Stamford’s On the Edge of Hill residents travel to Florida, and hoo, boy

Stephen Green’s Florida Man Friday column is up, and this story illustrates the danger of allowing the over-90 set to play pickleball in retirement villages

Florida pickleball brawl involving up to 20 people results in paddles to the face and felony charges

Did you ever play pickleball (which I'm not entirely sure what it is) and when your opponent crosses into the "kitchen" (whatever that is), you get into a fight and punch the guy and smash him in the face with your racket, and then your wife gets involved, too, and next thing you know, there are probably 20 people involved, including a 70-year-old dude you just had to smash in the face with your racket?

No? Just Florida Couple then:

"It’s bleeding and swollen," a player described in a 911 call. "He’s got blood all over his face."

"It’s really ridiculous. I’ve never seen anything like this," the caller said.

When a third, 70-year-old individual attempted to break up the fight, he said Anthony Sapienza punched him. Once he was on the ground, Julianne Sapienza began to attack him too, according to the affidavit.

One of the victims was transported by EMS to a local hospital with a laceration above his eye that may result in "permanent scarring."

The couple fled the scene to their home, where they were later arrested and booked into a local jail, the affidavit said.