seen yesterday burress got sentenced to 2 years in prison, inwhich he will spend atleast 20 months. think that might be a little much? i think the espn guys nailed it right on saying "prison is for bad people who commit violent crimes, not people who do stupid things". for those who dont know what who he is or what he did he was a giants wide receiver who shot himself in the leg accidently at a club. charged with criminal possesion of a weapon, and reckless engangerment.
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seen yesterday burress got sentenced to 2 years in prison, inwhich he will spend atleast 20 months. think that might be a little much? i think the espn guys nailed it right on saying "prison is for bad people who commit violent crimes, not people who do stupid things". for those who dont know what who he is or what he did he was a giants wide receiver who shot himself in the leg accidently at a club. charged with criminal possesion of a weapon, and reckless engangerment.
Plaxico and Vick should be cellmates for life. Well, that might be an overstatement, but I do get tired of sports figures who believe they are above the law that governs us all. He is simply doing the mandatory time dictated by New York law.
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What if the round would've not gone into his own leg but, say, another person's head? Is there a reason we have criminal penalties for crimes commited by people with firearms? He'll be out in less than a year, if not already. Maybe the Eagles will pick him up.
Ever wonder how an NFL team made up of players who have done monumentally stupid things and/or criminal things might look? Vick at QB, that idiot running back from OSU who never even made it to the bigs before he went to jail, Burress, the genius from Cleveland who put himself out for the season wrecking his motorcycle in a parking lot, the Bentley driver who hit the pedestrian at 7 A.M.
I'm obviously not a big sports fan - I don't even know most of their names above - but it seems the NFL has a disproportionate number of idiots and thugs among the players.
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seen yesterday burress got sentenced to 2 years in prison, inwhich he will spend atleast 20 months. think that might be a little much? i think the espn guys nailed it right on saying "prison is for bad people who commit violent crimes, not people who do stupid things". for those who dont know what who he is or what he did he was a giants wide receiver who shot himself in the leg accidently at a club. charged with criminal possesion of a weapon, and reckless engangerment.
Burress doesn't get any sympathy out of me. If you're not only going to break the law by carrying a concealed weapon in a city with notoriously strict gun laws, but do it that carelessly and ineptly, you deserve to do a couple of years.
As Rambo pointed out, he could easily have killed someone instead of just wounding himself. Imagine what could have happened if the drunken fool had actually tried to pull the gun in a crowded club.
I do not agree with the gun laws of New York City, but they are the law. This isn't a case of ignorance, but of ego. Burris deliberately violated the law and then attempted to coerce others into covering it up. People lost their jobs over it. He got what was called for...and he deserved.
You and I would have gotten something similar.
Stallworth, on the other hand, didn't even get a slap on the wrist for killing that pedestrian while driving intoxicated. He even got a pass on the civil suit as the family has agreed to let his compensation to them be delayed for the year the NFL has him suspended.
You and I would be serving 7-10 years for vehicular homicide and our family would be homeless with all assets seized.
The gun slid down into his pant leg, and he fired it while trying to fish it back out.
thats alittle to close to the twig -n- berries for me to just fish it back ,sounds a little off to me.
could happen tho , must admit drunk in a club ,'I ain't fishing in my underware, skivvies, bananna hamock and or MAN PANTIES to get a carteridge in the pairtree. I'll just take the insults and count myself lucky,.
According to the sports radio program I listen to, he had a CCl from another state. He had to know laws vary from state to state. Many of these pro athletes have been spoiled all their athletic lives from junior high to the pros and probably just don't think because they've always been special and nothing ever happened to them. I find myself disliking professional sports more and more each year! Too much money and too many thugs. Can you imagine the trouble they'd be in if their wages were typical of athletes 30 or 40 years ago!
Can anyone site a case with a similar crime and similar sentence. I think he maybe getting the Martha Stewart.
Well, I happen to think Martha Stewart also got what she had coming. Like Plaxico Burress, she was arrogant enough to believe that laws only apply to ordinary people.
But of course, that probably isn't what you meant....
Well, I happen to think Martha Stewart also got what she had coming. Like Plaxico Burress, she was arrogant enough to believe that laws only apply to ordinary people.
But of course, that probably isn't what you meant....
I agree with Troy on this one, Martha Stewart got what she deserved. Everyone always thinks that Martha was convicted of insider trading, she was actually convicted of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and making false statements, felonies. She served a little over five months of her prison sentence.
I agree with Troy on this one, Martha Stewart got what she deserved. Everyone always thinks that Martha was convicted of insider trading, she was actually convicted of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and making false statements, felonies. She served a little over five months of her prison sentence.
I didn't avidly follow the details of her case. But it seemed to me like she basically thought her questioning by the feds was a ritualistic formality, where she would tell them what they wanted to hear and they'd go away and stop bothering her. She seems to have been more than a little shocked, when she found out they actually expect honest answers to their questions.
Her case is a classic example of the fact that lying to the feds about what you did can get you into more trouble than what you did....
As far as Burress goes, with serious rights come serious responsibilities.
Look at what the fool did: he went out drinking in public with a gun stuffed into the waistband of his sweat pants, instead of having a safe and reliable way to carry it. He also had a round chambered, the safety off and the hammer back....or it wouldn't have gone off when he tried to dig it out of his pant leg after it slid down. He was an accident waiting to happen. Thank God he shot himself, instead of accidentally or on purpose shooting someone else.
I have no problem at all with that sort of stupidity being severely punished. If you think about it, he's lucky just to be alive. Remember the football player who was shot in the leg during a burglary a while back, and bled to death?
As my dad used to say, "sometimes, stupidity is a capital offense." Given that fact, I'd say Plaxico Burress got off easy.
i saw the news said he 'agreed' to two years, so i think it could have been worse but they worked something out. doesn't matter though, it's like a working holiday for NFL players. work out all the time. he doesn't have to worry about being anyone's bitch; who the hell would fuck with that shit?
i saw the news said he 'agreed' to two years, so i think it could have been worse but they worked something out. doesn't matter though, it's like a working holiday for NFL players. work out all the time. he doesn't have to worry about being anyone's bitch; who the hell would fuck with that shit?
You do have to kind of wonder why a guy that size and in condition to play pro football thought he needed a gun to protect himself. Especially since he had a team mate along for the ride....
Would you have started trouble with a pair like that? I was pretty belligerent sometimes when I was young, but jumping them would never have crossed my mind.
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