Cleveland Cavaliers security stops a fan's court-storming before it even starts
The security crew for Cleveland Cavaliers home games at Quicken Loans Arena has had its fair share of run-ins with court-rushing fans over the past two seasons. In March 2013, an enterprising young man rushed the court to tell LeBron James to return to Cleveland as a free agent. This December, another fan told current Cavs star Kyrie Irving not to leave town. And just two weeks ago, another fan approached Kyrie before getting taken down by security. Apparently the crew is getting better at stopping fans before anything too dangerous can happen.
They're getting so good, in fact, that the latest planned court-storming was stopped before it could even start.
At around 7:55 local time, a fan sitting courtside tweeted that he would go on the court if he received 1000 retweets. He even added photos to prove it.
1000 retweets I'll go on the court pic.twitter.com/Z3Kp2cbzR8
— Scotty (@_GodsSoldier_10) March 18, 2014
As you can see, the tweet received some attention. It got close enough that our friend Scotty seemed to have embraced the idea of interrupting the contest.
Almost there #yolo
— Scotty (@_GodsSoldier_10) March 19, 2014
As noted by Seth Rosenthal of SB Nation, Scotty broke the 1000 RT milestone at about 8:32 ET. However, viewers did not see any fans on the court. So what happened?
Got kicked out pic.twitter.com/FpF5Rxak1e
— Scotty (@_GodsSoldier_10) March 19, 2014
Whoops!
Later, Scotty explained exactly what happened.
Salty pic.twitter.com/fnE3GJFmjW
— Scotty (@_GodsSoldier_10) March 19, 2014
When your at the cavs game don't even tweet about anything. They took me in a room with like 12 police officers #salty
— Scotty (@_GodsSoldier_10) March 19, 2014
Scotty can claim overbearing treatment, but it seems obvious that he did not plan his perfect crime particularly well. If he'd merely researched the past few months of on-court activity at The Q, he'd have seen that security had every reason to be on high alert.
I'm no master criminal, but it seems like Scotty should have used a less popular social network. You need to hide in plain sight, my friend.
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