Idiot Vigilante Umpire Beats Up Falsely Accused iPhone Thief

When New Jersey little league umpire Carl Ippolito couldn’t find his iPhone, he did the completely reasonable thing: went into a rage, used Find My iPhone, and started personally tracking someone who he assumed had robbed him. Didn’t end well!

While Ippolito was on his iPhone warpath, he passed another man – Brent Johnson – who happened to be talking on an iPhone. Using his supreme powers of deduction, he assumed this man was talking on his iPhone and proceeded to pummel him with punches until he was arrested. But hey, at least he got his phone back!

Oh wait, no, he’d left it at the little league field’s “snack shack” all along, because he is a dumbass. Way to strike out, Carl! That was a bad call! What a foul move! You’ll probably be charged with assault and bat-tery! It took a lot of balls to attack a total stranger by surprise! [Today]

Photo by Shutterstock/Condor 36

Note: Above photo not of Carl Ippolito. Just someone dressed as an umpire. Probably a very nice guy, and has never attacked anyone.

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(6 Comments)
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    olearymo

    Friday, May 27, 2011 at 12:42 PM

    He was WAY off base.

    Seriously though, this is why vigilantism is SO dangerous.

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    Steve

    Friday, May 27, 2011 at 3:28 PM

    Order it from the US, pick up a step down transformer from Jacar or ebay and Robert is your Mother’s brother.

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      Andre

      Friday, May 27, 2011 at 5:33 PM

      Ummm yep what he said.

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    Sicarius123

    Friday, May 27, 2011 at 5:38 PM

    So this week we’ve had a story about a kid giving the cops the information, and 9 months later having nothing.

    And now some dumb arse beating someone with an iPhone because he has a short fuse and can’t even follow find my iphone properly.

  • [–]

    ChemZ

    Monday, May 30, 2011 at 7:00 PM

    Logic is a funny thing…

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    MIT

    Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 7:05 PM

    Hope he gets murdered in jail

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