NOW, listen up, fellas!

Soon, fans with short tempers will be thrown out of the Cubao Big Dome.

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A fan shouting profanities, personal insults and seen flashing a "dirty finger" or insulting hand signs, he gets a warning.

A repetition of any of those will cause an outright ejection.

Big Dome security personnel need not consult PBA officials when enforcing the rules.

In the past, a fan is untouchable without permission from PBA top guns.

Another proposal is, a fan caught throwing an object or debris on the court or at a player or referee, earns an automatic ejection.

Also, one assuming a fighting stance or illegally entering the court will be automatically thrown out of the venue.

There's likewise no need for venue security to get a green light from PBA officials to enforce the rule.

These proposals were the offshoot of the recent ruckus that saw Burger King's Wynne Arboleda attack a taunting fan from ringside.

Arboleda was meted a season-long suspension and a forfeiture of his P2.73-million salary in the 2009-2010 season.

I was told Arboleda abandoned his plan to appeal his case.

Just right.

He'd only be disappointed as I believe officials would simply toss it out the window for lack of merit.

You attack a fan, including a rabble-rouser armed with a lot of provocation, and you are back once more in the Stone Age.

The "barbarians at the gate" thing has no more place in an era when even a seven-year-old boy is trained to queue at a bus stop.

May I also suggest that fans fighting at the venue be ejected too, as in players engaged in a fistfight or any form of physical violence?

I'm sure PBA Commissioner Sonny Barrios is listening right this minute.

Now, if the Cubao Big Dome, the mecca of Philippine sports, can be so open as to enforce rules to curb violence inside its halls, why not also all our arenas in the entire archipelago?

About time we instituted rules that have teeth as sharp as a shark's.

We spend good money to watch games and seek relief from life's drudgery.

For scoundrels, scalawags and scums - the sonafabitches included - to spoil our party, that's not fair.

About time we cracked the whip.