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Originally posted by PM_Mama00
So I guess Cleveland and the other place it happened.... well their fans are hoodlums too, right? 
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Don't roll your eyes - you might just be correct!
According to USAToday, the other two times Artest claimed to be pelted with garbage from the stands occured in Cleveland and . . . Detroit.
Some are taking the wrong bent at this (mostly JeN, is that the correct spelling, btw?) - no one said AGDee was a hoodlum, no one even claimed the Phildo was a hoodlum . . . just that these Detroit fans are why Detroit gets a bad rep as a sports town (excepting hockey, which is a different story all together).
Also - I'm sure the first guy will get some money, but realistically it doesn't look like he took too much in the way of injuries. The guy knocked out by the chair has a stronger case, but I'm unsure why he's suing Ron Artest for a chair being thrown - in my industry, we call this "shitsticking" (ie "thow the shit at the money, see what sticks" - large-scale lawsuits almost unilaterally work under this assumption), and it seems somewhat f-ed up.
Realistically, let's assign some blame to the situation that incited this - the ENTIRE situation, not just the rich side of it. Fans were throwing haymakers, too - fans who had no right or responsibility to be engaged.
It's a full-blown fiasco now - it reflects badly on everyone. Even fans of the Pistons, like it or not.