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Shea Stadium Viewing Experience Oddly Reminiscent of Soviet Gulag

There will be no dissent and no dissonance -- when Shea Stadium guards tell you to watch baseball peacefully or "take your beating like a man," well, you have an easy decision, don't you?
Nicholas Kamparosyan, 31, and his brother Telemak, 27, of Forest Hills, have filed a lawsuit in Brooklyn Federal Court claiming they were beaten by Shea Stadium guards and then falsely arrested.

"They were sitting in the best seats in the house, minding their own business and they got the s--t knocked out of them," said lawyer Howard Greenberg, who is defending them in Criminal Court.

The suit, which seeks unspecified charges, contends the brothers stood up to take photos of each other during "a lull" in the game.

The suit alleges the Kamparosyans were taken by guards to a tunnel area in the bowels of the stadium where they were beaten and choked.

"Take this beating like a man," an unidentified guard told Nicholas Kamparosyan, according to the suit.

There is another side to the story, the Stadium's, which alleges the brothers were arrested for the appropriate offenses and taken out of the stadium peacefully ... but man, if this is even close to true, Shea Stadium security personnel have a lot of 'splaining to do. "Take this beating like a man" -- what is this, a Bourne Identity sequel? Beware the Estonian with the shifty eyes!

(HT: BBTF)

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