Wednesday, October 05, 2011

Dangerous to joke these days

We read:
"The Yankees suspended a long-time beer vendor for "harassing" Boston Red Sox pitcher Alfredo Aceves(notes) between games of a recent doubleheader at Yankee Stadium. As a result, Lazarus missed the first two games of the ALDS against the Detroit Tigers, costing himself anywhere from $400 to 600, along with some of his dignity.

Lazarus was standing with co-workers near a freight elevator on the terrace level when they heard the clacketty clack of cleats on the floor. They knew a player was coming and Lazarus recognized Aceves, who used to pitch for the Yankees. This is what Lazarus told the New York Post happened:

[Lazarus] walked over and playfully called out, "Hey, you got ID?"
Without missing a beat, Aceves grabbed his crotch and shot back, "I got your ID right here."

Everyone roared with laughter ... except for the team suits.

Lazarus, who has been vending since he was 19 — that's 35 years — was called to the carpet by a supervisor during the game. "He said, 'You were harassing the opposing team's player.'

"I said, 'Are you kidding?' "

Lazarus told the Post that his badge was taken and he was escorted from the stadium "like a common criminal."

Source

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

off topic but:

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/10/04/anti-semitic-incidents-in-calif-jump-8-percent-highest-in-us/

California has 8% increase in antisemitic attacks. Highest in the US. Buried as a local story. You know what that makes obvious, is that the perps are liberal darling group members. If attacks had gone up against blacks, hispanics, and muslims, and the perps had been white, this would be national headlines. They are burying this story for a reason. It would be embarrassing to liberals.

stinky said...

Somebody with a lotta "pull" had to be behind this, but is too cowardly - and therefore clearly aware that what they are doing is wrong - to come out and say so.

Anonymous said...

"Political correctness is a greater threat to our freedom and liberty than is terrorism..."

stinky said...

"Political correctness is a greater threat to our freedom and liberty than is terrorism..."

Both are expressions of the same basic narcissism.

This is is why terrorist and p.c. rhetoric is getting so hard to tell apart these days. Ostensibly, for ex, the various p.c. and Islamic terrorist groups are miles apart in their beliefs and should be natural enemies, but in practice neither one is really concerned with what they say they are concerned with; it's all about them and their egotistical self-image.

Anonymous said...

What panty waist sackless jerks. This just reenforces that I made the right decision to never watch baseball again after their strike in the 90s. Little frick'n girl sport.

Bird of Paradise said...

What ever became of FREE SPEECH dont they beleive in the constitution anymore?