re: Referee Harassment Bill

I'm not sure of your time frame or number of games. My number of games is probably in the 5000 range. Physical threats are rare, but becoming less so. As for actual assaults, I can only think of 5 that I have witnessed. As for harassment, that is a totally different story. It is much more pronounced now. Hell, I have had to tell parents to leave facilities for harassing pre-teens calling games/matches for 4 and 5 year olds. Sadly, the parents showing their arse typically don't know the rules well enough to argue a call in the first place. I have seen refs/officials put parents in their place (quite effectively no less...including a 12 year old that straightened out an attorney), but most ignore them in order to de-escalate.