Penalty for raising tetra higher than player station?

[Steve W]

Stu, Ron was also the head ref at Detroit. He called the same way. Was it good, NO. There is NO penalty in the rules that is given for "breaking the plane". I fully agree that IF there is a safety issue deal with it by clearing the area and shutting down the robot. Once the safety issue has been taken care of allow the teams to resume playing. To shut down a robot is a major "penalty" for which there is no rule. They were getting silly with some refs concentrating on the tetra and the line more than the pushing and ramming that was going on. If they were 1/4" some were being called. This in anyones mind is not a safety issue.

Enforce the rules as written. Don't have refs make their own interpretations. Again shutting down a robot is a big penalty. Not shutting down the team pushing is even worse. FIRST needs to address this situation before it gets worse.