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Tonight's Dodger game was amazing in so many ways. The emotions ran high, ranging from the elation of witnessing Matt Kemp's grand slam to top off a 10 run first inning, the fear and helplessness of watching umpire Kerwin Danley get hit in the head by one of Penny's pitches, and then the absolute anger and frustration that I personally experienced sitting in front of the most annoying fucktard ever.
Sometime around the 5th inning, I started to get pelted with popcorn by this fucker. It was sticking to my hair and falling down my back. So naturally, I turned around and told him to stop. This shouldn't be difficult for a grown man to understand. However his little friend (next photo) said "but he's throwing it and I'm eating it.... so stop looking at me!"
"Okay, then stop throwing popcorn and I won't have to turn around."
"But I want to eeeeaaaaat it! I'm going to catch it and eeeeeeeeaaaaat it!"
"You're not going to eat it out of my shorts, and that's where it's landing."
"Eeeew, you're right! Eeeeeew!"
"Okay, then stop throwing the fucking popcorn."
At this point the fucktard offers some very helpful advice: "Shut up and watch the game, lady!"
I am completely bewildered by his kindness and consideration. "Okay then stop throwing your fucking popcorn at me."
He responds with some medical wisdom: "You need to chill out...go smoke a bowl!"
At this point even my parents are irritated, and his attempts at making friends are clearly wearing thin. "OKAY, I WILL CHILL OUT WHEN YOU STOP THROWING YOUR POPCORN AT ME!"
Since he'd just used his clever marijuana line on me and had run out of retorts, he starts shouting (again), "Just turn around and watch the game!"
At this point I just turned around and glared, figuring he'd get worked up enough that he'd leave to go smoke a bowl and then next thing I know, dirty feet girl (photo 3) is whining again.
"STOP LOOKING AT MEEEEEEE!" The poor girl was near tears as the only functioning neuron she has left was overloaded with yelling, beer and popcorn throwing. "I don't like how you're looking at meeeee!"
At this point even my mom is pissed off, as they all start mocking us with their popcorn throwing. The interesting part is that they weren't even throwing the popcorn at me on purpose, but got angry when I pointed out that it was hitting me. And the best part is, of course, that the jerk who yelled at me and called me names asked me to take his picture. Clearly he didn't know what the fate of that digital file would be.
So now I will sit here at the computer and eagerly await all comments like "it was a Saturday night and people are drunk, you're a sexless prude who doesn't know how to have fun" or "having popcorn in your hair is part of being at a baseball game, have you even been to Dodger Stadium before?" And then I will laugh, because if people like you didn't exist I'd have no one to write about.
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That kid absolutely looks like the kind of kid that would throw food. It's like he's from central casting.
And that is why I never go to baseball games. Well, aside from the fact that they put me to sleep.
That first photo is amazing.
I would have gotten my food out of that pile her feet were on and held it in a nice overhand position next to my head. They would have had to call detante. At least it used to work on my brothers.
Great photos!
Matt Kemp is STRONG. He hit that slam to center mostly one handed. Love that kid.
Mal, that section you sit in is FREAKY! You have to pay extra for those seats?
Buy the way, my offer for seats down low still stands, just let me know.
Cheese
No offense, but you clearly have an attitude problem.
News flash: there are often people at public events who act like fools.
If one is bothering you, here is what you do:
- politely ask them to stop
- if they don't, calmly get up and speak to security
End of problem.
Your use of profanity should actually have had YOU ejected from the game. If I were there with my kids, I would really have not been pleased that you were swearing in front of them.
Really, maybe you should just stay home and watch the games on TV? You seem to invite a lot of friciton.
Funny Guy:
http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/3673/funnyguyov7.jpg
Also wondering, why are you posting candid shots of people's underwear? Did you ask them? That seems pretty unethical. If it were a man taking secret pictures up a girl's skirt, you'd be rightly criticized. This is not much different.
Those people don't seem to have any problem showing their nasty underwear to 50,000+ people at the ballpark. I don't think they'll care much if some bloggers take note. If they do, we'll distract them with a beach ball.
