If you read my daily link dump this morning (and if you didn’t, thanks for nothing a-hole), then you’ll remember me mentioning a fight in the stands at the U.S. Open between an old guy and a New York douchebag that ended with the old guy rolling down a few flights of stairs before security intervened.
The video has been making the rounds pretty well everywhere, which isn’t surprising seeing that it’s the most exciting thing ever witnessed during a tennis match, and that includes Anna Kournikova’s tantalizingly short skirts.
The initial video of the fight was great, save for the sassiness of the commentator, but thanks to our friends at Out of Bounds (go there, enjoy, come back) we can give you an even better view of the action, including the initial slap by old guy’s female companion.
Video after the jump (NSFW for obvious salty language)…
From what I can gather, woman and old man were offended with Jersey Shore reject’s constant F-bomb stream, called him on it, which he didn’t take to kindly. Everybody gets all up in everyone else’s face, woman slaps the d-bag who nearly retaliates before laughing it off, tells the woman “I’ve got a lot of money on the game” (wait…what), she sits down, d-bag spouts off one last time, old guy comes over, gets d-bag in headlock, and both go tumbling down over the seats.
Sound about right?
As much as I have a problem with mouthy douchebags like this guy (dude, easy on the had gestures too), the fault clearly lies with the old guy and the woman. The proper thing would have been to go to security and complain, then let them handle the problem. No matter how valiant it was for the old bugger to defend his companion’s honor, mixing it up with a guy twice as young and in five times better shape than you never ends well—a point which the video makes quite eloquently.
UPDATE: From the Washington Post, via Out of Bounds…
According to the New York Post, the brawl stemmed from an issue over vocabulary. “He said, ‘You’ve got a problem? Go ahead and hit me,’ and she slapped him across the face,” a source told the Post.
All three fans were taken the 110th Precinct in Queens, Tim Curry, a spokesman for the United States Tennis Association, said. They were not charged; rather, they were given trespass warnings and told not to return to the Open for a certain amount of time, the New York Times reported (authorities were not aware of the duration).
