Why should he be allowed to live and given 3 square meals a day? What he did is equivalent to firing a gun blindly in a public park. When you drive 156 on a local road you're going to likely kill someone.
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I think you are missing my point. Heck- I was going to post that he has a better chance of getting back on the field then RR did when he had his problem. When a player is in their prime and producing, it trumps all. See- Ray Lewis, Aaron Hernandez, Big Ben...I don't think Gruden ever gets back on a sideline or part of an organization again. Though he may be allowed back in a booth.
Forget the roads, did you make sure you were in the middle of cleaning your shotgun the first time you met the BF?
He’s clearly talking about the hypocrisy of the NFL. There are many examples. You really need to relax with the racist stuff. You go there way too often.
In NJ he would be facing 5-10 years with a 3 year minimum before parole eligibility. Assuming he does 5 years due to the horrific nature in which the victim died, he will be 29 years old when he gets out and out of the game for 5 years. Not sure how much interest any team would have in him at that point, not considering the bad PR for signing him.
I'm thinking he gets more as there are mult felonies. Manslaughter, the injury to his GF, DUI and the GUN. plus, keeping in mind he wasn.t .08 or something like that, he was .16 Don't get me wrong-.08 would still be wrong, bad and jail time but that is a huge difference. At that level- I know many people that may have had a couple of drinks over a period of time and 'felt' sober. This guy- was drunk and knew it. no excuses
Was the gun unregistered or otherwise illegal? I think it's dumb to mix guns and alcohol. But didn't see anything about the illegality of the weapon; just that it was present.
Nevada has much different gun laws including allowing concealed carry. I am guessing it is probably legal.
True, no mention if it was registered or not. Just that a loaded gun was found under the passenger seat. And for the life of me, registered or not- I really can't understand the culture of the NFL- (even the good guys) that they almost all feel the need to carry protection.
People, especially pro athletes or other people who draw a lot of attention, heading out drinking should leave the weapon(s) at home, along with the car. Or, since hanging out in places where there's lots of people engaged in heavy drinking dramatically increases the odds an altercation, just do the heavy drinking at home with friends.
It is true- and the other thing is that quite often, there will be some drunk fool that just wants to start a fight with pro athletes.
I believe everything was legal except for being in possession of a firearm while under the influence.
Yeah remember that time somebody messed with Plaxico in the club?? He was about to get robbed. Was a good thing he had his loaded piece on him.
I think there are some pretty bad gun laws out there. But that's a good gun law, IMO.
Shot himself in the leg, not Ck- and it happened walking up a dark stairwell to get to a private section of the club, he had stumbled, gun started slipping down his pant legs, he went to grab it and got it by the trigger and then spent 20 months in jail.
When you strap a gun to yourself like that, you should spend more time in jail. Could've easily blown some kids face off going down the stairs of a ritzy restaurant in the same manner.
In these situations the drunk usually walks away from the crash while the victim dies or is severely injured. Police have seen this over and over again.
You just can't find a way to defend a person so damn stupid. He even said it himself that his first thought was to look around the club to make sure he didn't hit anyone- had not even known he had shot himself at first.
It was reported that the impact pushed the Toyota over 570 feet before it came to a stop, so I would imagine that a good portion of the force of impact to the Corvette was decreased by the fact that the car he hit was able to move and was moving in the same direction... Had Ruggs hit something less moveable, or hit someone head on or even t-boned them, etc., the damage to his vehicle and to his passenger and himself would have been a lot worse. The fire is most likely why this particular tragic accident was fatal.
I am also guessing that at that rate of speed and he most likely started breaking hard, he front end was most likely on the ground and pretty much just carried the front vehicle with it. More than likely why it may have also caused the fire. There didnt look to be much impact damage to the front vehicle either.
I would suggest a new driver not drive with an animal in the car.
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If it IS a Rav4, could it be possible that the rear impact, along with the intense heat of the fire, affected the shape of the rear of the car? In the photos of the car, it looks like the opening for the rear window is a lot lower than it should be, which could mean that the car and body are misshapen and that the rear portion has tilted downward, which would make it look more like a Prius.
