{"id":42784,"date":"2025-08-03T18:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T18:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/42784\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T18:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T18:47:09","slug":"wnba-says-1-person-who-threw-lime-green-sex-toy-onto-floor-has-been-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/42784\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA says 1 person who threw lime-green sex toy onto floor has been arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Justice has been served to at least one person who hurled a sex toy onto the court during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/category\/wnba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">WNBA<\/a> game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The WNBA said on Saturday that the fan who threw a neon green dildo onto the court during a game between the Atlanta Dream and Golden State Valkyries on July 29 has been arrested. Anyone else caught throwing objects onto the court, the league said, will be ejected from the arena and face a minimum one-year ban.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/wnba-logo-080325.jpg\" alt=\"A WNBA basketball on the floor\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Jun 27, 2025; Dallas, Texas, USA; A view of a Wilson basketball and the Dallas Wings logo during the game between the Wings and the Indiana Fever at the American Airlines Center. (Jerome Miron\/Imagn Images)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The safety and well-being of everyone in our arenas is a top priority for our league. Objects of any kind thrown onto the court or in the seating area can pose a safety risk for players, game officials, and fans,&#8221; the league said in a statement. &#8220;In line with WNBA Arena Security Standards, any fan who intentionally throws an object onto the court will be immediately ejected and face a minimum one-year ban in addition to being subject to arrest and prosecution by local authorities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BricksCenter\/status\/1950372698825359371\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The incident occurred<\/a> late in the fourth quarter on Tuesday at the Gateway Center Arena. There was a stoppage of play while an official kicked the errant dildo off the court, and it was removed by a police officer.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BricksCenter\/status\/1951447447013826790\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a copycat crime occurred<\/a> when a fan threw another sex toy \u2014 which, from a distance, appeared to be the same make and model as the first \u2014 under the basket during Friday&#8217;s game between the Valkyries and the Chicago Sky.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/angel-reese-jokingly-blames-teammate-caitlin-clark-sophie-cunningham-sex-toy-fiasco-getting-weird\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ANGEL REESE JOKINGLY BLAMES TEAMMATE OF CAITLIN CLARK, SOPHIE CUNNINGHAM FOR SEX TOY FIASCO: &#8216;GETTING WEIRD&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s super disrespectful. I don&#8217;t really get the point of it,&#8221; Sky center Elizabeth Williams said after Friday&#8217;s game. &#8220;It&#8217;s really immature. Whoever is doing it needs to grow up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other WNBA players have also chimed in on social media, including the Indiana Fever&#8217;s Sophie Cunningham and New York Liberty forward Isabelle Harrison.<\/p>\n<p>Cunningham <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/culture\/sophie-cunningham-sick-tired-dodging-dildos-wnba-games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">wrote on Friday<\/a>: &#8220;Stop throwing dildos on the court\u2026 you&#8217;re going to hurt one of us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/sophie-cunningham24.jpg\" alt=\"Sophie Cunningham looks to pass\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham, right, works the floor against Dallas Wings guard Paige Bueckers during the first half of a WNBA basketball game Friday, June 27, 2025, in Dallas.\u00a0 (AP Photo\/Julio Cortez)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.onelink.me\/xLDS?pid=AppArticleLink&amp;af_dp=foxnewsaf%3A%2F%2F&amp;af_web_dp=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fapps-products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Harrison <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OMG_itsizzyb\/status\/1951462340890861689\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">added on X<\/a>: &#8220;ARENA SECURITY?! Hello??! Please do better. It&#8217;s not funny. never was funny. Throwing ANYTHING on the court is so dangerous.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! 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