NY Baseball Fan Killed Mother As Team Lost : Prosecutors

[THUNDER HANDS]

Source: Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York man has been charged with beating his mother to death with a barbell after losing his temper while watching a baseball game on television.

Michael Anthony, 25, was watching the New York Mets lose a game on Saturday from his home in the borough of Queens when he began furiously banging on the walls, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said in a statement on Monday.

His father Fred Fischman shouted at him to stop, but Anthony punched him in the face and threw him to the ground, according to the criminal charges.

When Anthony's mother, Maria Fischman, 61, tried to intervene, prosecutors said he stabbed her once in the head with a knife before chasing her into a bedroom where he struck her several times with the 20 pound (9 kilogram) barbell.



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[truthisfreedom]

1. Sounds like the dude had much more serious problems than baseball rage.

[sniffa]

2. it couLda been worse for him

he couLd have been a yankees fan.

[Twillig]

3. He coulda been fired from Van Halen. n/t

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

4. Oh boyee.

Is that ever an ugly story. I can tell you that Michael is very happy.

Eddie? Trainwreck.

[Endangered Specie]

5. He ought to be dragged into the street and shot.

:nuke:

[rpannier]

7. Agreed

100000% agreed

[ProudDad]

10. Why?

Wouldn't that be doing the same thing he did? :shrug:

[Chomskyite]

6. The Mets?

What is he complainin' about? Aren't they first in their division?

[Captain Hilts]

12. Yes, he had BIGGER problems. Still, as a Mets fan, I'm a little embarrassed. nt

[PittPoliSci]

15. probably lost to the pirates...

i don't know if that justifies violence, but i'd probably be upset losing to those bums.

[The Sushi Bandit]

8. Why is this on DU?

this sad post is not on topic

[THUNDER HANDS]

11. not everything on DU is political

plus, this is just plain interesting.

[closeupready]

9. There has to be more to this story than losing a temper.

What an awful story. I don't know why I even opened it up. :(

[rocktivity]

13. A barbell? Hope he wasn't taking steroids.

During the Mets-Orioles 1969 World Series, a New York City man watching the game beat his wife to death because she wanted to change the channel.

:cry:
rocknation

[ProudDad]

14. There's no matricide in baseball!!

:blush:

[pinniped]

16. If it were really baseball related, he would have done this last season....

when the Mets lost in the 2006 NLCS.

Well, maybe he was watching alone last season.