Fanatic Fans

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So everyone has his or her favorite sport teams.  You have the fans that go to games every once in a while, fans that have season tickets and never miss a game, and then you have fanatic fans where their sport team becomes part of them.  In this case, Bryan Stow encountered those extreme-type fans.  While at a Dodger-Giants game, Stow was walking back to his car in Giant’s apparel when two men decked out in Dodger apparel approached him and started beating him to the pavement because he was a Giants fan. 

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This wasn’t just a simple punch and be done with.  They punched his head until he fell and continued the beating on the ground by kicking him unconscious.  Stow was rushed to the hospital by friends.  But he didn’t just walk away with some bruising and scars.  Almost a week after the incident, he remains in a medically induced coma with brutal skull fractures and bruising to his brain.  His doctor predicts a slow and long recovery process for him.  Friends and family back home are rushing to do fundraisers and collect donations for his family to pay the medical bills.  He was never known to be an aggressive man, hence the reason why he didn’t fight back (granted it was a sneak attack when they first started punching him in the head). 

I can understand being a proud supporter of your team but going to the extremes of beating an innocent man in the parking lot is ridiculous.  It would be one thing if it were a group of drunken men arguing back and forth antagonizing each other, taunting for a fight.  But he was just walking back to his car with his children and friends and he was snuck up upon and was punched from the back of his head until he fell down and was kicked unconscious.  Its so unfair to Stow and his friends and family that now he is suffering in his coma and everyone else back home is just waiting and hoping until he wakes up all because of some stupid, drunken fanatics that just went too far to an inappropriate level.
(PS-this isn't the a fight from the article, just a baseball fight in general between rivals Yankees and Red Sox fans)

It goes to show how life can be so unexpected.  This man expected to go to a baseball game with his friends and his children to enjoy the day and it ended up as a nightmare—beaten until unconscious and fell into a coma in which he still has not awoken almost a week later.   The strain this must be putting on his wife and children must be so extreme and upsetting.  Who knew that going to a simple baseball game could end in such disaster?

A Dream Come True

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So when we were younger, we grew up watching Disney movies such as Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, etc.  We always imagine having that fairytale, picture-perfect life with our prince charmings.  And for Halloween, we dressed as different princesses every year just to be able to wear the gorgeous dresses and to feel like a real princess.

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 And in every woman’s life when they are older, their favorite day to get dressed up and to feel like princesses themselves is their wedding day.  They spend months planning the place, the caterer, the flower arrangements and more importantly, dress shopping for yourself and the bridesmaids.  Well what if combining both the dreams of when you are younger and when your older could come true?  

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Designer Alfred Angelo has now created a line of Disney Princess inspired wedding gowns.  The princesses are all represented with their own dress and suggested shoes and jewelry: Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Ariel, Jasmine, Tiana (newer princess, not an original), Belle and Snow White.  The prices range from $599-$1199 with a large range of sizes from 0-30W.  The dresses are a bit pricey if one is on a budget but I think having a Disney princess wedding dress is the ultimate piece to that picture perfect wedding.