r/sports • u/GreenAldiers Dallas Wings • 13d ago
Basketball 12-year-old girl struck by sex toy thrown at WNBA game in Brooklyn; suspect sought by NYPD
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/12-year-old-girl-struck-sex-toy-thrown-wnba-game-brooklyn-suspect-soug-rcna2242921.1k
u/Rigerz 13d ago
That's a real stupid way to end up on a list
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u/Karl_with_a_C 13d ago
Is there a smart way to do it?
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u/greenrangerguy 13d ago
Become the president and say there was no list
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u/aIIisonmay 13d ago
But if there IS a list it's fake
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u/rory_breakers_ganja 13d ago
And if it IS fake, it's because The Biden Administration faked it.
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u/f-reddito 13d ago
But If this fake list exists, all democrats on it actually did the bad things and any republican names on it are fake.
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u/ADhomin_em 13d ago
Still entirely valid grounds for getting thrown on that list.
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u/ToxicBTCMaximalist 13d ago
In one act they proved they are not safe to be around children because of their judgement.
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u/LIslander 13d ago
He looks exactly like I expect him to
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u/tsunami_forever 13d ago
It’s always the ones you most suspect
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u/Chopper_1978 13d ago
Stereotypes u say?
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u/Funkula 13d ago
Phrenology actually. Only someone with his brain pan would think throwing dildos at children during a WNBA game to be a good way to spend an evening.
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u/tuna_samich_ 13d ago
So all these grown men trying to clown women athletes when they themselves can't throw an object at a down angle onto the court?
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u/GreenAldiers Dallas Wings 13d ago
That seems to be the consensus of the average redditor. Whenever these news stories were being posted, before a child was hit, it was nothing but people shitting on the WNBA. So it's kind of funny to see those same people come back and pretend to care now.
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u/fec2455 13d ago
Reddit is rarely "the same people", the audience that clicks changed dramatically based on the headline.
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u/AngrySasquatch 13d ago
I’ve seen people call it the goomba fallacy
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u/Firm-Contract-5940 12d ago
the fact we have wikipedia pages for memes that become actual fallacies is insane
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u/ReasonableMustelid 13d ago
It’s me, I make all the posts on Reddit. It’s exhausting.
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u/LimberGravy 13d ago
Hi I’ve cared the whole time. It’s gross and anyone who finds it funny is a loser of the highest degree.
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u/ToxicBTCMaximalist 13d ago
I've been hard line since day one, they should prosecute and sue to make an example.
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u/5xad0w 13d ago
An object which should be heavier on one end so you can give it a good tomahawk toss.
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u/LargeCondition5315 13d ago
Paying tickets to a WNBA game just to throw dildos is crazy 💀
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u/samples98 13d ago
Don’t forget he paid for the dildo, too
Or did he?
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u/Doggleganger 13d ago
He looks like the kind of civilized person that would buy a new dildo rather than throw a used one from his collection.
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u/SwooceBrosGaming 13d ago
He probably bet money on the color of the next one and wanted to rig the bet in his favor assuming he'd
A) actually be able to throwB) Not get arrested for committing a crime during a televised event
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u/Itchy-Association239 13d ago
Totally! I was going to say the same thing. Some people just need to get a life and move on, they are using up oxygen.
Bellends
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u/Pixel_Octopus 12d ago
Are fans going to have to start uploading their IDs to verify they're of age?
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u/L3ACH13 13d ago
Prolly only pay like 10 bucks tho
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u/BlubberElk 13d ago
Hoping this finally is a wake up call to the people who say it’s “not a big deal and it’s funny”
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u/GreenAldiers Dallas Wings 13d ago
Oh the same bozos who came in here and shit all over the WNBA for no reason a few days ago will now pile in to pretend like they're decent people who care.
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u/chuckmonjares 13d ago
They also just don’t know what they’re talking about. I’ll be honest I don’t watch a ton of WNBA because I don’t think it’s that fun to watch, just like I don’t watch the NBA because I don’t think it’s that fun to watch. That’s all beside the point.
The WNBA DOES lose the NBA tens of millions every year on paper. What these dumbfucks don’t realize is the WNBA also saves the nba about 100 million in marketing dollars. The WNBA is awesome. I don’t watch it but I still think it’s sick, and I do like to keep up. It’s not a stupid thing I think it’s great. Of course it’s gonna grow and I’m happy it’s getting talked about. I’ll never understand men putting women down for whatever reason. Makes them feel better I guess.
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u/kieranjackwilson 13d ago
When someone says the WNBA is losing money just inform them that the NBA wasn’t consistently profitable until the 1980s and move on.
