The Vig

Sitting in a quiet corner before the Winter Hawks game last night, I watched two of the Rose Quarter’s finest relieve a grade schooler of his toy Star Wars gun.  It was costume night at the Coliseum and the kid was dressed as a Storm Trooper.

His dad protested mightily.  Mascot Night was just a week ago and they had adults dressed as Storm Troopers walking around with all manner of armament.  Not once were they hassled.  A week later, it’s an 8-year-old who poses a threat.

I shared the story with a couple of folks near me.  We all laughed and shrugged it off.  That was until Winter Hawk mascot Tom-A-Hawk came out about halfway through the first period dressed as a cowboy villain.  As he worked his way around the crowd, he came upon the Storm Trooper kid and…wait for it…pulled a toy revolver on him!  My neighbors and I were shocked to say the least.  Apparently the rules didn’t apply to the team mascot.

This isn’t a Winter Hawks issue.  It’s a facilities management issue.  Shame on them for not allowing an 8-year-old to be a kid for a night.  I wonder how the issue would have been resolved had it been a Blazer game and not a second-rate tenant.