Skip to comments.
Brawl erupts after song played at rodeo
ABC13 News - Houston ^
| 3/15/03
| Elma Barrera
Posted on 03/15/2003 4:38:19 PM PST by CoolGuyVic
By Elma Barrera
ABC13 Eyewitness News
(3/14/03) Talk of war with Iraq has sparked an atmosphere of tension and anxiety. And it may be to blame for a brawl that broke out at the rodeo Thursday night.
ABC-13 report
With some 15,000 to 20,000 folks at the rodeo drinking beer and having fun, things can get a little out of hand at times. It happened when a tape of Lee Greenwood's song Proud To Be An American was playing. Some rodeo fans were standing and others were sitting down. Felix Fanaselle and his buddies chose to remain seated.
"This guy behind us starts yelling at us (because) we're not standing up," said Fanaselle. "He starts cussing at us, telling us to go back to Iraq."
The 16-year-old said the man seated behind him started spitting at him and spilling his beer on him and his friends.
"By the end of the song, he pulled my ear. I got up. He pushed me. I pushed him," said Felix. "He punched me in my face. I got him off me."
When the dust settled, Fanaselle had been handcuffed and released. He and John McCambridge were cited for "mutual combat" and fighting in public. That's a $200 fine. Fanaselle's lawyer says you don't have to stand for a country and western song.
"I guess next time, he'll think maybe we need to stand for the Okie From Muscogee," said attorney Clayton Rawlings. "This is phony patriotism. This man needs to be ashamed of himself for what he did."
Rawlings says he and the Fanaselle family will give McCambridge a chance to make this right without going to court. The family says the biggest insult was McCambridge telling Fanaselle to go back to Iraq. Fanaselle is half Hispanic and half Italian.
"He was born in this country and who is this clown to tell him to go back where he came from? He came from Houston, Texas, so he is where he came from," said Rawlings.
Rawlings says if the citation isn't dismissed after witnesses testify, they'll be going to court with accusations of assault and battery, mental anguish and lawyer's fees. Eyewitness news tried to contact John McCambridge in Austin for his side of the story, but so far there's been no response.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abc; brawl; disney; disneynews; drunkrodeofans; leegreenwood; mediabias; mickeymouse; mousesevilempire; notreporting; onesidedreport; propaganda; rodeo
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20, 21-40, 41-60, 61-80 ... 161-164 next last
To: onceone
I suppose we are supposed to support kickin' the ass of Jehovah's Witnesses because they wont stand for the pledge either. No, but we ought to ask them to deliver the mail. It would save money, and would be an ice breaker.
41
posted on
03/15/2003 5:10:05 PM PST
by
sinkspur
To: DAnconia55
outrageous ,the guy defends himself and he gets charged?
42
posted on
03/15/2003 5:10:59 PM PST
by
linn37
(WE'LL PUT A BOOT IN YOUR ASS ITS THE AMERICAN WAY)
To: CoolGuyVic
I can't believe there are FReepers who aren't hideously embarrassed by this.
43
posted on
03/15/2003 5:14:47 PM PST
by
Illbay
(Don't believe every tagline you read - including this one)
To: cynicom
Well, one has only to read your post to make a rapid evaluation of your character and your social behavior. It is all there for the rest of us to read, it is not nice. Hello. Is anybody home? You must have interesting social gatherings as you seem to equate loutish, violent behavior as acceptable.
My character is in much better shape than your ability to understand the written word.
44
posted on
03/15/2003 5:15:23 PM PST
by
onceone
To: sinkspur
LOL!
45
posted on
03/15/2003 5:17:33 PM PST
by
Lx
(So it's now, Duct tape and cover?)
To: CoolGuyVic
"This is phony patriotism. This man needs to be ashamed of himself for what he did."Exactly. The guy is a POS. As if standing for a CW song has anything to do with patriotism. Duh.
46
posted on
03/15/2003 5:17:41 PM PST
by
Sandy
To: onceone
Your original post stands on its own, your last post only reinforces it.
47
posted on
03/15/2003 5:18:24 PM PST
by
cynicom
To: HoustonCurmudgeon
I stand for the National Anthem, Dixie.... I hadn't heard "Dixie" in a long time. Then today, it came roaring through on a country & western station. Hot Damn! We sure used to get things fired up when the band played that song.
To: Jon Geb
To: Illbay
I'm not embarassed. It wasn't me doing any of the fighting ---and I see fights pretty often around here. My kids do too ---by the time they're in middle school, they'll see a similar fight every day.
50
posted on
03/15/2003 5:25:21 PM PST
by
FITZ
To: 38special
Just another Houston Urban Cowboy Redneck. Nothing to see here folks, please move along. I hope this kid never goes to a soccer game in Europe if he thinks getting his ear pulled is so bad.
51
posted on
03/15/2003 5:29:31 PM PST
by
FITZ
To: FITZ
Some people jest need whippen you know what i mean.
52
posted on
03/15/2003 5:30:25 PM PST
by
solo gringo
(Always Ranting Always Rite)
To: Physicist
I don't see myself standing for a Lee Greenwood song, until and unless they make it the National Anthem. In fact, the very idea of standing for it sounds cheap. BUMP!.........Stupid Idiot in the upper seats ruined the rodeo for a family just minding its own business.
To: irish_lad
It's not the damn National Anthem we don't stand for Lee Greenwood and we sure don't kick the @ss of those who don't...where the heck are you from!
54
posted on
03/15/2003 5:34:28 PM PST
by
SouthernFreebird
( Your just jealous because the voices talk to me....)
To: CoolGuyVic
I have heard that this Lee Greenwood was at one time in his life a person who evaded the draft. Perhaps someome out there in Freepland can verify, or speak to this?
To: CoolGuyVic
Lee Greenwood's song Who?
Unless they're playing the National Anthem or God Bless America, my ass is going to sit. And if some drunk hillbilly cretin doesn't like it and decides to take it to the next level, he's going to be lying flat on his back feeling the steel of my Ka-Bar on his ribs in short order.
56
posted on
03/15/2003 5:35:35 PM PST
by
Mr. Mojo
To: Red Dog #1
Maybe he was born and lives here. But I know where his heart is. You a psychic?
57
posted on
03/15/2003 5:37:24 PM PST
by
Mr. Mojo
To: LurkerNoMore!
Beer+Texans+Yanked animal testicles=Trouble.
To: savedbygrace
"When he grows up, he'll vote Republican, but if he just gets older without growing up, he'll vote Dimocrat."
Agreed.
My father, God bless his soul, always used to say: "A Democrat is a Republican who has never been smacked."
59
posted on
03/15/2003 5:48:39 PM PST
by
issos
To: CoolGuyVic
Heck the boy was to engrossed in looking at the following to be worrying about Lee Greenwood's song.....
Click the picture for full view
60
posted on
03/15/2003 5:50:46 PM PST
by
deport
(The Truth doesn't need a gift to be known.....)
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20, 21-40, 41-60, 61-80 ... 161-164 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson