Happy about Field problems & people management & severe weather @ Championship

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Grim Tuesday

Our drive team was backstage Einstein (backup bots) and witnessed a couple of these doofuses walk up to Dean Kamen and ask them and I quote "How much would I have to pay to get up on the field and flip the bird to all of America". Kamen replied "$250,000", and these guys actually got out their wallets and started counting. When they started hassling Dean, a couple burly querers escorted them out.

When they told me this, I didn't believe that anyone at a FIRST event would do such a thing. Now we know why these guys got let in. Though we can now laugh it off as a bunch of idiots, I'm glad it isn't a bunch of dead idiots that wandered into the path of a tornado.

Dean was down on the field trying to get ahold of all the problems with the field and these two jerk in Brewers jerseys got past me chanting "1114! 1114!" and got all the way to the scorers table and bumped into Dean. I thought at first they were part of the show but after concluding they weren't me and my crew started to remove them. One guy got really belligerent and started woofing at us "DON'T TOUCH ME! DON'T YOU TOUCH ME! WHY CAN'T I BE DOWN HERE LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE? He starts talking trash to the Team Que trainer for FIRST David Ferreira and Dave says "Let's go talk about it outside" and he, me and Tom Nader walk him and his buddy towards the door. He keeps talking crap about "calling his lawyer" and all that and we shove them out he door. After that the weather issues started. Later I hear that they came back in and were wandering the pits messing around with team's stuff in the pits. Pit Adman confronted them and called the cops and the idiots got arrested.

[tdnader]

It was GREAT working with you Ed ... Again!!!!! Glad we were able to keep a lid on those two fools. I am sure they had a great time in the cross bar motel. Hope to see you at one or all of the Michigan offseason Events.

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by tdnader

It was GREAT working with you Ed ... Again!!!!! Glad we were able to keep a lid on those two fools. I am sure they had a great time in the cross bar motel. Hope to see you at one or all of the Michigan offseason Events.

You and Dave did an awesome job keeping a cool head with those guys. I was worried that one dude was gonna deck Peter but Dave stepped in just in time. It was a great handling of a bad situation that truly hope I never see again at a FIRST event.
I'll be at MARC for sure with my team in tow.