[#3Fan]

I'll give him a pass on assault, I'll even admit he wasn't trying to hurt her. But I'm not giving him a pass on should have known better. Just because somebody doesn't mean to do any harm doesn't mean we shouldn't recognize the stupidity and potential harmfulness of the act. I'm sure that basketball player who killed his chaffuer a couple of years ago didn't mean to do any harm either, just playing around with a shotgun, did something a little stupid, but he didn't mean any harm.

Yeah, I'll have to watch the video. For a person running, it seems like it would take a hard hit to knock her forward. I'll see.

[discostu]

I think it's a mass thing, hitting the top of the foam tilted her forward and that made her topple, probably some WTF shock played into it too. Given some of the stuff baseball fans have done lately if I were in that thing and suddenly it got hit I wouldn't be trying too hard to stay upright, lowering my profile would be goal 1, finding out if I'm on fire would be #2. Seriously dumb. Do this from the front and give her lots of warning and it could be funny, hopefully the Brewers will come up with a mocking tradition they can do to honor the event, like the trashcan toss at that one minor league hockey team (commemorating a coach that blew his top and threw a trashcan on the ice). Or maybe just add a midget in a yellow jumpsuit to the race.

[Akira]

You said "Looks like assault to me" and you haven't even watched the video?!?!?!?!? So how exactly does it look like assault to you?

I think everybody is in agreement that it was ETERNALLY STUPID, but perhaps we all have different definitions of intent and assault. But hey, people have been awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars in civil court for less than this, so what do I know?

I do know that I cannot believe I recently joined FR to waste 10 posts on a foam sausage story. ;-) Like there's nothing else going on in this world.