Croquet Ain't For Sissies

Calgary, Canada: May 30, 2002 Three men were sent to the hospital after being hit with mallets and nine people were arrested following a vicious brawl between croquet and softball players in this western Canadian city. One man was in a hospital trauma center with life-threatening head injuries following the melee at a Calgary, Alberta athletic field, police and paramedics said on Wednesday. Alcohol was said to be a factor. "I didn't realize croquet was a contact sport," said Det. Dean Vegso of the Calgary police. The incident began late Tuesday when a softball team, which had just wrapped up a game, and the croquet players, who had been using the same field, began hurling what police described as "childish" insults at each other. "For whatever reason, the two groups got into a verbal argument, which turned into a fistfight, and then they began hitting each other with the wooden croquet mallets," Vegso said. "I think one of the instigators was a 'Yank'." Police and ambulances soon arrived on the scene, and nine of the brawlers were arrested, he said. The most notable being former Ronatarian vice-presidential candidate Brad, whose love of croquet is well know worldwide. What has been kept secret, until this ugly incident, is Brad's disdain for softball. Vesgo reported that calming Brad down "was one of the toughest things we've handled here in Calgary, and we hosted the [1988 Winter] Olympics." Three of seven people who sustained injuries in the fracas were transported to hospital, paramedics said. Brad was not reported to be injured. Many openly wondered why Brad was in Canada in the first place. The Ronatarian Party refused to release an official statement on the matter, but bars and pubs around the party's headquarters in New Jersey were said to be "more rowdy than usual", said local media representatives.

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