You can RENT a Hat, and RENT a whore, and even a stripper, 20 year old boys do such things. WHY does the FR world think that these poor choices are excusable and that there is no need to suffer the consequences of one's poor choices. Nifong was absolutely wrong, the press judged the guys before they had a trial, the law was put aside, but PLEASE, please...things happen to people when they do things that they know deep down inside isn't the WISE thing to do. Are we teaching University kids to be WISE....or foolish. So Pro Football athletes get gunned down at 3 a.m, in a Hummer, that carousing crowd gets out of hand. Anyone who rents a stripper that is a psycho liar, and gets drunk, needs to know that they put themselves in a precarious position. Dumb kids. Stupid. I guess though they did have fun.
So I take it that you inhabit Uranus?
You’re just completely missing the point. They were FALSELY accused of committing a crime. A serious one. It didn’t matter whether Crystal was a stripper, an Avon lady, or delivering pizza. It would have been all the same. She made a false allegation. A university president & members of faculty made a rush to judgment in order to cater to a segment of the community. An overly ambitious DA took advantage of the situation to get elected. The fact that she is a stripper has nothing to do with it.
Different actions have different ranges of possible natural consequences. Should a person who decides to juggle flaming torches in a sandpit, without any particular idea of how to catch them properly, complain if his hands or arms get burned? No--such injuries would be a natural and expected consequence of his actions. Should he complain if the BATF declared that a stick with a burning rag on the end was a "destructive device" and decided to shoot his dogs and burn down his house with a pyrotechnic tear gas grenade? I'd say he should. While it's true that juggling flaming torches isn't exactly prudent, that doesn't mean one shouldn't complain if the consequences go well beyond any reasonable causal relationship.
Just as a thought, don't you think that just consequences should be somewhat proportionate to the actions? Do you actually consider that the nightmare that these boys have gone through, for no reason, is proportionate to hiring a stripper, or even using the N* word? Which these are the guys that did it.
Ugh, rent a hat?
Gross.
Get someone else's dandruff that way. Or lice.
Yuck.