# Pretty funny little league story
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pretty-funny-little-league-story/184944
**Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [September 13, 2006, 6:09am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pretty-funny-little-league-story/184944 "2006-09-13T06:09:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@bics56](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bics56)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2006, 6:09am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pretty-funny-little-league-story/184944/1 "2006-09-13T06:09:39Z")
[http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06256/721322-85.stm](http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06256/721322-85.stm)
> Keith recounted how Mr. Downs, shortly before the start of their playoff game, took him aside in a nearby parking lot and spoke to him in “a kind of whisper.”
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> “He told me if I would hit Harry in the face he would pay me 25 dollars,” he said.
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> Keith said that during pregame warmups, he threw a baseball that bounced and hit Harry in the groin, causing the boy to go crying to his mother in the bleachers…
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> Mrs. Bowers testified that after her son was struck the second time, Mr. Downs went up to her and said he didn’t think Harry, who has a mild form of mental retardation, should play in the game.
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> “He said he should take the night off because the ball seemed to be after him,” she said…
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> Then later, when the team went to a local ice cream stand for a postgame treat, he confronted Mr. Downs.
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> "I said, ‘I hit Harry in the face. Where’s my 25 dollars?’ " he testified.
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> He said Mr. Downs told him he would give him the money during the fall baseball league, but that league was never organized…
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> Mr. Downs, 29, of Dunbar, is charged with two counts of criminal solicitation to commit aggravated assault, corruption of minors, conspiracy to commit simple assault and reckless endangerment. He and his defense attorney, Thomas Shaffer, rejected a December plea agreement offered by Fayette County District Attorney Nancy Vernon.
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### Author:  [@mp3ray](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/mp3ray)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2006, 6:18am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pretty-funny-little-league-story/184944/2 "2006-09-13T06:18:35Z")
wow
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### Author:  [@Jeff95TA](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jeff95TA)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2006, 7:16am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pretty-funny-little-league-story/184944/3 "2006-09-13T07:16:39Z")
How do little league people get so screwed up? What a dick.
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### Author:  [@8Grand](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/8Grand)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2006, 7:21am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pretty-funny-little-league-story/184944/4 "2006-09-13T07:21:54Z")
Fayette county go figure
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### Author:  [@fshowcars](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fshowcars)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2006, 3:14am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pretty-funny-little-league-story/184944/5 "2006-09-15T03:14:29Z")
> [@Anna Nicole Smith](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anna-nicole-smith/24261/32):
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> Fayette county go figure
exactly.
at least this dude is going to jail over telling a kid to punch another kid for money… what kind of loser makes a deal then backs out on payment!!! hahaha
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### Author:  [@doug1105](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/doug1105)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2006, 9:54pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pretty-funny-little-league-story/184944/6 "2006-09-26T21:54:28Z")
My younger son has autism.
He goes to school and has to do a lot of therapy and work so he can be “normal” like everybody else.
All I have to say is if it was my kid, that loser coach would be in the hospital.
Beating up on kids with autism isn’t funny.