Comments on: Man > Man’s Best Friend

By: rick

rick — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:23:25 +0000

Fiesta, days in the hole will kill you. I did over a month. Solitary confinement is the worst possible punishment

By: GatorTrey

GatorTrey — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:13:27 +0000

The blood will get thrown. Watch. They procedures the police/hospitals use these days skate a very very thin line, any deviation will cause the substance to get thrown.

He’s in a world of shit though.

By: john

john — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:54:19 +0000

I’m always amazed when these multi-million dollar athletes are too stupid to call a cab, or rent a limo, or hire a driver when they know they’re going to be out drinking.

By: sparty

sparty — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:52:45 +0000

Spary, those people you know received a slap on the wrist for DWI or for negligent homicide?

a coach of mine killed a mother and daughter while driving drunk.

By: sae

sae — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:43:51 +0000

what gets me is the people who receive multiple slaps on the wrist, but still drive (legally or not, usually not), then kill someone

By: Big D

Big D — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:43:49 +0000

Just to build off of Cycledan’s comment…

We all know people who have driven drunk and gotten away with it. Or not. But not many of us know dogfighters or people who back international dogfighting rings.
While I agree that the outrage is completely misplaced (and I am as big a dog lover as you’ll ever meet), the simple fact is that DUI doesn’t grab headlines because it’s almost commonplace. As scary a thought as that is.

As for Leonard Little, he already had at least one if not more DUI’s on his record before he killed the woman. He served his time… and continued to earn millions upon millions of dollars living the NFL lifestyle. Not a doubt in my mind he’s driven drunk since that accident and just hasn’t gotten caught yet.

By: cycledan

cycledan — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:41:44 +0000

Spary, those people you know received a slap on the wrist for DWI or for negligent homicide? Here on Long Island, they have actually started pressing murder charges against some drivers. One drunk here who was arrested the previous month for a DWI just killed a cop a mile from my house. They are looking at murder charges for him. When there is a death involved, they are not really handing out those slap on the wrist judgements anymore around here.

By: cycledan

cycledan — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:37:42 +0000

There is actually a difference in the Vick and Stallworth crimes regarding intent. Vick backed the operation and lied about it for a long time. I am sure that Stallworth wasn’t trying to kill someone.

However, I agree with Miz’s point that the result of Stallworth’s actions, the death of an innocent person, is far greater.

The reason that this won’t get as much play is that at least once per week, we read in our local papers about a drunk killing someone. It is just not as sensational as the whole dog fighting thing with one of the NFL’s most visible players.

While I never will drive drunk again and haven’t in about 20 years now, I have driven drunk while in college. I actually got scared about getting in the car with my friends when they were drunk and started being the designated driver at the end of my senior year simply because I didn’t want them to drive. Maybe that is one of the reasons why a lot of us don’t throw the stones at the drunk drivers – because it is something many of us have done in the past. Now I never killed a person or got into an accident and I really doubt I was anything close to 0.19 but I could have killed someone.

Also I have a 17 year old who is driving now. I gave him the lecture and also told him to call me if he is ever in a situation where he or his friends shouldn’t drive. He knows I will pick them up and not say a word. Scary stuff.

By: sae

sae — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:30:46 +0000

where’s PETH (People for the Ethical Treatment of Humans) when you need them?

By: mizerle06

mizerle06 — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:30:26 +0000

sparty – the reaction won’t even touch the ongoing reaction to Vick’s transgressions.

By: mizerle06

mizerle06 — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:29:12 +0000

trey would know more about this since it’s criminal.

why? because trey’s a criminal too!?

By: graddawg

graddawg — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:22:22 +0000

miz – there’s a decent chance that Little could have been convicted of an offense with harsher penalties and took a deal to plead guilty to a lesser offense, which Stallworth might also do. the other thing to consider is sentencing guidelines for the different states. trey would know more about this since it’s criminal.

By: sparty

sparty — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:19:55 +0000

I know people that have been convicted of this crime, and received a slap on the wrist, and they were not athletes.

I am more interested to how society is going to react to what happened, and less of what the courts will do.

By: Fiesta Trio

Fiesta Trio — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:12:36 +0000

I think that athletes and celebrities should get the same sentences as us regular folk. They should also be kept way from regular criminals while incarcerated.

If I ever had to go to prison, I’d go apeshit just to get solitary confinement. Better than being in the general pop where I get passed around like a blowup doll.

By: mizerle06

mizerle06 — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:02:28 +0000

john – everything he’s done so far has been cooperative and he’s seemed contrite in his public statements.

By: john

john — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:00:14 +0000

Little must have worked out some sort of plea deal. I’m sure if Stallworth cooperates, is remorseful and pleads guilty he will get some weak/pathetic sentence like Little got.