You have to remember what kind of person would have a grudge against a professional women’s basketball league, and then speak slowly.
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u/CTeam19 Iowa State 13d ago
Yep.
The Iowa High School Girl's State Tournament would out draw the NBA per game till the 1980s/1990s. 1975-1976 season was the first year that the NBA crossed the 10,000 fan mark.. The Iowa High School Girls were getting 15,000+ in the state tournament. In fact, Iowa High School Girl's Basketball beat the NBA in being aired on TV first by a few years.
Till the last 2 years, Iowa and Iowa State college teams outdrew most of the WNBA save for maybe 2 or 3 teams.
Remember, overall, women's sports is young to much of the country. Meanwhile Iowa had a DEEP Women's/Girl's sports culture: "In 1970, 20 percent of all girls participating in high school sports across the country were in Iowa—quite remarkable, considering Iowa was only 1 percent of the entire U.S. population. By 1976, a few years after the passage of Title IX, that eye-popping 20 percent fell to 5.8 percent."
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u/AlanFromRochester Buffalo Bills 13d ago
Yeah, sports businesses take awhile to get profitable even for the men Like MLB/NFL/NHL had relatively low salaries for decades until TV brought in loads of money
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u/dustinyo_ Minnesota Wild 12d ago
They also don't publicly release revenue numbers and all the reporting on it is just educated guessing.
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u/cgibsong002 13d ago
Also no one ever considered the fact that the money put into marketing is what drives the perception of what is a "good sport". People act like it's a simple fact that the NBA is more entertaining because they are physically superior - but that's just exactly what marketing has played up. The NBA wants you to think that pure athleticism is the only thing that's entertaining. That's not a universal truth.
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u/mithyyyy 13d ago
the people who start caring about the money the WNBA is 'losing' it's so fucking funny to me... acting like its their money being thrown around instead of bunch of billionaires, buddy
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u/dustinyo_ Minnesota Wild 12d ago
Not to mention those billionaires chose to buy those teams. They really act like they're victims, it's wild.
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u/GreenAldiers Dallas Wings 12d ago
Yep! Because whenever I watch sports, I'm always like, "DAMN! That was a good shot! Unfortunately the league is not making money for the NBA so I'm not having fun :("
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u/GreenAldiers Dallas Wings 13d ago
Took the words right out of my mouth. I couldn't have put it any better. I have been an avid watcher the last 4 years, and it just amazes me that people will talk so much shit about it, and never watch a single game, not even a minute. I personally think supporting women is cool, regardless of if the NBA is losing money (it's not my money, why would I care?).
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u/Eat--The--Rich-- 13d ago
You mean most of the redditors on these wnba threads?
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u/BlubberElk 13d ago
There’s like 2/3 wnba subs that are genuine wnba fans and then there’s others that are people who hate the wnba and have never watched it but have a lot of opinions on it
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u/RaisingFargo 13d ago
That’s going to be a very serious charge which hopefully stops people from doing it
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u/Thanos_Stomps 13d ago
This isn’t even the first little girl to be hit by a dildo. A 9 year old was also hit although the article kind phrased it weird where it may have only been her uncle that was hit.
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u/Banned3rdTimesaCharm 13d ago
Ricochet dildo.
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u/IcyMission3 13d ago
Put him on the offender list
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u/DanskNils 13d ago
This seems like a rather large American reaction? How would that even equate if he was aiming for the court?
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u/JeulMartin 13d ago
Exactly this. If he threw a sex toy that hit a little girl anywhere else, it'd be serious shit. I don't see why this should be any different.
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u/OkClassic2254 13d ago
I mean it’d be pretty easy in court to show he wasn’t targeting the little girl. He definitely should be punished but no chance he’d be put on the sex offender list because of this
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u/DinoSpumoniOfficial 13d ago
And nor should he. He’s an idiot but he literally didn’t sexually assault anyone. Assault sure. Sexual assault? Cmon now.
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u/RigaudonAS 13d ago
Doesn’t really matter. He took a sex toy out in public with full intention of doing so, knowing there would be kids around, and then hit a little girl with it. Why shouldn’t he? Imagine being a 12 year old girl and having a rubber cock and balls hit you in the head. It’s definitely offensive, and yes, it’s definitely sexual despite what a lot of people in this thread don’t want to say.
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u/BoSocks91 13d ago edited 13d ago
Got downvoted into oblivion for saying this recent dildo trend wasn’t funny, so Im glad somebody else agrees.
Now this happened.
People are such sheep and are so desperate for attention.
