Anyone who plays pickup basketball knows there are some players who take it too seriously. Ball is life, of course, but no one should enter a pickup game OK with hurting another player. There are also, however, some players who are way too sensitive. Fouls inevitably occur; if you're playing hoops, you're going to get hacked at some point.
Things boiled over in a pickup game that resulted in one offended party actually calling the police after he felt he was fouled too hard. The story spread after a witness shared a Twitter account of the two men with the cops.
Today for the first time in my life...I experienced someone call the police because they got fouled hard in basketball. pic.twitter.com/9E8lp9fmwP
Apparently, the man in the black (on the right) got screened by the man in the arm sleeves, and he fell down. It appears they were playing pickup in a commercial fitness center.
It was an aggressive screen and dude fell lol
It seems the screen wasn't even that bad.
Won’t even a foul for real. He fell from an aggressive screen
I know I will never respect him ever
It's a silly story, but let it be a lesson to us all: don't call the cops just because you get fouled in a pickup game, or you might end up going viral. Also: shout out to this Twitter user for providing some basketball entertainment during a down time in the calendar, when all we have is Summer League.
