Behave in Public!!!

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By now we’ve all seen the footage of the woman who went a little nuts at a Phillies-Marlins game.

A home run ball reached the seats in the outfield and it was bouncing around in an empty seat.

A man ran one section over and picked up the ball just before the woman was about to pick it up. The happy man ran back to his seat and handed the ball to his young son, but the woman was right there.

Screaming in the guy’s face.

Big brother is watching!

The man let the woman have the ball just so she’d get the hell away from him and his son.

The fallout was that the Phillies and Marlins stepped up and gave the kid a signed bat and their own ball.

The woman?

She has been absolutely vilified!

I saw last night that there is already a Halloween costume that shows the ‘Karen’ Phillies fan.

There was a rumor going around that said she was about to be fired from her job. 

(I didn’t investigate it all that much).

Yet we see story after story about people going nuts in public only to be outed by social media and then destroyed.

I have mixed feelings about all this.

Yes, you should act better, be more compassionate, and all that, but the woman (as wrong as she was) just reacted badly.

She wanted the ball.

She thought she had it.

The man swooped in and got there first.

Perhaps if she’d stopped and considered everything she would’ve acted differently….

…instead, she simply reacted badly.

She made it even worse by flipping off the camera.

She’s famous now and I doubt very much that she’s done little but cry since she got home from the game.

Her punishment for a huge moment of weakness may be a tad harsh. She lived a life of anonymity for all her years, and now millions of people have seen her at her worst and have judged her and convicted her.

Not defending her actions.

She was wrong, but it probably shouldn’t destroy her life.

She didn’t shoot the guy!

Ah well.

There is a moral to the story…

…there are cameras everywhere.

Calm down, think it through, and let it go…

…or it might just obliterate your life.

All for a $12 baseball.

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