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u/mosscock_treeman 13d ago
That's crazy it happened again after you said it wasn't funny. Why didn't anyone listen to this guy?
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u/shmottlahb 13d ago
Where are all the politicians and others who have been so concerned about the safety of women’s sports the last couple years? Silent on this?
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u/GreenAldiers Dallas Wings 13d ago
Making fun of it. Don Jr. posted a photoshopped picture of Donald Trump throwing the dildos onto the court.
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u/shmottlahb 13d ago
Right? These are the same people who will tell you how much they need to protect women.
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u/LimberGravy 13d ago
They never did. That’s just the part of Trans issues that polls the worst so they use it as wedge to try to remove them from society.
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u/dusty_burners 13d ago
How did America get so trashy, it’s out of control
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u/DinoSpumoniOfficial 13d ago
Our president is encouraging it and breeding it. He set us back like 30 years when it comes to respect and kindness.
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u/vhalember 13d ago
30 years? Oh, my friend its far more than that. We're not even in the 1900's for some of this shit.
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u/dustinyo_ Minnesota Wild 12d ago
This is ultimately what his cult wanted. Permission to be sexist, racist assholes again.
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u/LimberGravy 13d ago
Well in 2016 people decided “grab them by the pussy” was an acceptable position
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u/hugo4711 Cleveland Guardians 13d ago
Social Media - but even more the outright stupidity of the masses has happened
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u/GreenAldiers Dallas Wings 13d ago
I wonder if Donald Trump Jr. still thinks this is funny?
Donald Trump Jr. mocked for posting photoshopped image of president tossing sex toy onto WNBA court
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u/unsolved49 13d ago
Isn’t this the 2nd time recently where a CHILD was hit by a grown man with a dildo? WTF is going on
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u/LehighAce06 13d ago
The breakdown of society
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u/breatheb4thevoid 13d ago edited 13d ago
They warned us this would happen when the radical
leftright took control.
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u/BillyOdin 13d ago
Imagine being so uncoordinated you can’t hit an entire basketball court and still nominating yourself to be the person that makes a mockery of girl’s sports.
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u/CoolBakedBean 13d ago
it probably goes deep. he is mad at women cuz he believes they took his spot.
if you’re a guy that not athletic it can be frustrating not to make any sports teams while you see women able to make the team . even tho you know if there wasn’t a separate women’s only team you’d be good enough for a second team overall.
altho i disagree with him. it’s like people that get mad at a car that’s double parked in a full lot. yeah there’s a spot you could have had but if they didn’t double park someone else would have taken that spot anyway . but sometimes it’s human nature to blame the whole situation on the double parked car
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u/PhazePyre 13d ago
Looks exactly like I'd expect. As the boys from Letterkenny would say, he's a degen from upcountry.
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u/MrTreize78 13d ago
I find it sad that these things happen. I also find it highly unusual that an arena with so many high definition cameras, both for broadcast and security, can’t find one dude throwing plastic/latex wieners.
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u/WeeklyJunket5227 13d ago
The fact that some people thinking this is a joke (Jason Whitlock) is sick. Somebody same clowns claim to be conservative, sitting on their high horses. Now a little kid gets hit, now what?
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u/Wakandan15 13d ago
Out of the loop…what’s the point of this? Just to be a pos?
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u/futureformerteacher 13d ago
So, the last one was a Kaden.
I'm gonna guess this ones a Jayson, or a Jayce, or maybe a Jaden.
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u/thumb_emoji_survivor 12d ago
Bet it takes longer to catch him than Luigi
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u/ajkeence99 12d ago
Well one person murdered someone on camera in broad daylight and the other tossed a piece of silicone.
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u/Pearson94 12d ago
The Beevis and Butthead shirt is a nice touch. Really helps complete the image of this guy. Picture him laughing like one of them while throwing sex toys.
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u/NOGOODGASHOLE 12d ago
Can someone be sentenced to, "Until you can make that dumb shit make sense" years?
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u/ThatHorseWithTeeth 13d ago
Mocking women for playing sports yet you can’t even throw the dildo onto the court?
Look, I don’t have a lot of experience throwing rubber penises around - busy weekends and whatnot. However, put me anywhere in the main stadium and I am getting that thing to land on a regulation basketball court.
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u/TeeDee144 13d ago
Should count as sexual assault against a minor and get him put on a registered sex offender list.
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u/oldRedF0x 13d ago
How come none of the righteous Republicans are calling people out for this? So it is okay to throw dildos at players because they are gay, but heaven forbid if I gay person wants to raise a kid, it would be inappropriate.
