If the "Pacman Jones Memorial Award for Moron Excellence" was a real award, then Plaxico Burress would be a lock for it in 2009. Someone needs to tell him that it isn't real, and even if it was, it's nothing that smart people want to have.
Plaxico Burress has been involved with the police at least seven times since August 2008. He's been sued at least nine times since 2000. He has gun-possession charges above his head right now. So a guy like him saying, "I know the sheriff personally," isn't exactly a good thing. All that means is, he's been involved in Plaxico's arrest enough times for them to have a deep conversation.
Yet, those are the words that he chose to throw at the Broward County Deputy Sheriff who stopped him for speeding on March 18th. I guess, in Plaxico's mind, his rapport with the sheriff is going to get that speeding ticket thrown out, because being cool with the sheriff clearly means that he can act an ass whenever he wants to. He doesn't have to obey traffic laws, which is why he's had five such violations in the past month.
You know, the Duke Boys knew Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane personally. Didn't stop him from trying to arrest them on bootlegging charges.
Kind of makes me wonder why Plaxico never got in good with the police in New York, since he was going to carry guns around in a city that has a mandatory three year sentence for carrying guns. Maybe if he had, they wouldn't have been so quick to arrest him, because everyone knows that cops that you know personally always cover for you. Even when he's living in a fantasy land, Plaxico is still really stupid.
That's what separates Plaxico Burress from Michael Vick. I've had people tell me that New York is going to make an example out of him because he's black. I've had people tell me that Plaxico is a victim. And we need to go on and kill all that noise right now.
Michael Vick committed a crime and deserved to be punished, however, the sentence he received was viewed by many (okay, by black people) to be excessive. He killed dogs, which set off a firestorm of outrage by dog lovers everywhere and unleashed that band of lunatics known as PETA upon the sane-thinking world. Meanwhile, Leonard Little killed another human being and not only was everyone okay with it, he never even missed any playing time. It was all so logical, because as we know, dogs are worth more to people than people are.
On the other hand, Plaxico Burress shot himself in the leg in a nightclub with a gun that is illegal to have anywhere in the city, then tried to cover the whole thing up. Why he needed a gun in the club is irrelevant, because he was going to be in the VIP all night, anyway. So, unless he was afraid that the groupies that were joining him were actually terrorists, I think the bouncers at the door were enough security.
I believe that an example was made of Michael Vick and as a result, he lost everything. Plaxico Burress could have just hired bodyguards and none of this would have happened. He's had a long history of not being very bright, so let's not try to turn Plaxico into some kind of hero or political prisoner, when he's really just a guy who wasn't enough smart enough realize that sweatpants can't even hold up a cell phone, let alone a 10-pound gun.
He couldn't put out $90 for a holster. Plaxico's not gonna do three years because he's a victim; Plaxico's gonna do three years because he's simple.
i heart mike vick & this piece *thumbs up*
I will send dogs to your house
yo, this is a good write-up. totally appreciate this.
good stuff.
Simple = Dumb
I agree 100% wholeheartedly....but....3 years for gun possession is wild! If its the law in NY, so be it, but DIZZAMN! Who passed that shit!? LOL!
Plax also turned down a new deal with NY. What world is he living in?
I think you're totally right about Plax, but dead wrong about Vick.
The big problem with what you say about Mike Vick is that you're minimizing his crime. Not only did he bankroll a criminal enterprise and actively participate in it -- by executing dogs that wouldn't fight when he could have just driven them to the pound -- but the enterprise in question is particularly bloody, brutal and pathological.
Here's the truth about dogfighting that you're missing:
Dogs don't naturally want to kill other dogs. In fact, they go to great efforts to *not* kill each other. So in order to make dogfighting possible, the dogs are tortured and traumatized until they're insane. You heard me right: Vick paid money to have men torture dogs until they went crazy from the torment.
Often, dogs are taught to enjoy the taste of each others' flesh and blood by feeding them much smaller, weaker dogs, or they're starved until they're ready to eat anything and then thrown the corpse of a dog killed for that express purpose.
Next, dogfighting is a vicious are gore-filled sport. We're talking about ruined ears, wrecked eyeballs dangling from their sockets, blood spraying from severed arteries, bones crushed to flinders and broken entrails spilling from slashed abdomens. THAT is what happens in a dogfighting ring. The fights are so brutal that often the *winner* is euthanized because he's not worth the money it would take to have a vet stitch him back together again.
Finally, "dogfighting" is a bit of a misnomer, because that's not all that actually goes on when you run a dogfighting ring. Sure, the main events are big dogs duking it out, but there are also novelty acts thrown in for variety, like "Great Dane vs. Miniature Poodle".
Dogfighting isn't just illegal, it's pathological, and the people involved with it are sick in the head.
Like child molesters, sociopaths like Vick have no real prospect of reforming themselves. Odds that he'll be involved again with gory violence are, on the other hand, are really good.
*That* is why so many people think that Vick's sentence was inadequate, and why it's totally inappropriate to put him back into the position of role model *ever*.