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If you happen to be going to Qualcomm Stadium for a San Diego Chargers game, remember to leave your footballs at home. Chargers fan Jesse Unger was tailgating at the Colts-Chargers game in October when he received a ticket from a police officer for throwing a football around the parking lot. Officers told Unger to stop throwing, but thinking that they were joking, he continued. He was hit with a citation for “playing ball,” according to U-T San Diego, and went to Clairemont Mesa Traffic Court last week to contest the ticket.

Via U-T San Diego:

The actual law, per San Diego Municipal Code 59.0502, says that one cannot “intentionally throw, discharge, launch or spill any solid object (including footballs, baseballs, frisbees and other such devices) or liquid substance or otherwise cause subject or substance to be thrown, discharged, launched, spilled, or to become airborne.

Nonetheless, he told Unger that if he pleaded guilty, he would suspend the $75 fine….

Then came something even more ridiculous – Unger’s plea.

“I plead guilty to throwing the football, Your Honor.”

The judge dismissed Unger’s ticket.