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Every now and then I stumble across a news story that really makes me want to laugh. And this is it.
During the singing of God Bless America, a man wanted to go to the toilet (why do Americans call the loo everything but a toilet – my favourites is the restroom – I don’t go there to rest..) but was told by the police that he had to wait until the song was over, and when he objected, they threw him out. Of course, that’s his side of the story. The police say he was drunk, standing on a chair and yelling out naughty words (As if “god bless America” isn’t naughty enough)
Regardless of who’s right – I couldn’t believe that the baseball club actually wanted people to stand still while a song was sung, so went off to find if this was the case, and guess what, it is. The Yankee Stadium restricts the movement of patrons at the bottom of the 7th (some strange baseball term) while God Bless America is sung. They have ushers holding chains to stop people moving about, police stand at the bottom and stare into the crowd. [SOURCE]
Its more or less at this point that I started laughing. My merriment was delivered even more fuel when I read that some consider this a constitutional affront. “My rights have been violoated”. I mean really, what a crock of shit. The whole thing. Could you imagine the crowd standing at the MCG (Melbourne Cricket Ground) and singing along to God Bless Australia (there is such a song) [SOURCE] You can bet your bottom dollar that if the MCC even tried that Aussies everywhere would be dropping their daks and hanging a brown eye (oh, go google it)
Anyway – some great comments [here] on this blog.