I know what you mean.. .. on TV it looked like just poorly timed and I felt the reaction was a bit over the top, but now ...............
Can you get arrested for handball in the high street? What about obstruction? - you can get arrested for that.
And yet If you pick the ball up and take it home you get away Scott free! Unless it's not your ball of course. It's a funny old world, what with it not being the same as a game of football and that.
RE: And yet A bloke that used to live next door to me got fined for nicking a rugy ball from wakey wildcats.