If You Want To Know Why Childrens’ Sports Is Out If Control

Take a look at a referee choking a coach of a 7th Grade Girls team.

Mickey Shaffer of Poyen said he was coaching the Lady Wings from Central Arkansas as they competed in the seventh- and eighth-grade girls’ division of the Challenge of Champions tournament in Little Rock when he questioned a referee’s call, and the referee, whose name Shaffer did not know, called a technical foul on him.

Shaffer said he sat down but continued objecting to the call, and the referee called a second technical foul on him and ejected him from the game. Shaffer said he was “getting my two cents in” on his way out when the referee grabbed him by the throat and choked him for a few seconds.

The choking, captured in a photo by LaJuan Mooney of the Saline County Voice, “looks a lot worse than it was,” said Shaffer, who also is head girls basketball coach at Poyen High School.

“It wasn’t any drawn-out, all-over-the-place thing,” Shaffer said. “It was just a quick, spur-of-the moment thing.”

The tournament was sponsored by Youth Sports America. Terrie Sossamon, operations director for the Maumelle-based organization, referred questions Monday to Tim Loring, the organization’s national director. Phone calls and e-mails to Loring were not immediately returned Monday.

The tournament was held at the Court of Dreams facility in southwest Little Rock, which has three courts. The referee who choked Shaffer was removed from the game he had been officiating and swapped with a referee from a different game on another court, according to witnesses.

The Lady Wings – team members are from Poyen, Jessieville, Bauxite, Beebe and the Fort Lake community – went on to beat Team Arkansas, also from Central Arkansas, by nine points.

The mother of a Lady Wings team member said the referee should have been ejected from the tournament. She said she plans to complain about his behavior.

“He way overreacted, and he did a malicious thing in front of a lot of kids,” said the parent, who asked that her name not be used. “When you’re in that kind of position, you’re supposed to be about sportsmanship and all this, and if you don’t have any more self-control than that, you just don’t need to be in that position.”

Shaffer said he did not complain about the referee’s behavior and did not plan to complain. He said he regretted his own behavior in the incident.

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If You Are A 12-Year-Old Boy Gets A DUI While Stealng Your Dad’s Truck

You probably should anticipate a severe ass-beating from your parents.

Sheriff Jimmy Dorney said the 12-year-old boy and his 10-year-old friend drove off in the truck May 4 to find a girl they met at a rodeo. The boys made it about 10 miles before the 12-year-old lost control of the truck.

Dorney said the truck hit and jumped over a guardrail, sending it careening 50 feet down a steep hill into a forest.

Clark James, 46, who lives down the road from the crash site, said he answered the boys’ banging at his front door with shotgun in hand about 2:30 a.m.

“I opened the door and the first thing (the 12-year-old) said to me was, ‘I’m drunk and I had a wreck,’” James said. “I looked at him and I thought ‘You’re kind of young to be out drinking. And you sure shouldn’t be driving.’”

Neither boy was seriously injured in the crash.

County prosecutor Bruce Wilson said that he will charge the 12-year-old boy with drunken driving and several other misdemeanor charges in district and juvenile court in Johnson County.

If You Want A Reason To Enjoy Swedish Female Athletes

Just check out Carolina Kluft, who seems to have issues with how she is depicted.

“I don’t think that looks so nice. I have to be honest,” Klüft said on Monday following the unveiling of the image, which featured a video image of track star’s face superimposed on a drawing of a buxom athlete sporting blond pony-tails.

“That’s not me, a floozie with big boobs.”

Klüft’s comments came during a press conference put on by the arrangers of the Grangemouth athletics event to promote the July 1st competition.

The track star was speaking via a video link from Växjö, Sweden, and Scottishathletics had planned to have her video image projected through the Pippi-like cut out for the duration of the press conference, portions of which were released on the website of Scottish newspaper The Herald.

According to the The Herald, the image had been approved by Klüft’s father, but did apparently not meet with the approval of the 25-year-old long jumper.

If You Are A Pilot Who Wants A Little “Alone Time” With Your Stewardess

Try not to get lost in the woods.

Bradford, of Moon Twp. in the Pittsburgh suburbs, wound up naked and wandering in the woods, triggering a search that involved a state police helicopter with body-heat-sensing gear, authorities said.

The pilot — who police found shortly before midnight — had been scheduled to fly out of Harrisburg International Airport to Detroit at 7:30 a.m. Monday, a Pinnacle Airlines official said.

Instead, Bradford and Connor, 24, of Belleville, Mich., appeared before a district judge Monday and were released on $10,000 bail each.

“We would have a zero-tolerance policy for actions of the type alleged in this instance,” said Joe Williams, a spokesman for the Memphis-based airline.

Bradford and Connor have been suspended pending an investigation, he said.

The search began after Robert Furlong, the township fire chief, heard noises outside his Richardson Road home sometime after 9 p.m. Sunday and found Connor in his duty vehicle, police said.

“She said the reason she got into the [vehicle] was to look for a flashlight to find her friend,” Brandt said.

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This time, a man of Afghan origins who stabbed a rabbi was sentenced to jail.

The 23-year-old Said A. knifed the 42-year-old Rabbi Zalman Gurevitch in the stomach after shouting, “I’m going to stab you, you damn Jew,” according to witnesses.

Prosecutors had originally intended to charge the man with attempted manslaughter but pursued charges of grievous bodily harm instead, due to lack of evidence. They had asked the court for four years.

If You Bring A Live Hand Grenade To A Crackhouse

You have to be the dumbest convict ever.

Authorities closed a section of West Washington Street about 10:30 a.m. Monday after officers found the grenades in Lester’s coat pocket, police said.

A police bomb squad was dispatched to the scene west of Belmont Street near 2600 West Washington after narcotics detectives with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department stopped and searched a man who left a house they were watching near Belleview Place and Washington Street.