There should only be legal charges if a heavy object hits someone else, like in this case.
For the rest, lifetime banning from all future major league sports games, basketball, football, baseball, etc. would probably be enough to end the stupid trend.
If that doesn’t do it, then like someone else mentioned, blacklisted at Ticketmaster would be enough.
I don’t think calling the cops is needed unless there’s physical abuse.
Or just don’t be an idiot and throw objects in crowded public places?
If someone throws a dildo at a basketball game in New York in 2025, how are they going to be banned from a baseball game in California in 2035? Will they somehow be flagged when they try to buy a ticket online? Will they be stopped at the gate when some security guard recognizes them from being banned 10 years ago on the other side of the country? Do we need a new government agency to track professional sports dildo throwers? Or perhaps a Federal Dildo Throwing Registry?
A massive expansion of government oversight is called for here. There should also be a comprehensive investigation into dildos, dongs, and dong-like devices, with a path to prohibition of any long cylindrically shaped items.
National Association of Dildo Sports (the NADS) will have to provide rules, regulations, and strap on a structure for competition and records.
Obviously, there will be a ring toss event.
You make a good point.
I think the person you were replying to was also making good points.
Maybe there’s a way to pull this off without being overly intrusive or heavy handed.
If you get arrested or otherwise removed from a game, your ID should be scanned and uploaded to a vendor database that could be used league wide at ticket booths and concessions.
Paying online with a credit card for your next game tickets? Perhaps a flag triggers because your name and zip code was flagged. Going to a game across the country? Perhaps you go buy a beer, and when the vendor scans your ID, the red flag comes up and you get escorted out of the place.
Not having a beer, or something that requires getting ID’ed??? Perhaps you’ve found the vulnerability in my system but also, maybe you’re not drunk now, so less likely to throw dildos.
It’s not perfect.
Presumably WNBA has some VMS with facial recognition, they would register the person and flag them for alarm/ notify staff to card them.
Should have just hit her with a car, she ded, he free.
Should women start throwing smallest sized condoms at the mnba?
Lol, MNBA
Do any of the mnba players endorse the dildo throwing?
Don’t know, don’t care. I just think it would be funny.
Charles Burgess, 32, from Dayton, Ohio, was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly throwing an object at the Dallas Wings v New York Liberty game on 5 August, New York police said. The object hit a 12-year-old girl, and Burgess was charged with two counts of assault. It wasn’t immediately clear whether Burgess had an attorney.
A grown-ass man acting like a teenager doing a senior prank, presumably because he wanted to look cool in front of the other misogynist dipshits who think a woman’s value is tied to their sexuality, is peak 2025.
Apparently the people who started this whole thing were doing it as a publicity stunt promoting a crypto coin. So if it wasn’t already bad enough…
I’ve heard that too, but I refuse to buy it. They’re just misogynistic losers looking for their 15 minutes to exploit. It’s nice to see consequences though.
You say that as if those are mutually exclusive categories.
You’re not wrong.
Both things can be true. In fact it is more than likely that cryptobros are misogynist dipshits.
I hope they throw the book at him as hard as he threw the dildo at that girl 😡
So this is what growing up watching youtube does to a generation…
Not sure why the downvotes. Social media, especially YT, platforms these horrible people that actively twisted a generation into complete assholes.
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The NBA should hand out lifetime bans for any ‘fans’ who pull this crap at WNBA games.
From all sports and events, not just the NBA/WNBA.
Or Ticketmaster blacklist them… That would probably be much worse haha
I think this would put an end to it.
Absolutely! It would never occur to anyone to have a friend buy the tickets instead.
The report said the Georgia man told police “this was supposed to be a joke and the joke [was] supposed to go viral.”
It’s nice to see many getting charged for doing this, and the articles about those charges being the thing going viral.
Idk if they stick or not but they should grill him with sexual harassment charges and make an example of him, this behavior needs to stop. No plea deal that drops those charges either.
