Man Gets Jail for Phillies Game Vomit-Assault

(CBS/AP)  A 21-year-old New Jersey man was sentenced to jail Friday for vomiting on another spectator and his 11-year-old daughter in the stands at a Philadelphia Phillies game.

Matthew Clemmens, of Cherry Hill, N.J., pleaded guilty in May to charges of assault, harassment and disorderly conduct and was sentenced to one to three months in jail, two years of probation and 50 hours of community service. The maximum penalty was two years in jail.

Clemmens was taken into custody after Family Court Judge Kevin Dougherty sentenced him, and several family members burst into sobs.

Clemmens has been dubbed "Pukemon" for drawing national media attention to the incident, according to the Philadelphia Daily News.

The spectator who was vomited on, Michael Vangelo, said he has not been back to the ballpark since the assault. He also said his daughter refuses to talk about what happened and has said she does not want to go to another Phillies game.

Clemmens admitted he stuck his fingers down his throat and vomited on Vangelo, an off-duty Easton police captain, and one of Vangelo's daughters at a Phillies-Nationals game on April 14 at Citizens Bank Park.

Clemmens apologized Friday, and members of his family told Dougherty that Clemmens was a good person who made one uncharacteristically bad mistake. Dougherty said he believed Gary Clemmens was sincere in his apology for his son's behavior, but said the defendant's apology was "feigned."

Clemmens and his friend were spilling beer, cursing and heckling Vangelo and his daughters from the time they arrived at their seats.

The police captain's 15-year-old daughter asked the pair to stop the profanity, and Vangelo complained to security that Clemmens' friend was spitting, with some of it hitting his younger daughter.

After the friend was ejected, Clemmens was sitting alone behind the Vangelos when he answered his cell phone and said: "I need to do what I need to do. I'm going to get sick," the prosecutor said.

Clemmens then put his fingers down his throat and threw up on the father, with some vomit splashing onto Vangelo's younger daughter.

Dougherty also ruled that Clemmens would have to pay Vangelo $315, the cost of the five tickets for him and his family to attend the game in April. Vangelo said he intended to donate the money to the Easton Police Athletic League.

[pragmatist1]

I hope the two got regular blood tests to make sure this piece of trash didn't give them any type of disease. This idiot is getting off too easy. He should be made to be held in a tank of human fesces up to his neck for at least twenty hours each day and then not allowed to bathe.

[wlhoppers]

I met the actor who played Flounder - he's really a nice guy, don't link him to this jerk - LOL.

I hope Lindsay Lohan has to face this judge someday - be nice to see her get a sentence equitable to her offenses.

[rockcutr]

Bad beer, scumbag friends, no clue how to act in public, criminal puking, spewing profanity; Must be Jersey. Welcome to the real garden state. The absurdity of it all apparantly overwhelmed the judge in this matter. The punk should have gotten the max time. What a sweet little demon spawn.

[billpl2]

he's lucky the cop didn't kill him

....I would have

[deohgee]

Kill the puker!

[wlhoppers]

Slap his fat butt in jail for the full term, make him complete the third grade like he should have in the first place. Or send him to Cell Block D, where he can learn first-hand how nasty bodily fluids can be.

[run2jazz2]

He deserved what he got! No sympathy from me!

[imthaid]

I would agree if the target had not been a cop.

[formrusmcsgt]

Clemmens admitted he stuck his fingers down his throat and vomited on Michael Vangelo, an off-duty Easton police captain...
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Poor victim choice, to say the least.

His folks must be proud.

[Lifeson2112]

If this moron had done this to me and my little girl he'd have a lot more than one black eye.

[Jhihmoac]

Yup...As long as we're quoting movie lines...

"Stupid is, as stupid does..."