Last weekend, a man bit part of another man’s finger off at the Beyoncé and Jay Z concert in Pasadena, California at the Rose Bowl. The biter – 25-year-old Roberto Alcaraz Garnica – was the rambunctious instigator of the incident, as he was groping a woman during the show (a sexually charged show, one can imagine), and that woman’s boyfriend got all indignant about it.
A physical altercation ensued, resulting in Garnica biting off part of the other man’s finger. The man was taken to the hospital and is presumably fine, other than wondering what he did wrong in life to not only get coerced into spending hundreds of dollars on concert tickets, but to get part of his finger bitten off while there.
As for Garnica, he was arrested on suspicion of sexual battery and mayhem, which I didn’t even know was a thing. Under the legal definition, mayhem is described as the criminal act of disabling or disfiguring the members (leg, arm, hand, foot, eye) of someone else. But this is just the fun version that makes it sound like you spent your summer running amok – you know, causing mayhem. Real-world mayhem, though, graduates to aggravated assault and a felony pretty easily, which sounds a whole lot less fun.
