Five stabbed outside Dodger Stadium after game

 

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A man is accused of stabbing five people outside Dodger Stadium in what police said was a dispute about the sale of counterfeit T-shirts following a game between the Dodgers and St. Louis Cardinals.

 

The fight broke out Sunday after private security guards hired to crack down on vendors selling unlicensed Dodgers merchandise approached a group of vendors, police Lt. Ruben Delatorre said.

 

One of about 15 vendors began ``slashing at people'' with a knife as fans left the stadium, Delatorre said. The unidentified man fled in a black vehicle. Police were investigating.

 

Dodgers spokesman Josh Rawitch said it was an ``unfortunate incident.''

 

One of the three guards was stabbed in the shoulder and another guard was stabbed in the stomach, police said. Two vendors also were stabbed, one in the stomach and the other in the back, puncturing a lung, Delatorre said.

 

The four injured men were taken to a hospital and were in stable condition. Another vendor was stabbed in the hand but was not hospitalized.

 

The guards, who were not in uniform, did not carry weapons, Officer Jason Lee said.

 

Three vendors were arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and each held on $35,000 bail, Lee said.

 

The guards were hired by SportService, a division of Delaware North Companies, which has a contract to sell official Dodger merchandise at the park.

Hopefully this will lead to a crackdown on unauthorized street vendors.

Hopefully this will lead to a crackdown on unauthorized street vendors.

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Why would you be in favor of it? Obviously the idiot who started slashing the guys deserves to be put away but I'm in favor of "unauthorized street vendors". It's ridiculous to pay the prices the team charges for merchandise.

Because they clog the exit ways of every stadium

Naturally, I don't condone the sale of illegal merchandise -- in the premises of Dodger Stadium or anywhere else.

 

However one could argue that the street vendors outside of Wrigley Field are as much a part of the experience as the folks selling seats on their rooftops across the street.

 

Just a thought.

How about we blame the psycho resposible for the stabbing rather than the merchandise he was selling? The whole "K-Mart bullets" way of thinking is nuts. The t-shirts cannot be blamed for the stabbing.

Because they clog the exit ways of every stadium

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I think the thousands of people trying to exit at once tends to clog the exits more than the vendors.

 

Call me crazy, but I like the unauthorized vendors and ticket scalpers. They add some flavor to the game. Part of the experience of going to the ball park is getting harassed by these guys on your way in, see how ridiculously expensive the merchandise is once inside the stadium and then decide it's smarter to buy it on your way out.

stabbing = bad

cheaper fake merchandise = not bad

didn't something like this happen out there a year ago?

 

some fan got murdered or beat up or something...

It's ridiculous to pay the prices the team charges for merchandise.

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I picked up a 2003 WS t-shirt at from the official Marlins store in PPS for a grand total of $3.