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u/Mr_Donatti 13d ago
Dude definitely is the guy shifting around at the 7/11 counter, asking for scratchies and pall malls
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u/mercutio1 13d ago
A “Beavis and Butt-Head” fan allegedly pulled the crude stunt at a New York Liberty-Dallas Wings game at Barclays Center last week.
Hey, man. Let’s not besmirch Beavis and Butt-Head here. Let’s identify him as an Ohio State fan.
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u/addctd2badideas 13d ago
My guy is wearing a Beavis and Butt-Head shirt, not because of their seemingly stupid, yet biting commentary on society and pop culture, but because he wants to be as stupid as them without any of the lessons.
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u/tswaters 13d ago
"sought by NYPD" I'm gunna throw out a guess here and say if this happened at an NBA game, suspect is leaving the arena in cuffs, and clocking a lifetime ban.
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u/Mikejg23 12d ago
Charge him with whatever you want (assault, disturbing the peace whatever I'm not a lawyer), but this absolutely should not get him on the sex offender list. He did not specifically target the victim, I can't imagine she's gonna have actual trauma from this, it wasn't done with sexual intentions. To me putting this guy on a list would be the same thing as putting a drunk (man or women) peeing somewhat in public but mostly out of sight on a list. Intent and severity matter.
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u/ThroawayJimilyJones 12d ago
You can actually end up on the list by peeing outside. The threshold in US is kind of low
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u/FLIPSIDERNICK 12d ago
I’d say throwing a sexual pleasure device at anyone is grounds for sex offender list.
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u/Baman2113 13d ago
Can these dumbasses grow the fuck up dude? God damn I’m tired of being surround by the dumbest fucking people imaginable.
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u/Frosty_Foundation_89 13d ago
time to go to nba games and throw pocket pussies
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u/oldRedF0x 13d ago
Those things are expensive.
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u/Braided_Marxist Chicago Bulls 13d ago
Now you're a sex offender for life because you wanted to pull a stupid meme. FAFO dumbass.
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u/Senth99 13d ago
Dude is going to get charged for assault at most.
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u/Benjamminmiller 13d ago
Someone in Georgia got hit with an indecent exposure charge. I think it's pretty unlikely anyone ends up on a sex offender list for this though.
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u/crabby_taffy 13d ago
Atlanta game "He is charged with disorderly conduct, criminal trespassing, public indecency and indecent exposure. https://www.wrdw.com/2025/08/08/how-does-wnba-deal-with-sex-toy-throwers-what-know-about-arrests-security/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
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u/CokeDigler 13d ago
Dudes have to start having backbones around awful men. I don't believe for a second all these people doing this are going to games alone.
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u/ThrowawayIntensifies 13d ago
How do you fail to hit a basketball court with a dildo??
It has a handle on it and it should throw just like a German WWII grenade
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u/GreenAldiers Dallas Wings 13d ago
They wanna talk shit about the players in the WNBA, but this is what happens when one of them actually tries to throw something.
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u/chasingit1 13d ago
Clearly an idiotic move that should never be tried by anyone.
It seems kind of weird though that they are treating these suspects like they are searching for the Boston Strangler. Like what if they threw a beer can or a pizza box. Would there be such a manhunt then?!….
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u/dsswill 13d ago
No, but it’s a sex toy at an all ages event and being thrown at female athletes with clear sexist intent (I’ve never seen sex toys thrown on the field/court/ice at men’s sports), and inadvertently hitting children. It’s very different to a pizza box both in intent and effect.
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u/GreenAldiers Dallas Wings 13d ago
Watch out friend. There's a lot of dorks here who will be more than happy to inform you that Tom Brady has dildo's thrown at him by Bills fans once... So this is totally ok! Just thought you should be prepared lol.
It's not like a football stadium has a much larger field and no on-court seating. And it's not like football stadiums are known for rowdy and sometimes violent behavior (something you almost never see WNBA fans take part in). So just remember, it's ok to throw sex toys at women, because one time some people did it to Tom Brady. /s
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u/BlueOmicronpersei8 13d ago
The Beavis and Butthead shirt with the Ohio State hat are just perfect.
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u/toxiamaple 13d ago
We are working closely with local and federal law enforcement to pursue all appropriate actions — including arrest and prosecution with felony charges where applicable — against anyone engaged in this conduct or otherwise involved in sponsoring this reckless and unacceptable behavior.”
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u/Intelligent-Sugar940 13d ago edited 13d ago
Someone explain to me how they can't locate the culprit in am arena full of cameras and spectators? If this was the NBA, they would have been delt with.
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u/AssaultMonkey150 13d ago
Dumb way to be on a list for life