Generally speaking, poor fan behavior at golf tournaments involves shorting the nanny-with-a-master's-degree when arriving home from sunset drinks at the clubhouse. But even golf has now fallen to the craze that's sweeping the sporting world, which is for fans to become annoying enough to be shot with thousands of volts of electricity producing neuromuscular incapacitation.
While we wait for this to apply in Spencer Pratt's world, here's what went down at The Players Championship on Friday in Ponte Vedra, according to the NY Daily News:
A drunken golf fan got the shock of his life Friday when cops Tasered him after he refused to stop heckling Tiger Woods on the 11th hole of The Players Championship.
Travis Parmelee, 36, of Jacksonville, Fla., was charged with disorderly intoxication and resisting arrest, officials said.
Security guards at the Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., tournament told Parmelee to stop yelling several times before calling the sheriff, who dispatched deputies to make an arrest.
Capt. Dave Messenger said officers attempted to calm Parmelee down, but he became more combative. When they tried to take Parmelee into custody, he resisted - and was Tasered once.
Messenger said Parmelee had been drinking.
You don't say! Of course, Parmelee sounds like he deserved a good jolt, but, then, did he really?
Is Tiger-hecklin' enough to prompt authorities to zap Parmelee with an electroshock weapon Amnesty Internation claims is reponsible for 334 American deaths between 2001 and 2008? Any more than, say, a 17-year-old kid rushing the outfield for innocent kicks as others have before him?
No, but if only because Parmelee didn't get in the best Tiger jab of the day: Out of Bounds reports that a small boy snarked "Tiger, say so long to No. 1," as the golfer passed him yesterday. Sure, it's not that original, but he does get points for being so very young and accurate. Later when the kid's an obnoxious Jets fan, it won't be so cute, so here's a bonus point for knowing his window -- and for being too short to ride the lightning.