That’s definitely the wrong angle. This isn’t a sex crime, the existence of dildos doesn’t harm children, it just makes adults panic when they have to explain them an age appropriate way. You just have to tell them some people think they’re funny, but a lot of people think it’s rude. It’s that easy
This guy threw a heavy object into a crowd that included children, and hit a child. That’s child endangerment, battery, and probably a half dozen other charges. Someone could’ve died
This is a violent crime, not a sex crime. These are both serious things, but they must not be confused
They’re choosing dildos for a reason. It is sexual harassment of the players. It is intending to demean the players. It’s no coincidence this shit started after the Union negotiations - men in Facebook comment sections were absolutely vile at the idea these women wanted to be paid fairly.
Sure, against the players you can call it sexual harassment. It’s sexist harassment at least. I’m not saying it isn’t vile. But that’s not the crime being prosecuted
Do you really want to lump throwing dildos in public along with raping children?
We’re in the Epstein files era. We need a nice, clear, black and white when it comes to sex crimes, especially against children.
Harassment does not equal raping children. They are both bad things, and they are both sex crimes. You are straw manning - notice how at no point in my comment did I mention children, not suggest that sexual harassment is equivalent to crimes against children or rape.
Do you also think these actions have no effect on the children watching? What lesson does it teach them - “women’s sport is such a joke that people think it’s funny to throw dildos at players?” How do you think a young girl who plays basketball might feel?
I’m not straw manning you, I’m not saying you equate these things together. I’m pointing out that we live in a post rule-of-law society.
If you call sex crime over this, it will cheapen the concept of sex crimes. It doesn’t matter if it’s technically true or not, we’re living in very dangerous times
The truth doesn’t matter anymore, crisp clear messaging does. You’re more likely to get dildos banned than the players protected at this point.
The fact that they’re dildos is extra disrespectful, but it’s not ok to throw anything in a stadium that could hurt someone
That has to be the message - they hurt a child, this is clearly way out of hand
You can also go after the league for not properly addressing an environment of sexual harassment… But that’s a separate issue. The WNBA has been extremely exploitative, you can’t fix that by going after the viewers
someone could have died.
How?
By getting hit by a dildo. That’s a solid object (even if it’s not hard), it doesn’t take much force to kill someone if you hit them just right
So scale it up to hundreds of people throwing them from above, from behind? It’s still not likely, but if you keep repeating this it’ll happen eventually
Would be nice. And then national coverage showing that POS as a registered xex offender.
That guy threw a dildo at a child, but I don’t really feel like it’s up there with people trying to rape em
I feel like the sex offender list should have teirs for really fucking stupid shit like this, people who get caught urinating in public, having sex in a car… and then people doing the real nasty shit?
Worse yet, register them as a Xexex offender.
So what about all the stuff that is shown to the public at Pride parades?
Seems like a slippery slope imo
Edit: I’ll be extremely clear, if you cheapen what sexual harassment means, it opens the door for bad actors to use it against things you probably don’t want to get labeled sexual harassment.
Easy one for ya.
Shown is not the same word as thrown
Ah yes that’s why if someone flashes you on the street it’s not sexual harassment.
Thanks for replying and solidifying my user note of ‘Pretends to be stupid for fun. Avoid.’
Bye.
I’m literally not you’re just refusing to see my point.
Bye 👋
Im pretty certain theres a big enough difference between a parade celebrating a sexual identity and a basketball game. Besides they’re already criminalizing the LGBT community, it’s not like that box hasn’t been opened, so the least we can do is prevent children at basketball games from getting hit with sex toys to hype up a scam currency.
Yes the difference is there. But if you’re giving a special significance to the dildo, be prepared for the jurisprudence to be twisted into something you really much don’t want.
Maybe don’t label it sexual harassment is all I’m saying.
Let’s not believe every hyperbole we read on the Internet
Media reports on the disturbances have tied the toy-throwings to a group involved in a related cryptocurrency meme coin.
