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Cops Arrest “Softball Guy” During Co-ed Game, Allegedly Making Threats to Get Gun, “Slaughter Everyone”

You all know “Too Serious Softball Guy” don’t you? He’s usually the one at friendly company picnic games dressed in full uniform and eye black.  He only uses that customized bat he paid big bucks for on the Internet, and gets mad at you if you give “less than 150%” to the game . . . any game . . . that involves keeping score. “Too Serious Softball Guy” isn’t a bad guy, just usually annoying and only infrequently violent.

Not sure what set this guy (Thor Theis) off, but likely it was a close call at the plate, or maybe someone drinking a beer in the outfield. Whatever it was, he got crazy enough for someone to call the cops.

On the plus side, maybe he can earn a starting spot on the prison softball team? They were 16-1 last year with two escapes.

Details from KIMT:

A 22-year-old Mason City man is in Cerro Gordo County Court after allegedly hitting another player with his baseball glove, swinging a bat at others and saying he was going to get a gun and slaughter them all.

Thor Theis has been charged with disorderly conduct, simple assault and first-degree harassment which is an aggravated misdemeanor. The incident unfolded at a co-ed softball game Sunday night at the Frederick Hanford ball diamonds at 824 23rd St. S.W. No one was injured

Softbal Player, Hit in Face by Ball, Sues Owner of Diamond

“I lost it in the sun” is a common excuse used by baseball and softball players the world over. But can it be a legal defense? A Canadian softball player, George Black, 53, is suing the owners of a baseball field saying they should have erected some kind of “sun screen” that would have prevented him from getting hit in the face by a pop fly.

Mr. Black was playing third base in a men’s slo-pitch recreational game in Hamilton on May 19, 2004, when the batter hit a line drive right at him during the eighth inning. Mr. Black, a long-time player, lost sight of the ball in the setting sun.  “It hit me in my index finger and my middle finger, crushing the index finger and fracturing the middle finger,” he recalled. “It cut me in my eyebrow for 20 stitches, and then it drove my glasses into my face and now my eye is traumatized so the right pupil is much larger than the left.”

Mr. Black filed a lawsuit, but not against the batter or any other player. He sued the owner of the diamond, steel giant ArcelorMittal Dofasco.  Mr. Black alleged Dofasco should have erected a sun screen at the diamond to protect players. The company considered putting a screen there months earlier but failed to do so, he added.  He also alleged the company failed to inspect the diamond or “warn [Mr. Black] of the dangers of the sun at the particular time of day.”

Slo-pitch player sues field owner after being struck by ball – The Globe and Mail

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