StatTiger 3,188 Posted June 2, 2006 Share Posted June 2, 2006 http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgere...er/14726146.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vatz22au 142 Posted June 2, 2006 Share Posted June 2, 2006 LaGrange police charged Blackmon with underage drinking and pedestrian under the influence. I could've been arrested for this many times during my freshman year at AU.... not to take away anything from the charges though. Players should know they are held to a higher degree of responsibility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcgufcm 4,107 Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 burn. but the article goes overboard comparing him to sears. he wasn't driving. not the same at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Sanders 123 Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 Exactly. Underage drinking is the main problem here.. atleast I would think so. 1 game suspension at most I guess.. (comparing with Sears suspension).. and maybe only 1 half? I doubt that though.. prob 1 game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasTiger 12,961 Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 burn. but the article goes overboard comparing him to sears. he wasn't driving. not the same at all. 238267[/snapback] Drunk walking doesn't endanger others too much. Drunk driving, on the other hand... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boonan 0 Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 Well, it could be just as dangerous... I'll throw out a scenario for fun: The unassuming pedestrian drunk meanders into the road causing someone to have to dodge out of the way, and in doing so swerves into oncoming traffic causing a massive pile-up wreck. One of the vehicles involved in the wreck is a massive tanker that explodes after catching on fire causing destruction and mayhem over a short distance. I belive my little fiction shall end here before I go too crazy with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasTiger 12,961 Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 Well, it could be just as dangerous... I'll throw out a scenario for fun:The unassuming pedestrian drunk meanders into the road causing someone to have to dodge out of the way, and in doing so swerves into oncoming traffic causing a massive pile-up wreck. One of the vehicles involved in the wreck is a massive tanker that explodes after catching on fire causing destruction and mayhem over a short distance. I belive my little fiction shall end here before I go too crazy with it. 238272[/snapback] Damn. That sounds pretty bad. I guess he's off the team now. Thanks a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RVTiger 0 Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 Here's the link: http://www.al.com/sports/mobileregister/in...0910.xml&coll=3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vatz22au 142 Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 http://www.aunation.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=25365 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
passthebiscuits 6,856 Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 and yet some people on this board still argue that calling the GA/FLA game the biggest outdoor cocktail party is good for the sport... college athletics+EtoH=never good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleDrill 178 Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 Once upon a time in Auburn, if you were drunk and you walked home, the police would leave you alone unless you were doing something stupid like tearing stuff up or peeing in someone's yard. They would rather you walk than drive. Sounds like these cops got bested by the kids pulling the car over and making a run for it, so they grabbed one of them. This is unfortunate, but I hope there is discipline and lessons learned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StatTiger 3,188 Posted June 3, 2006 Author Share Posted June 3, 2006 Sounds like these cops got bested by the kids pulling the car over and making a run for it, so they grabbed one of them.This is unfortunate, but I hope there is discipline and lessons learned. 238320[/snapback] http://www.oanow.com/servlet/Satellite?pag...ts%21index.html Sounds like Tray is getting just what he deserves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcgufcm 4,107 Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 you know, bad as it is... it sounds like something i did in high school minus the drinking (didn't drink then). we used to run from the cops all for any little thing. maybe not the best policy, but i understand why he do it even if he wasn't driving. you don't get caught though. honestly, i kinda wish he was suspended for the first half of the wash. state game, but it doesn't look like that's gonna happen. it would be a little overkill but better over than under when you're dealing with 20 year olds (i'm 24 so i speak from present experience). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KunzelTiger 0 Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 According to police reports, a Ford Escort containing four men - two black and two white - passed a LaGrange P.D. car at an intersection in LaGrange. I wanna know why the race part had to be added in...What relevance to the story is it that two of the guys were white and two were black? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russnagel1 26 Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 They were talking about the people in the car, they said how many and the only characteristic they could identify, given the situation, was their race. What's wrong with that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KunzelTiger 0 Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 IMO bringing race into this is just an attempt to show that the La Grange police weren't targeting only a certain race...but thats just how it seems to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wishbone 0 Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 The bad thing is what was he doing in a car with wrong plates. Not a good sign at all. CTT got rid of that last local LB that hung out with a bad local crowd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CCTAU 3,333 Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 They were talking about the people in the car, they said how many and the only characteristic they could identify, given the situation, was their race. What's wrong with that? 238348[/snapback] I think after the reporter mentioned the Escort, he felt he had to explain that there were white guys in the car also. Hard to believe, I know. But white guys drive Escorts too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tgr4lfe 220 Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 The bad thing is what was he doing in a car with wrong plates. Not a good sign at all. CTT got rid of that last local LB that hung out with a bad local crowd. 238353[/snapback] I don't know about GA, but in AL this is not unusual at all. Since tags stay with the person and not the car. Say you sell a buick, you keep that tag...you buy a honda and put that tag on the honda after going to the tag office and having it switched. Don't know if they have improved it or not, but used to 3 or 4 years ago it would not automatically come up in the database if the tag was ran by police. So the next day your get stopped in the honda for speeding, but when the officer run the tag it comes back on a buick. Who knows if it is intentional switched tag or not? Not likely we will ever know. Fact is his buddy driving the car was an dumba... for driving that way. And then all 4 of them for running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PChamp119 96 Posted June 5, 2006 Share Posted June 5, 2006 If he went on foot, apparently he is not as fast as we all thought he was... On a side note, I think it would be spectacular if Tuberville gives him a one game suspension. This would really show up Shula. I fully expect this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wishbone 0 Posted June 5, 2006 Share Posted June 5, 2006 I don't see how you coudn't suspend a player for being arrested and running from the cops. At the very least a one game suspension. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AUman43 5 Posted June 5, 2006 Share Posted June 5, 2006 TT has done a good job in this area so far so I trust he will "nip this in the bud" quickly. This type of behavior cannot be tolerated or it will spread. TB better realize that "Coach" won't put up with it now rather than later................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AuTigersX311 2 Posted June 6, 2006 Share Posted June 6, 2006 trey is still a young guy, 19 or so. so you have to realize he is a teenager and he will do stupid teenager things. he will learn from his mistakes and move on to be auburn's next all american in the future!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AUesquire 1 Posted June 6, 2006 Share Posted June 6, 2006 Yea, CTT's been pretty consistent with dishing out the discipline when someone goes astray. I expect the "Little keg of hate"....I mean "Little Ball of hate" will remember this incident. I know he was just doing what so many of us did and so many do currently at that age. Public intoxication at games, parties, other events, is more the norm than the exception in certain segments of college society. But, I agree with an earlier poster that athletes are held to a different level of accountability than the average student. Should they be? Who knows, but they are. If a student wants to stand in the student section in JH and holler all day...party all you want before or after the game. If you want to put on the orange and blue and run through the fog, out of the tunnel to "Eye of the Tiger" in front of 86,000 on Saturdays....you just don't have that option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthLink02 8 Posted June 7, 2006 Share Posted June 7, 2006 I don't see how you coudn't suspend a player for being arrested and running from the cops. At the very least a one game suspension. 238533[/snapback] Agreed. If he hadn't run from the cops, I don't think it would be a problem. But taking off is a problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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