Slugger puts out eye with hot dog, Royals sued. Film at 11.
 

Thats freaking reeruned

actually I have to say, as far as these things go, this seems pretty legitimate.

No joke.

That entire thing is ****ing idiotic anyway. MLB games are a joke inbetween innings. I'm embarrassed every time I see them launch hotdogs or run around dressed up as mustard. So dumb.

The guy who was playing Slugger last year (and since the Slugger mascot has been around) was fired this offseason. Wonder if this is why?

25 K? Thats it? id sue for more than that, shit.

ok ok i know its the royals but still

If Slugger can sling a hotdog hard enough to put an eye out the Royals need to sign him to a player contract now!!!!!!!!!!
Looks like a good #3 man in the rotation to me.

I agree.. I could understand with an air gun, but his hand? Come on.. he needs to be in the rotation lmao.

In related news.... Kyle Farnsworth has been relegated back to the bullpen due to the signing of a new mystery pitcher that the team says was already with the organization, but in a non-baseball capacity. No news yet as to the identity of the newly signed pitcher who is expected to be added to the rotation right away.

Well, I have to give the guy props for only asking for what he deserves, 25K. Though I do have to say, blinding a man in one eye seems like it could be worth a hell of a lot more. I know it would significantly change my life style, and/or capabilities.

Either way, this is pretty ****ed up.

ROFLROFL Rick Vaughn??

I don't know.. this just sounds like Horseshit... the only thing making me believe it might be legit is he is only asking for 25k..

I mean.. I couldn't blind a guy with a hot dog if I was trying! how does that happen!?

Sidd Finch

I could understand if it was some chick bitching, you know......

Unless the dude was gay...NTTATWWT.

Maybe that is why he's only suing for 25k?:doh!:

LMAO

What's the proper way to throw hotdogs into the stands?

Are we sure the guy wasn't just blinded when he looked at the lineup?

Well, maybe it wasn't actually a hot dog that put his eye out. LMAO

perhaps he was blind before he got there... an now he's using this as an excuse to get 25 grand and not have it questioned... assuming they (the Royals) would be more than happy to give him 25k to shut up and not take them to court.. where they could lose more.....

wonder if the cops tazed him.. Epic Beard Guy style...


^neither is a serious comment... lets just get that outta the way

TMZ is just getting that off the pleadings. Every court has damage limits to get into that court. That "over 25K" is probably a pleading designed to get into the venue the plantiff wants. For example, to be eligible for federal trial courts usually you have to plead damages in excess of 50K.

Bottom line, the plaintiff probably will ask for more, but hasn't yet determined the exact damages they will seek at this point in the process.

ROFL

"Bitch, you got your weiner in my eye!"

"Oh, yeah, miss thang? Well, YOU got your eye on my weiner!"

"Hey! Two great tastes that taste great together!"

Taking a cue from SeaWorld, the Royals did warn the audience at the start of the game that the first 12 rows may be struck with a wiener.

At some point Darwin's theory needs to kick in.

What a coincidence, I think Tiger Woods warned all the women in the first row of the gallery of the same thing. :D

Slugger isn't as bad as KC Wolf. KC Wolf is a DICKKK. He shoots t-shirts out of that gun right point blank into the second row.

Poz list of oddities that only happens to the royals has to grow larger now.

make the bad man stop, mommy!

"What happened to your eye?"

"I was stabbed with a wiener."

God, you gotta be a pussy to sue for this. And he claims he also got cataracts from this. ....yeah, cataracts.
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Sluggerrr is the only Royal who isn't afraid to move somebody off the plate.

Damn, it. You can't just can't do anything fun these days without there being a lawsuit and ruining it.

This lawsuit looks like BS to me. The defense will be "assumption of risk" I would think. If this guy has been to a Royals game before, he knew that this happened, or if not, he should have known that baseballs (or bats) were likely to fly in the stands. If you go to a baseball game, get your damn hands up, Jesus.

you can get cataracts as a result of a detached retina.

