Mets fan sues team over scary T-shirt cannon incident
A baseball fan from Long Island is suing his beloved New York Mets, claiming he was nearly blinded at a game by a T-shirt cannon.
On June 5, Alex Swanson went to a Mets game with his three sons. In a lawsuit filed Sept. 27, he says he was struck in the face when a faulty T-shirt cannon went off from about 20 feet away. Swanson claims he was knocked off his feet by the impact, hit his head on the ground and went unconscious.
A CAT scan, per the lawsuit, showed a concussion and severe eye trauma. The lawsuit claims his retina was almost completely severed.
“It could have killed me. It’s a hazard,” Swanson said to the New York Daily News.