Ban Sports Bars!

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The police commissioner has called for a city law requiring bars to report fights to 911 following a fatal melee sparked by a spilled beer at a ballpark pub.

Three people have been charged in the attack on David Sale Jr., who was beaten and kicked to death Saturday near Citizens Bank Park during a Phillies baseball game. He was part of a group ejected from a sports bar for fighting.

"We need to know about it when it's taking place," Commissioner Charles Ramsey said. "Then we can get officers there to see that something truly breaks up before it escalates."

Sale, 22, of Lansdale, was with a bachelor party at McFadden's, a bar attached to the stadium, during the game against the St. Louis Cardinals. Sale or another member of his party bumped into someone from another group and spilled some beer, police said.

The two groups started fighting, and McFadden's security guards ejected both - about eight from the bachelor party and more than two dozen from the other group, which was affiliated with a bar in the city's Fishtown section.

The altercation continued in the streets and a nearby parking lot, where Sale had been pummeled and kicked unconscious by the time police arrived. He was pronounced dead at a hospital around 8 p.m.

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Thousands of lives could be saved if the USA would just ban any and all sports bars. And it would be even better if we banned all bars of any kind that serve alcoholic beverages. Thousands of lives would be saved! Please, support my efforts to ban all bars! ...esp in Missouri, where everyone carries an AK-47!

Baron Max

 

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Silly idea.
Ban sports, leave the drinks alone!

 

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hahaha... IF that's what society wants then fine. I hate watching sports on TV it's so so SOOOO fraking boring! Play sports = good, watching sports = boring. Why watch someone bonk when you can be the one bonking???

 

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LMFAOOOO Best Humor In The Forum, July, 29, 2009.

But seriously, ban sports bars? Why not ban sports instead, especially extreme sports, people could die from that. And while you're at it, ban tobacco, cars and driving, skydiving, guns, knives, you get the point.

 

I have already banned myself from sports bars.

 

Ban alcohol. Simple.

 

Because that worked so well last time it was tried.

 

Only show non violent sports. Tennis, Volleyball, swimming, horse racing, elephant racing, frog jumping, track and field events, skiing, and on and on. That way people won't get as excted when one or another wins the game or race.

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Um. It works just fine in the ME. What is it about the West where folk want to get fogged up? What are they running from?

 

Alternatively make it mandatory to carry AKs (or equivalents) if you want to go to a sports bar. With some luck it will cut down fistfights.

 

You're obviously not familiar with The Goodies then?
They had an entire episode devoted to the eradication of football fan violence (soccer football that is) by banning football.
By the end of the episode it devolved into pitched battles between fans of the Bolshoi Ballet and the (British) Royal Ballet Company or some such.
It's not the sport, and it's not the drink.
It's people.
Ban them and all the problems are solved...