Posted on 11/14/2014 4:34:34 PM PST by PROCON
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — In the early morning hours of Oct. 5, as this college town was celebrating another big football victory by Florida State University, a starting cornerback on the team drove his car into the path of an oncoming vehicle driven by a teenager returning home from a job at the Olive Garden.
Both cars were totaled. But rather than remain at the scene as the law requires, the football player, P. J. Williams, left his wrecked vehicle in the street and fled into the darkness along with his two passengers, including Ronald Darby, the team’s other starting cornerback.
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I wonder if O.J. ever had something like that happen to him? Look where he ended up.
NY Tines editors should be in jail also.
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But...I’m sure that the hard-working kid coming home from his job won’t have to work quite so hard at his new $500/hr, 10 hours per week consulting job this summer at some alumnus’s company...
FSU is in the hunt for a national championship so nobody is going to do anything to these players. If the Seminoles had a few losses and were out of the national title picture Coach Jimbo Fisher, FSU administration, and Tallahassee police would have no problem dropping the hammer on these players. Another sign of our banrupt culture.
Remember the SMU scandal back in the '80's?
Maybe he was suffering form Affluenza.
There, fixed it.
They don’t call them the CRIM-I-NOLES for nothing.
winning football games is more important.
Not the first case like this, there is way too much hero worship of sports stars which leads them to think they can get away with anything. This may be because they can. Look at O. J.; he literally got away with murder; twice!
Football State University.
This is FSU after all, they have different rules than everyone else.
Did they check to see if the person in the other vehicle was okay? If someone had died or been seriously injured, would that have been a hit and run?
The Tallahassee Police Department needs a cleansing.
I’m shocked that they didn’t find some way to charge the Olive Garden employee with the accident.
The kids who excel at some sport are given a pass in and for all other activities by nearly every school in America.It was that way back in the 70s in my little high school where the victim of locker room homosexual rape was the one forced out of school.And the whole incident hushed up because of who the perpetrators were.
It is disgusting.
Sadly, the coaches and atheletic department allow an environment of criminalism to flourish in the FSU football program.
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Yes. Very sad.
The worm turns when they graduate, however. With the exception of the very few who make it in pro sports, they will never regain their glory days. Nobody really cares any more.
Ahh, schadenfreude!
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