Police: Vikings Player Arrested After Birthday Party Beating

CBS/AP ^ | April 28, 2012 9:04 PM | unattributed

[Hunton Peck]

Nothing good happens at 3:15 AM.

[nickcarraway]

Don’t Vikings do that sort of thing?

[Jonty30]

Professional athletes careers should end, upon the first conviction of a criminal act.

[denydenydeny]

Things appeared to be going well until 3:15 a.m., when the victim allegedly told King he looked like a celebrity. King took offense to the remark and followed the victim to a car.

The new "c-word": celebrity.

[tomkat]

Hey Caleb !
For future brawl reference, 'celebrity' is a kinda compliment thing, sorta.

Yo

[MichaelCorleone]

I wonder if the homeowners could be liable in any way for refusing to call the police when the victim asked them to.

[Hunton Peck]

As a part-Norwegian, it does kinda make me a little misty-eyed thinking about the good old days.

Pillaging, burning villages, hearing the lamentations of their women...

Where have all the good times gone?

[Jonty30]

I believe, in most places, a home owner would be responsible for this, because he didn’t take reasonable steps to prevent it.

[Clay Moore]

ping

What is this world coming to when you can not conduct a beating at a birthday party? The nerve of some people.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Hunton Peck.

...when the victim initially tried to call 911, authorities were able to track the phone’s location and send an officer. When police arrived at the scene, the homeowner said there had been no problem at the party and that no one needed help. As the homeowner spoke with police, the victim was inside his home, suffering from his injuries.

[Ken H]

Caleb King

[davius]

He looks a lot like that guy who used to play for the Vikings.

[Revolting cat!]

Ghetto doofus thought ‘celebrity’ was a diss!

[Charles Henrickson]

Hey, that guy looks like some sort of celebrity!

[Jonty30]

Hmmm. No description of victim.

[fluorescence]

The victim, a Coon Rapids man whom police have not identified, is in serious condition at Mercy Hospital. Police say he suffered fractures on his face and skull – injuries that required more than 50 stitches to close.

...

Police arrested King at the house without incident. He denied that he punched the victim, saying that the man just fell over while the two were talking.

Well that's believable.

[PAR35]

Was the celebrity in question Liberace?

[Revolting cat!]

Come to think of it, dude does look like a would-be-ex-celebrity!

[Jonty30]

I’m wondering if the Vikings could be liable for knowingly hiring a player with criminal convictions in his past?

[PAR35]

a Coon Rapids man

That sounds a bit politically incorrect.