Brawl in Kindergarten graduation instigated by disparaging L

[Basketball Fan]

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Two grown-up Laker fans fight about a Facebook comment

By Trey Kerby

In these all-too-short lives that we lead there are certain things worth fighting for. You know what I'm talking about — love, freedom, the right to party, getting zinged by a television host — the real big-ticket items. Coming to fisticuffs over such issues is totally understandable and often justified.

To that inscrutable list of fightable offenses we must add another important concern that lives deep in all of our hearts — taking on people who disagree with you on the Internet. This, truly, is the final frontier. As Beatriz Valenzuela of the Victorville Daily Press reports, two adults in California are doing some important work to ensure these disputes do not go unpunished.

A disparaging remark on Facebook about the Los Angeles Lakers sparked Wednesday's brawl involving some 20 adults at a local kindergarten graduation, according to one participant.

"This all started because of a Facebook comment between this other woman and my grandmother about the Lakers," said Queiona Burt, 31, one of the women arrested following a brawl that broke out at a recent Puesta del Sol Elementary School kindergarten graduation. "But I want to apologize to the school and the community and say this is not what I'm about. I was trying to defend myself."

Thank you, kind souls. As a human who spends the majority of his days making basketball chatter on the World Wide Internet Superhighway, I appreciate the effort to ensure that hater-stomping becomes widely accepted around the globe. Thank you. Thank you so much.

On the other hand, this is a grown-up fighting a grandma about something that happened on Facebook. This is not a Jay and Silent Bob movie that we are talking about, but real life. A real life that has flesh-and-blood fights about the Lakers because of Facebook. Five years ago, if I had come back from the future and told you this story, you wouldn't even understand it, mostly because your mind would be blown by all the advances made in time traveling technology in just half of a decade.

Nonetheless, I think this is a really good approach to solving disagreements online. In fact, starting this weekend I will begin a three-week tour to confront anyone who doesn't think Brad Miller(notes) is the best goateed backup center in the NBA. Watch your back

[Pablo Escobar]

Pathetic a fight over facebook really?

[Gek]

This is a problem, why?

[Mamba Venom]

Grandmas and internet drama

Thats how you know the internet has been around for a while.