Good one, scooty430. Have you EVER been to a public event before? It's all fair game, it even says so on the back of the ticket. Sorry buddy, but your privacy argument is a joke.
Next time you take your kids to a game, pick up a magnifying glass and read them this passage on the back of the ticket in a scary voice before they go to bed:
This could be one of many reasons why enthusiastic fans are sometimes seen wearing paper bags over their head.It would be awesome though if they made an announcement every game in the third inning:
"Please refrain from taking any upskirt photos and don't even think of writing -- or telling anyone -- about your experience at the stadium tonight. We appreciate you being cilivized [sic] and sportsmanlike [sic]."
Truth be told, MLB already has rules in place banning particular use of in-game photos by online media. Major media organizations such as Hearst, Gannett, Sports Illustrated, and AP are ignoring these rules in protest.
I feel for your horrible experience that night with one of the MANY douche bags that claim to be Dodgers fans. Put simply, those types aren't really even fans, just idiots using baseball as an excuse to waste time.
I would like to apologize, me being a life long die hard Dodgers fan myself, for the actions of those life long idiots.
P.S.
scooty430 sounds like a douche bad them self.
Hey scooty430!, time to rinse, wash, repeat dumb ass!... :||
Gee, thanks for the advice scooty. But if you read the article, you would have noticed that she did ask the guy to stop. He didn't and he continued being an idiot.
As for the privacy argument, not gonna fly, as Andy wisely stated above. To expect privacy anywhere outside of your own home is unrealistic. And that picture of the thong is HARDLY candid. It's not like Malingering shoved her camera up her ass, for christ's sake. Maybe you should go read this to brush up on the whole photography/privacy thing.
So far, the only person who's "offended" seems to be you. Perhaps you should start closing your eyes when you're on this site, or maybe even the entire Internet.
Awesome pictures, Mal. Sorry some assholes ruined the game for you. At least the Dodgers won, right?
scooty, you seem like the type of person who doesn't like people swearing in front of your kids, but then allows them to run around like animals and brings them to places totally inappropriate for children. your ned flanders approach to conflicts is what really invites conflict.
and guess what, taking pictures of women dressed up like skanks is NOT unethical. what's unethical is them going out in public looking like that. furthermore taking a picture of a thong hanging out/cleavage is NOT the same as taking an upskirt photo. one is obviously in plain view while the other isn't.
Very nice photos, and people please keep you feet and popcorn to yourselves.
I appreciate that Mal is careful not to show the faces of the women when she shoots cleavage (of many kinds).
And if the people in the photo recognize themselves and ask, she'll take the pic off of Flickr.
So she is more considerate than most.
Go talk to the people at Girls Gone Wild if you are on an exploitation tear.
That thong is mind boggling... why is it tied up so high like that and how is it holding up? She obviously wanted it to be seen.
I gotta get to more Dodgers games.
Awesome pics, Malingering.
"Also wondering, why are you posting candid shots of people's underwear? Did you ask them? That seems pretty unethical. If it were a man taking secret pictures up a girl's skirt, you'd be rightly criticized. This is not much different."
Hahahaha. You're right. Clearly she was trying to hide her underwear. This is just like an upskirt. I am a sick, sick pervert. LAist should dispose of me immediately.
Oh, and I did get security. Twice. They did nothing.
I saw this on your (Mal's) flickr album too (and your pictures of the game are fantastic) and I hope everyone gets to see this idiot and he is ceremoniously pelted with popcorn and spitballs soon.
Mal's pictures often make my day. She takes photos where I can only point, glare, or gasp.
Some day popcorn boy is going to try that crap with someone who's not going to put up with it and punch his lights out. He's then going to wonder what he did to deserve getting beat up.
GOD I hate people.
wow, your Dodger game night SUCKED!!!! KARMA!!!!
You bring to life all the horror stories I hear about Dodger games, and you're not even in the cheap seats!
matt kemp's been added to my fantasy team