There was a time when this would have surprised me. Not anymore
Neat, sounds to me like this was a crime for the benefit of a gang and everyone even tangentially involved should have all their assets seized and get imprisoned for things members of their group did whether they were directly involved or not
Yes, a crypto group has claimed credit for the fad trying to promote a meme coin. Talk about absolute dirt bags.
Seems like a somewhat valid use for RICO, moreso that what it’s usually used for…
Charles Burgess, 32, from Dayton, Ohio, was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly throwing an object at the Dallas Wings v New York Liberty game on 5 August, New York police said. The object hit a 12-year-old girl
Idiot.
She’s 12 and we don’t know if she saw it coming towards her, wtf bro?
I think they’re calling Burgess the idiot.
funny
They should take it as a huge honor since the last dildo throwing fad was directed at Tom Brady, arguably the greatest athlete to dominate their sport in the history of sports. These dildos must be paying homage to the WNBA greats. /s
Facepalm. Now the girl would become gay and die from the covfefe-inducing vaccine!!!
That is just pathetic.
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When’s the give send go campaign?
Dude looks the part. Big time loser energy.
That’s pretty funny, but the title makes it seem like he specifically targeted the girl.
It looks more like he threw it as a prank for the athletes, and it just so happened to hit a young girl.
Except it’s not a prank, just shitty marketing stunts. For crypto trash of all things
https://19thnews.org/2025/08/wnba-dildos-meme-coin-misogyny/
No it’s pretty obvious that he wasn’t targeting the girl, we’re not saying he should be charged with various flavors of battery and sexual assault because we thought he meant it to hit her. And calling it just “a prank for the athletes” can fuck all the way off.
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Why is it funny? Because they do it exclusively at women’s sporting events?
I’m really curious to hear from people who think this is funny to find out why they think that.
Because dildos are funny and interrupting sporting events is hilarious.
I don’t care if it’s a women’s or men’s event.
Well, that’s the joke. They’re doing it exclusively to women athletes, so you’re saying you think that’s funny.
🥱
Arguing with you people is exhausting.
Keep believing whatever you want.
I literally just want to know what’s funny about it?
I know, right? It’s just like when people bring fleshlights to throw at NBA games because it’s a totally normal and not weird thing to do.
It’d be hilarious if people responded by doing that.
If you’re 10 years old, sure. Peak comedy.
Humor is subjective.
I’m sure you’d laugh at a lot of things that I’d consider childish and not funny.
Comedy is open to interpretation, but how you interpret it still says a lot about who you are.
It would probably put an end to the shenanigans quicker. Society seems to respond to shit when it starts to affect men (especially, rich) too, a little more promptly.
It doesn’t make it sound like he targeted the girl, it sounds like he was another idiot who thought he was the main character and wanted to mock women athletes.
He threw it to be an asshole. Pranks make everyone laugh.
Pranks make everyone laugh.
That’s most certainly not true.
Then it’s not a prank. It’s Being an assshole
Only reason people say otherwise is self appeasement or bad parents.
Not really, but believe whatever you want.
“Everyone laughing” is an unreachable metric.
No. I believe in facts. Fact is some one being an asshole, is an asshole, no matter what term you’d give them to hide under.
So. Again. He was being an asshole, not playing a prank.
Ok, buddy.
There’s not a single prank that everyone will laugh at, but keep believing what you want.
Sorry, just to drive the point further home: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practical_joke
No mention of laughter even being a factor. You can edit the article if you’d like to change that.
Also, this is a really good fucking prank:
Are you really this stupid or are you pretending? The point being made is that everyone INVOLVED IN THE PRANK should be laughing for it to be a prank. Try using your fucking head for three seconds.
Thus most practical jokes are affectionate gestures of humour and designed to encourage laughter.
So your issue is parentage then.
And if you act cruelly to one person simply so you and perchance another bystander can laugh at them, then I’d say you’re just proving the point, and you hang out with shitty people.
Is it? Or maybe you’re an asshole too…
throws heavy object into dense crowd of people
I didn’t mean to hit anyone, it was just a joke!
