Posted on 10/24/2007 4:38:17 AM PDT by Pharmboy
A Long Island woman has been charged with hitting her daughter’s soccer coach with a folding chair because he gave her bad directions to a game, the police said yesterday. The woman, Alicia Vigil, 33, of East Rockaway, was arrested at her home on Monday and charged with reckless endangerment, the Nassau County police said. Ms. Vigil’s daughter plays for the Lynbrook/East Rockaway Soccer Club, Detective Frederick Goldman said. He said Ms. Vigil was upset about directions to Sewanhaka High School in Floral Park that the coach had e-mailed to her before Sunday’s game. She is charged with swinging a folding chair and hitting the coach in the face, the detective said. The coach, snip...declined medical attention, the police said.
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Geez, someone needs a Xanax!
Wondering if her past history caused this coach to “accidentally” give the wrong directions? In other news, I don’t ask coaches for driving directions. That’s what internet map services are for.
LOL!
More soccer hooligans.
Our high school website has links to all the schools we play and driving directions attached. I’ll bet that this was not this woman’s first brush with uncivil behavior...
geez - he got off easy for East Rockaway
Ban Soccer Moms! Impose a registration requirement and 10-day waiting period on folding chairs!
I will need to see the actual e-mail containing the directions to Sewanhaka in order to make a determination as to whether they were misleading enough to warrant a folding chair to the face.
(Note: I grew up in this area...so I am well qualified to make this ruling.)
Yeah...working class town with some tough folks. Know it well.
The attack marks the second instance of parent-on-coach violence in Nassau County in less than a week.
Cops said Alicia Vigil, 33, confronted the 68-year- old coach after her daughter's game at Sewanhaka HS in Elmont because she wasn't provided directions to the youth-club game via e-mail and had to get them from other parents.
Vigil's daughter is a member of the Lynbrook/East Rockaway Soccer Club, a youth program that fields both boys and girls squads from ages 4 through 19, according to a team official.
Police said Vigil and the coach were engaged in a heated verbal altercation when the man turned and began to walk away. Enraged, Vigil allegedly took a folding chair and hit him square in the face as shocked onlookers - including the young members of both teams - watched in horror.
The coach, who refused medical attention, suffered a busted lip and a cut cheek, according to police.
Cops said that as a parting shot, Vigil scratched a van she believed belonged to the coach.
Much more here:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/10242007/news/regionalnews/socker_mom_is_busted.htm
Ok, did he or did he not e-mail her the directions? The two report contradict each other. (How do you hit someone in the face when they’re walking away?)
OOOhhhhh, leh me guess - a bad case of PMS
(I know that always makes me attack soccer coaches)/s
I imagine this woman may be more trouble than she thinks, with maybe a visit from Child Protective Services perhaps? With a temper like that, it would not surprise me to see them get involved?
Vigil said she approached Schwarzman of East Rockaway after the game and asked why he stopped e-mailing her directions to visiting games. He responded with a torrent of curses, she said.
“He called me a (expletive) and criticized me for being a single mother,” she said. “I was so afraid. I was so scared that he was going to do something to me.”
Vigil said she just walked away with her daughter, who was on crutches.
In contrast, police and Schwarzman said Vigil, approached the coach and cursed him. “She came running across the field. She called me an American (expletive), an American (expletive),” Schwarzman said. He said he took her off the e-mail list because she e-mailed “nasty letters” about practices and other matters.
Schwarzman admitted he made a negative remark about the woman being a single mother with two daughters, ages 12 and 10. But he said he tried to avoid the confrontation by walking to his car.
Vigil followed, picked up a nearby folding chair, and in view of her daughter, “slammed me in the face with it three times,” Schwarzman said. “I never touched her.”
Vigil then keyed a van she thought was the coach’s before leaving, Schwarzman said. He said Vigil must have been upset over more than the directions, but he didn’t know what. He said her oldest daughter and his daughter attended the same school and both played on his team.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/ny-lisocc1023,0,3461712.story
Reckless endanngerment? Why is this not assault?
She hit Schwarzman, 67, an elderly man. I think thats terrible. To behave like that in front of her children is bad enough but you don’t go hitting the elderly. She certainly isn’t going to win parent of the year.
Conversely, I will need to see a photo of aforementioned soccer mom in order to make a determination of guilt.
Interesting. She apparently has a problem with Americans...among other things.
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