Listen to your father

On Monday, 17 year old Steve Consalvi was attending a Phillies game vs. the St. Louis Cardinals presumably with his friends when he decided to call his father at home before the 7th inning to get his thoughts on whether or not he should run on to the field at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia. Wayne Consalvi told the Philadelphia Inquirer "He said, 'Dad, can I run on the field?' I said, 'I don't think you should, son,'"Steve ran on the field and got arrested but what everyone is talking about is whether or not he deserved to be tasered.

The world we live in now, on the heels of the foiled NYC bomb plot, we just don’t know what is going on in people’s heads. Most likely he ran onto the field just to get on “SportsCenter” and the 11 o’clock news, but police proceeded as if he could have tried to attack a player from one of the two teams, which is exactly how they should have acted. Not unlike the 2007 bomb scare at Logan by a MIT student wearing electronics on their sweatshirt, there comes a time for teens when they need to be aware that pranks can have serious consequences. While this kind of event might have led to copycats, maybe some might refrain from doing this due to what happened to Steve.