[pfreivald]

At CMP in 2010 there was a very loud, very abusive woman saving seats (like, eighty of them). She accosted my brother and his wife and screamed hideous, vulgar abuse (think words that start with F and C, combined in some admittedly creative ways, at the top of her lungs) at them because they had the audacity to sit down to watch one of our matches. I tried to explain to her that saving seats was not allowed anyway, but she just turned her vitriol on me--and I had to get back to the pits, so she went back to them. His intent was to ignore her until she ran out of steam, but she kept going for literally minutes--which is a terrifically long time in this sort of circumstance. He finally (in a soft voice) said that he felt threatened, and that his training teaches him to kill threats.

She left him alone after that, but sheesh, it shouldn't have been necessary. Were she a man, it likely would have become a physical altercation. (Yay, sexism/chivalry!)