(and it could happen again: https://polymarket.com/event/another-dildo-thrown-at-wnba-ga...
https://polymarket.com/event/dildo-thrown-at-wnba-game-on-au... )
So the prediction market in this case maybe isn't so much causing the bad events, as just being a useful side channel by which the insiders/bad actors who've already planned the events can sweep up a little extra money from the prediction-market equivalent of "retail investors" — the ones who are inexplicably willing to put their money on the table with no information whatsoever and wait for someone else to take it.