was playing and went down. The ref, fully convinced that the guy was guilty of flopping, went over to give him a yellow card. There was just a small issue of the guy being dead. Apparently he had suffered a heart attack and died on the spot. Also, the ref had already written him up for the yellow.