a messed up world ....... Michael Vick

[stealthycat II]

I just did a wordsearch on "Vick" in the title ....... and found quite a few hits.

Who was Michael Vick? Everyone knows ...... NFL star, dog fighting, sent to prison, lost career, endorsements, almost everything.

But why aren't we seeing thread after thread on Donte Stallworth?

Who is he you ask?

WR, use to be NO Saints, moved around to NE and with CLE right now ........ ran over and killed a man in Miami the other night, alcohol tests shows him "slightly" over the legal limit.

DUI manslaughter ..... and its not even registering a blip on the news or message boards.

Dog Fighting? Bigtime news, something we need to be concerned about.

Drinking and driving and killing someone? No big deal ......... []

[Steve863]

I have to agree with you. Maybe Vick was a better known athlete than this other idiot you mention but I find it ludicrous that such a big deal was made over Vick's case. Only in America will you get more jail time for killing a dog over a human being.

[XPatriot]

Maybe it's because Stallworth wasn't abusing animals, and getting PETA excited. Or, it could be that the economic collapse has folks concerned about other things.

[LBR]

If I remember correctly, someone brought this same subject up back during the "killer dog" threads some time ago.........didn't seem to be a really big deal then, at least to anyone except the person that brought it up........[:@]

At any rate, it's still downright pitiful that someone can, and does, get punished a lot worse for mistreating an animal than someone who kills another human being.

Chad

[ipscshooter]

ORIGINAL: LBR

If I remember correctly, someone brought this same subject up back during the "killer dog" threads some time ago.........didn't seem to be a really big deal then, at least to anyone except the person that brought it up........[:@]

At any rate, it's still downright pitiful that someone can, and does, get punished a lot worse for mistreating an animal than someone who kills another human being.

Chad

Vick was sentenced to 23 months. Stallworth will face DUI Manslaughter charge which carries up to a 15 year sentence. It's being reported he blew a .14 which is almost twice the legal limit. I'd bet he'll do more time than Vick and his football career is over. Vick will get out and sign on somewhere, and still make millions...

[Lanse couche couche]

Why the story does not have much leg to it? To wit:

1.Stallworth is not nearly as big of a name as Vick.

2.Stallworth was not confirmed as having been drunk until the story had already started to die down.

3.Many folks are concentrating on college basketball instead of pro football player scandals.

4.it has now reached the point where there is little or no surprise when an NFL player does something really stupid and violent.

5.It was a Hispanic human instead of a dog that was killed.

[LBR]

He might serve more time than Vick, he might not. The undeniable point was Vick got a lot more press over abusing dogs than this other guy got for killing another human being. There's all kinds of movements to ban some dog breeds, in some places they are banned--who's pushing to outlaw liquor?

I showed stats on the other thread that said pb's cause only slightly more deaths than vending machines. Nobody has to look to know that hundreds of thousands more deaths can be directly attributed to alchohol.

I'm not calling for a ban on either one, it's just funny to me that SC just now sees the irony in it.

Chad

[Lanse couche couche]

I will be the first to join the coalition to ban vending machines as soon as the first report comes out of a vending machine chewing its way out of a wooden fence and then mauling a toddler or elderly person.[8D]

[LBR]

Nice cast Lanse, but I ain't biting.

Chad

[Lanse couche couche]

I didn't think you would like the taste of that one anyway[:-]