A Vista jury awarded New York Yankees fan Mario Melendez $25,000 in his lawsuit against Red Socks fan David Sanborn of Oceanside on Tuesday. The lawsuit centered about a baseball rivalry fight on July 3, 2006 at Carlsbad’s Grand Avenue Bar & Grill.
No criminal charges were filed in the case, but Melendez sued for damages in Vista Superior Court – for injuring his hand when he punched Sanborn. . . .“He grabbed me and picked me up,” he told jurors. “I really thought he was going to body-slam me.”
Sanborn said Melendez challenged him to a fight, then sucker-punched him. According to court records, Sanborn’s attorneys argued that Melendez “consented” to the fight, which lasted a few seconds, ending when Melendez punched Sanborn.
While both men claim slightly different versions of the story it seems that the jury agreed with Melendez’s version. And the puncher got paid.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
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well, look’s like another Red Sox Fan got what was coming to him. way to go yankees fan!…let’s go yankees…..pay up fool!…
THIS RED SOX FAN FOOL JUST DIDN’T GET HIS ASS KNOCKED OUT, BUT PAYED FOR IT, LITERALLY, HA HA HAAA!
“LET’S GO YANKEES!”
hay, i was there that day this happened. sandborn was there at 11am & was drinking 151 rum till 4:30pm. he came from around the bar & grabed melendez & melendez punched him in the face knocking him out & his front tooth & lip. melendez had 7 pieces of sandborn’s teeth removed from his hand. he is recovering from surgery & hope’s to be fine some day. justice was served…you go yankees fan…..$$