If he had been hit by a ball or bat, I would agree with the assessment that those things are to be expected. What shouyld be expected is having someone sling a hotdog at you.

what a weanie

"Have you seen my wiener?"

There's no way he developed it as a result of a hot dog hitting him in the eye. Fesco(sp) on 610 was talking about it this morning and he had an eye doctor and a person who deals with eye glasses confirm that there's no way this guy could have gotten cataracts from a weiner hitting him in the eye.

Hell, for a hot dog to have any type of damage, it would have to travel very ****ing fast.

I bet stuart scott wants to kick this pussy's ass right now.
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can you imagine all the jokes this dude's going to hear for the rest of his life?

if it was me, and i could get 25k out of it, i'd laugh my ass off w/the rest of them.
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A wayward wiener earned Coomer the nickname "One Eye"

25k is a lot...but its not really worth this.

The fine print on the back of tickets protects the royals from losing. They're going to win and the guy will have to live the rest of his life as the guy who got injured by a hot dog.
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seriously, i agree. that you shouldn't get the cash.

i'm just saying i hope mr. iwasbeanedbyaweiner has a good sense of humor, cause it's coming.
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The gay jokes the guy has coming will be epic.
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I guess it's karma, I start this thread then this afternoon I get my eyeball punctured by a piece of ice in the office parking lot.

http://www.innvista.com/health/ailme...l/detached.htm

complications can include cataracts.

As far as what could have caused it, I was seriously in the office parking lot after lunch today looking at some equipment and had a small 1/2" flake of ice fell off the equipment and hit my eye. Doc says I have a puncture in my eyeball.

http://www.ozarksfirst.com/story/sup...602CqYD0x4V5QA

Supreme Court to Decide if KC Royals Mascot was Negligent in Hot Dog-Throwing Incident

A Royals fan who claims he suffered a detached retina when Sluggerrr the Mascot hit him in the face with a hot dog has taken his suit all the way to the Missouri Supreme Court.

Sports fan John Coomer is suing the Kansas City Royals for $25,000 on a claim of negligence. His attorney, Robert Tormohlen tells the Supreme Court Sluggerrr knew better, and had been trained on how to "throw the hot dogs lightly," and "was well aware that if he winged a hot dog at someone, he could seriously injure that person."

Judge Richard Teitelman asks if Coomer should have anticipated the risk, seeing that Coomer has been to more than 175 games. Judge Laura Denvir-Stith continued that line of questioning, pointing out that sports fans attend games not only for the game itself, but for the spectacle that comes with it.

The incident was reported in 2009; a jury ruled against Coomer in 2011, saying Coomer assumed the risk of a hot-dog-related injury when he bought his ticket to the game. Tormohlen says there's a difference between a hot dog and a t-shirt … he says the foil-wrapped dogs are essentially four-and-a-half ounce projectiles.

According to court documents, the suit alleges that "Sluggerrr lost control of his throw or was reckless with his throw, and threw the hotdog directly into the Plaintiff."

Kansas City Royals Baseball Corporation attorney Scott D. Hofer said the trial court correctly responded to Coomer's claims. He said Coomer acknowledged that he saw the motion of the throw, people cheering in his section and looked away.

"In this day and age, the 21st century, there's no way you don't know that these types of activities were taking place," Hofer says.

The Supreme Court will hand down an opinion at a later date.

Cataracts already-lol It will be dismissed and hopefully the Royals will sue his ass so others won't do this type of thing again.

Hot dog winging ROFL

how did I not hear about this when it happened?

Only $25K for a detached retina? He'd be luck to get 1/2 that before expenses. It's not worth looking like a dead beat for.

IIRC, The Court of Appeals ruled for a new trial based on an error in jury instructions. I am surprised that the Supreme Court would hear the case, but there must be something about the Court of Appeals opinion that was debatable.

Missouri has Circuit Courts and Associate Circuit Courts. $25K is kind of a jurisdictional maximum for Associate Circuit cases.

In a personal injury case, the petition could state damages as at least $25K without asking for a specific amount, just to have it start as a circuit court case.

But did he eat the Hot Dog?