Is there a better candidate for "Arsehole of the Week" than this ... ?

[woolly]

From: News of the Weird (.714)

LEAD STORIES

At a Sept. 15 Pop Warner football league game (kids age 13 and 14) in Milford, Mass., after the home team had conducted a brief, pre-arranged memorial observance (with both teams’ players and cheerleaders) for the victims of Sept. 11, the referee nonetheless tossed his yellow penalty flag, assessed the home team a 15-yard penalty for delaying the start of game, and refused to change the call despite outraged protests. [Milford Daily News, 9-18-01]

Now I’ve played sport on many occaisions with bumptious, over zealous, pedantic, “It’s all about me, Sony” umpires/referees/officials but nothing of this calibre.

[Iguana_Boy]

I saw this today too.

No doubt there will be some technical rule stating that if there is to be a delay to the start of a game then it must first be agreed with the referee.

Even so, I’m surprised the guy wasn’t lynched right there and then on the field.

What a dick.

[lurkernomore]

a contender from This is True:

THIS is TRUE for 7 October 2001 Copyright 2001 http://www.thisistrue.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ZERO TOLERANCE GETS BACK TO NORMAL: Fifth-grader Paul Volz, 11, dealt
with his fear of terrorism through art, drawing the burning World Trade Center towers. He was proud of his work: he taped the picture up near his study cubicle at school in High Ridge, Mo. “When I asked him why he did this, he just looked at me and smiled,” said North Jefferson Intermediate School principal Jeff Boyer. “This is totally inappropriate and Paul’s behavior has to change,” he told the boy’s parents. Boyer suspended the boy for three days for smiling at the drawing on grounds it was “disruptive physical conduct or speech” and “communication of a threatening nature.” The school district supports the principal, noting “Some drawings can be therapeutic and others can be offensive.” (St Louis Post-Dispatch) …“We have met the enemy and he is us.” --Walt Kelly (1913-1973), American cartoonist and social commentator.

   Once again, zero tolerance equals zero intelligence.

He smiled. Horrors. I wonder what would happen if some parent saw him smile at their daughter and charged him with child molestation. "Well, it was inappropriate...". Not much stupider than suspending a kid for a smile.

[Bob_Scene]

If we start giving prizes to all the school officials who can only get their rocks off by punishing kids and have to keep looking for increasingly stupid reasons to do it, I think we’ll have to change it to “Arsehole of the Minute.”