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The shoving incident...

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mswood:
Joab

The problem with that is apparently Margie & Luke didn't tell their cab to tell them the wrong directions (they told him not to tell the other driver the directions which is different).  NOt giving information is different then giving wrong information.

And I have gone throw the footage in slow motion, Luke is pulling the clue out with his left arm, Jen reaches around and she gets a bit of the clue and that is when Luke uses that same arm to elbow to push her arm (and grasp) away from the clue he has (his other hand is what is holding open the clue box).  I absolutely think there is nothing wrong with pushing someone (lightly) away from the clue you have in hand when they are grabbing for it.  Jen might not have been trying to take that clue, but Luke can't know that.  To use basket ball as an example when you have the ball you use your body (including your arm to create a barrier to keep the opponents from getting to the ball.  We saw Nick last year manage to steal a clue from Dan who clearly had it first and Nick just tore it out of his hands.

mswood:
In the very first episode of this season we have Tammy & Mark at a race to the clue box (for the cheese task) and Tammy is just barely (and this one is much much closer) ahead in grabbing a clue, and both use their body (including their contact at elbow and arm to push the other).  No one called another a name.  Hell one even apologized.  The contact was enough to push the cluebox partially over (so it wasn't just a tiny bump).

Jobby:
I understand your POV, but from my side it was clearly overreation from M/L.. but you are right too mswood. :)

Coutzy:

--- Quote ---To use basket ball as an example when you have the ball you use your body (including your arm to create a barrier to keep the opponents from getting to the ball.

--- End quote ---

 :ot:

That's an offensive foul if you use your arm.

mswood:
But again with the basketball metaphor, this isn't the players free arm, this is the arm he is dribbling with.  A player can have his elbow hit another player (if its the normal movement range) and it not be a fowl in the process of the game.  I mean this isn't someone taking their elbow and going out of there way.  At least thats how I remember it (its been decades, seriesly three decades since I played any bowl).  And he using that arm to left the clue up and out of the box.

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