Vikings Fan Stabbed over Inflatable Team Yard Decoration

Dave Moschel, a 36-year-old Minnesota Vikings fan who lives in Stoughton, Wisconsin, was stabbed multiple times by a man who was doing damage to his inflatable Vikings yard decoration.

According to WISC-TV News 3 in Madison, Wisconsin, police said a 21-year-old man began doing damage to the Vikings inflatable using a box cutter when Moschel confronted him. The assailant then stabbed Moschel seven times with the same box cutter.

The incident occurred Sunday evening as Moschel was preparing to watch a football game, at which point he noticed something happening outside of his house.

"You hear him slicing this guy up, come outside, and 'Hey, what are you doing?' Confront the guy," Moschel said. "He takes his razor knife or whatever he had in his hand and we just go on the ground and start rifling around."

Moschel received stitches for the wounds on his forehead and under his eye. He said he will repair the Vikings decoration on his lawn.

"[The inflatable] is going to get a little piece of Vikings duct tape put on there, and it's going to be blown up every day of the week from now on," Moschel said. "I'm still here, still living, still watching football."

The man who attacked Moschel has been arrested on suspicion of reckless endangerment and criminal damage to property.