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“ i dont want to have to be facing someone. eye contact with another human being? what next? vocalization for the purpose of communication and/or social prose? this isn’t what i signed up. not my bart.

— Michael “MikeJ ‘Mike James’” Jagels on the possible implementation of longitudinal seating on San Francisco Bay’s BART transit system

Ron Artest at 11

“I remember when I used to play back home in the neighborhood there were always games like that. I remember one time, one of my friends, he was playing basketball and they were winning the game. It was so competitive, they broke off a piece of leg from a table and they threw it and it went right through his heart and he died right on the court.

So I’m accustomed playing basketball really rough.”

-Ron Artest from A wild and crazy night: Kobe gets tough, Artest gets angry and the NBA has some decisions to make

“A 19-year-old basketball player from Queens was fatally stabbed with a broken-off table leg today after a fight broke out during a basketball tournament, the police said.”

Player Dies in Stabbing at Basketball Game from a 1991 New York Times article