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DA: Woman slashed when impatient Madonna fan gets mad
By adamg on Wed, 09/05/2012 - 10:00am
Updated: Authorities now say woman was cut by tap handle, not broken mug handle.
A Medford man is due for arraignment today for an incident at last night's Madonna concert, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Jeffrey Jansen, 37, was arrested at the Garden after, the DA's office days, he got so angry that a woman got served a beer before him at a concession stand that he smacked a beer-tap handle, which then smacked the woman in the face, cutting her, the DA's office says. Boston Police report:
According to the victim, as she was waiting to be served, she heard the suspect loudly state, "If you take her first, I swear to God I will pound someone's face in!"
The woman was taken to Mass. General for treatment of her facial lacerations, the DA's office says.
Innocent, etc.
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This is why we should have drinking licenses
It's clearly a privilege on par with driving in terms of the control and common sense necessary for both activities.
I have had many events ruined by beer
Went to a Sox game once and a guy spilled a beer on me.
Went to a concert at the garden and a guy spilled a beer on me. People were also smoking in there, not just tobacco mind you. It was a gross night.
Went to another concert at the garden (didn't learn my lesson I guess), and had beer spilled on my shoes.
In any case, if you're every lost in the middle of nowhere and I'm around, beer will be also.
In this guy's defense
He found himself at a Madonna concert but was prevented from gaining immediate access to alcohol.
+ 1,000,000
+1 doesn't do your comment justice
Anybody who has worked concession at The Garden
Knows how INCREDIBLY obnoxious the general public can get, especially when a group/mob mentality takes over, and alcohol and/or drugs are involved. Soccer moms and Canadian tourist become demonic when they aren't served their beer fast enough or there's issues with their I.D.
I don't understand
"He swatted a mug" and the handle broke off and cut a woman's face. Was this a glass mug? Where did he get that? The Garden doesn't serve drinks in mugs. Did he hit the woman with the mug in the face and break it? Or was the "beer handle" that broke off one of the beer tap handles that got broken in the scuffle?
Anyway,if this had been at a Bruins game the assailant would have been taken to MGH in much worse shape than the victim. A little vigilante justice from the fans in line would have seen to that.
Thanks for the update
So it was the tap handle. That must have been some "Brew"haha.
Something doesn't add up here...
The Herald is quoting him as saying this is a big misunderstanding and that he was arrested while carrying beers back to his seat. Could this be a case of mistaken identity? I happen to know this person and alcohol or not, this is EXTREMELY out of character for him. Very kind and soft spoken dude.
No pre-show serving?
(This is largely proposed in jest...)
If you go to a baseball game, the beer gets cut off towards the expected end of the game, and stays off, even if the the game goes into extra innings.
Clearly beer shouldn't be started until at least two hours after the expected start time of any Madonna concert!