Man Loses Eye In Beatdown Over Baseball
Police: 3 Cubs Fans Attack White Sox Fan During 2-Year-Old Girl's Birthday Party
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Robert Steele, 32, of Gurnee told The (Crystal Lake) Northwest Herald that he went to the Sesame Street-themed party for his fiancee's 2-year-old niece on July 19, where the three men allegedly started teasing Steele that White Sox fans had missing teeth.
"We were going to leave, but they convinced us that they were just joking around," said Steele's fiancee, April Bieze.
The taunting got worse and more personal as the men drank vodka and beer and it escalated into a physical fight that involved all four men, Bieze said.
Steele's nose and orbital bone were broken and he lost his right eye after getting kicked in the face with a steel-toed boot, authorities said. He has been released after spending several days at an Elgin hospital.
Boguslaw "Bob" Czapla, 37, of Elmwood Park was charged with mob action and aggravated battery. His brother, Jaroslaw "Jerry" Czapla, 31, of Huntley and Maciej "Mike" Trojnar, 33, of Elmwood Park were charged with mob action and battery, said Huntley Deputy Police Chief Todd Fulton.
Trojnar was at large with a warrant issued for his arrest, Fulton said. The Czapla brothers were free on bond.
Jaroslaw Czapla's number was unlisted. There were no listings for Boguslaw Czapla or Trojnar.
Steele said he will be fitted for a glass eye and need more surgeries.
"Any mirrors I go by, I don't look in the mirror," Steele said. "I don't want that to affect me, to see myself like that."
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With names like Boguslaw and Jaroslaw, the IQ-Slaw is probably in the double digits!
This is so pathetic! Three Chicago fans, far less mature than the youngest child attending this birthday party!!!!
Now, because they did this in front of young children, shouldn''t they also be charged with child endangerment?
That seems to be the usual M.O for cops now-a-days.
And who in the hell goes to a party like that, and drinks in front of kids anyways?
What a world!
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3-1=2 more idiots to fight.
Or maybe it was,,It''s easy to be mean, when you are green and at the porcelain throne.
If you will notice, Barbara is answering Sistatee''s note of 12:08.
Madam. They used to make eyes out of glass years ago. I knew of blind persons with glass eyes,,Today they have other things. safety glass.
I am too old for Big Bird and his gang.I am 53. People drink. I don''t. Holding a child''s birthday party at a ball park. Foster mums years ago had our birthday parties in the home. I will mark my 54th birthday quietly with my friend at home. Maybe a cake or sp dinner.
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by honestabe8
July 30, 2008 6:15 PM EDT
- Just think of how bad this would be if they would have been smoking pot...
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