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Facing The Public Opinion Court
by Paul on 02/12/08 at 10:57 AM ET
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from Pat Hickey of the Montreal Gazette,
Defenceman Ryan O’Byrne and Tom Kostopoulos were arrested yesterday, and the first thing that jumped out at me as I read the police report was the time and place of the incident - 3 a.m. outside a bar.
Over the years, we’ve seen numerous stories about athletes running afoul of the law. The offences have run the gamut from players urinating in alleys to incidents where people have been killed. The two constants in many of those cases have been alcohol and late hours.
How come these incidents nev er take place at 3 p.m. in a library?
The legal system will decide whether O’Byrne is guilty of third-degree grand theft and whether Kostopoulos was out of bounds when he went to the defence of his teammate and was charged with resisting arrest without violence.
But the two have already been subjected to the court of public opinion and they’re both guilty of being stupid.
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To be fair, this hardly rises to the level of a strip-club shooting - or any shooting, for that matter. These are young(ish) men, and men that age will drink no matter what their occupation - what else are they supposed to do to socialize? It just so happens that their work hours lead to them naturally to be awake at 3:00 am because they don’t have to get up at 5:30 in the morning to be at work for the early shift.
That said, they were definitely grade-A stupid.
Although what I wonder is how wasted was the woman if she didn’t notice her purse missing until it was already outside the door.
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 02/12/08 at 12:29 PM ET
what I wonder is how wasted was the woman if she didn’t notice her purse missing until it was already outside the door.
Well, she was there at 3 A.M., too, wasn’t she…
Posted by BobTheZee on 02/12/08 at 01:38 PM ET
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