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That crazy Plax, part 52
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In what feels like an episode of Law & Order complete with references to Riker’s Island, there are even more astounding details emerging about the weapons case against Plaxico Burress in New York City..jpg)
If you’ll recall, Plax was arrested last year for bringing an unlicensed gun into a Manhattan night club; discovered only because the gun accidentally discharged, striking the NFL receiver in his own leg.
Since then, he’s rejected plea agreements presented to him by his lawyer with the notion that he can shake these charges all together.
According to NY Giants play-by-play man Bob Papa’s radio show (via ProFootballTalk.com) Plax is,
deathly afraid of going [to prison]. . . . [I]f he would have just taken the deal when it originally was offered it would all be over with by now. But supposedly the community service hours and the jail time are not appealing to him…
Community service isn’t appealing to him? Jail time isn’t appealing to him? They should make Plax record public service announcements that are shown to other football players as a warning against being a total moron. I bet Michael Vick didn’t find prison appealing either. Maybe we should set up a meeting between Plax and Vick’s shiny new electronic monitoring device and see what happens. I guess Vick would have to be there too because he’s physically attached to the device…at least for the next 90 days.
The deal Papa refers to apparently included only three months of jail time and about 1,500 hours of community service versus the possible three and a half years at Riker’s Island…which is literally an island housing 14,000 inmates.
So let us all learn these valuable lessons:
1) You cannot bring a gun into a nightclub (even in Tennessee…yet)
2) If you accidentally shoot yourself with an unlicensed gun, people WILL notice
3) You will go to prison when that gun goes off in said nightclub
4) Prison is horrible, you don’t want to go there.
2) If you accidentally shoot yourself with an unlicensed gun, people WILL notice
3) You will go to prison when that gun goes off in said nightclub
4) Prison is horrible, you don’t want to go there.
Maybe it will take a stay in Riker’s to teach Plax, but what’s going to stop the numerous other idiots that will inevitably follow in his footsteps?
What exactly is the NFL’s player development office doing up there in NYC? They should be educating players about the dangers of weapons, drinking and driving, domestic violence or anything else. Maybe then, we wouldn’t constantly be hearing about it.
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