Charles Burgess, 32, from Dayton, Ohio, was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly throwing an object at the Dallas Wings v New York Liberty game on 5 August, New York police said. The object hit a 12-year-old girl, and Burgess was charged with two counts of assault. It wasn’t immediately clear whether Burgess had an attorney.
A grown-ass man acting like a teenager doing a senior prank, presumably because he wanted to look cool in front of the other misogynist dipshits who think a woman’s value is tied to their sexuality, is peak 2025.
I hope they throw the book at him as hard as he threw the dildo at that girl 😡
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The NBA should hand out lifetime bans for any ‘fans’ who pull this crap at WNBA games.
Or Ticketmaster blacklist them… That would probably be much worse haha
I think this would put an end to it.
Absolutely! It would never occur to anyone to have a friend buy the tickets instead.
From all sports and events, not just the NBA/WNBA.
Idk if they stick or not but they should grill him with sexual harassment charges and make an example of him, this behavior needs to stop. No plea deal that drops those charges either.
Would be nice. And then national coverage showing that POS as a registered xex offender.
Worse yet, register them as a Xexex offender.
So what about all the stuff that is shown to the public at Pride parades?
Seems like a slippery slope imo
Edit: I’ll be extremely clear, if you cheapen what sexual harassment means, it opens the door for bad actors to use it against things you probably don’t want to get labeled sexual harassment.
Im pretty certain theres a big enough difference between a parade celebrating a sexual identity and a basketball game. Besides they’re already criminalizing the LGBT community, it’s not like that box hasn’t been opened, so the least we can do is prevent children at basketball games from getting hit with sex toys to hype up a scam currency.
Yes the difference is there. But if you’re giving a special significance to the dildo, be prepared for the jurisprudence to be twisted into something you really much don’t want.
Maybe don’t label it sexual harassment is all I’m saying.
Let’s not believe every hyperbole we read on the Internet
Easy one for ya.
Shown is not the same word as thrown
Ah yes that’s why if someone flashes you on the street it’s not sexual harassment.
Thanks for replying and solidifying my user note of ‘Pretends to be stupid for fun. Avoid.’
Bye.
I’m literally not you’re just refusing to see my point.
Bye 👋
Media reports on the disturbances have tied the toy-throwings to a group involved in a related cryptocurrency meme coin.
There was a time when this would have surprised me. Not anymore
Neat, sounds to me like this was a crime for the benefit of a gang and everyone even tangentially involved should have all their assets seized and get imprisoned for things members of their group did whether they were directly involved or not
Yes, a crypto group has claimed credit for the fad trying to promote a meme coin. Talk about absolute dirt bags.
Seems like a somewhat valid use for RICO, moreso that what it’s usually used for…
Charles Burgess, 32, from Dayton, Ohio, was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly throwing an object at the Dallas Wings v New York Liberty game on 5 August, New York police said. The object hit a 12-year-old girl
Idiot.
There should only be legal charges if a heavy object hits someone else, like in this case.
For the rest, lifetime banning from all future major league sports games, basketball, football, baseball, etc. would probably be enough to end the stupid trend.
If that doesn’t do it, then like someone else mentioned, blacklisted at Ticketmaster would be enough.
I don’t think calling the cops is needed unless there’s physical abuse.
If someone throws a dildo at a basketball game in New York in 2025, how are they going to be banned from a baseball game in California in 2035? Will they somehow be flagged when they try to buy a ticket online? Will they be stopped at the gate when some security guard recognizes them from being banned 10 years ago on the other side of the country? Do we need a new government agency to track professional sports dildo throwers? Or perhaps a Federal Dildo Throwing Registry?
A massive expansion of government oversight is called for here. There should also be a comprehensive investigation into dildos, dongs, and dong-like devices, with a path to prohibition of any long cylindrically shaped items.
You make a good point.
I think the person you were replying to was also making good points.
Maybe there’s a way to pull this off without being overly intrusive or heavy handed.
If you get arrested or otherwise removed from a game, your ID should be scanned and uploaded to a vendor database that could be used league wide at ticket booths and concessions.
Paying online with a credit card for your next game tickets? Perhaps a flag triggers because your name and zip code was flagged. Going to a game across the country? Perhaps you go buy a beer, and when the vendor scans your ID, the red flag comes up and you get escorted out of the place.
Not having a beer, or something that requires getting ID’ed??? Perhaps you’ve found the vulnerability in my system but also, maybe you’re not drunk now, so less likely to throw dildos.
It’s not perfect.
National Association of Dildo Sports (the NADS) will have to provide rules, regulations, and strap on a structure for competition and records.
Obviously, there will be a ring toss event.
Presumably WNBA has some VMS with facial recognition, they would register the person and flag them for alarm/ notify staff to card them.
Or just don’t be an idiot and throw objects in crowded public places?
Facepalm. Now the girl would become gay and die from the covfefe-inducing vaccine!!!
That is just pathetic.
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They should take it as a huge honor since the last dildo throwing fad was directed at Tom Brady, arguably the greatest athlete to dominate their sport in the history of sports. These dildos must be paying homage to the WNBA greats. /s
When’s the give send go campaign?
Dude looks the part. Big time loser energy.
That’s pretty funny, but the title makes it seem like he specifically targeted the girl.
It looks more like he threw it as a prank for the athletes, and it just so happened to hit a young girl.
No it’s pretty obvious that he wasn’t targeting the girl, we’re not saying he should be charged with various flavors of battery and sexual assault because we thought he meant it to hit her. And calling it just “a prank for the athletes” can fuck all the way off.
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I know, right? It’s just like when people bring fleshlights to throw at NBA games because it’s a totally normal and not weird thing to do.
It’d be hilarious if people responded by doing that.
If you’re 10 years old, sure. Peak comedy.
Humor is subjective.
I’m sure you’d laugh at a lot of things that I’d consider childish and not funny.
It would probably put an end to the shenanigans quicker. Society seems to respond to shit when it starts to affect men (especially, rich) too, a little more promptly.
It doesn’t make it sound like he targeted the girl, it sounds like he was another idiot who thought he was the main character and wanted to mock women athletes.
He threw it to be an asshole. Pranks make everyone laugh.
Pranks make everyone laugh.
That’s most certainly not true.
Then it’s not a prank. It’s Being an assshole
Only reason people say otherwise is self appeasement or bad parents.
Not really, but believe whatever you want.
“Everyone laughing” is an unreachable metric.
No. I believe in facts. Fact is some one being an asshole, is an asshole, no matter what term you’d give them to hide under.
So. Again. He was being an asshole, not playing a prank.
Ok, buddy.
There’s not a single prank that everyone will laugh at, but keep believing what you want.
Sorry, just to drive the point further home: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practical_joke
No mention of laughter even being a factor. You can edit the article if you’d like to change that.
Also, this is a really good fucking prank:
Thus most practical jokes are affectionate gestures of humour and designed to encourage laughter.
So your issue is parentage then.
And if you act cruelly to one person simply so you and perchance another bystander can laugh at them, then I’d say you’re just proving the point, and you hang out with shitty people.
Is it? Or maybe you’re an asshole too…
Are you really this stupid or are you pretending? The point being made is that everyone INVOLVED IN THE PRANK should be laughing for it to be a prank. Try using your fucking head for three seconds.
