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Florida’s Erving Walker Arrested for . . . Stealing Taco, Running From Cops With a Taco

If you’re gonna go, GO BIG, right? University of Florida starting guard Erving “The Thief” Walker went on a crime rampage near the Gainesville campus, ordering a taco from a street vendor and then running off before paying.  A nearby SWAT Team gave pursuit (okay the police report doesn’t say anything about a SWAT Team, but it makes for good visuals) and eventually, with the assistance of several squad cars ran down the basketball star.

When questioned by police about his reason for the crime spree, Walker told them he was “just playing around” as in, it was a joke, or prank, or more likely just the kind of thing a stupid person says who gets caught stealing a $2 food item that will likely give them diarrhea later.  Walker now faces charges of with petty theft and resisting an officer without violence, both of which are misdemeanors.

No word on what happened to the taco, but police insiders suggest the evidence in this case may have been swallowed.

Source – USA Today

Bulldogs Winning Without Their Mascot

Butler BulldogsOne of the things that captured the most attention during Butler’s run to the NCAA Tournament final last year was their mascot, Blue II, who is a staple at Butler home games (and some road games). The Bulldogs all pat their mascot as they’re being introduced, but the NCAA ruled that no live mascots would be allowed in arenas during the regional games. However, Butler is still overcoming the March Madness lines that are against him, and if they get far enough, Blue II may still make another appearance at the Big Dance.

The Bulldogs haven’t made things easy on themselves, as they needed a last-second putback by Matt Howard to take down Old Dominion, then they disposed of the first No.1 seed in the Tournament, Pittsburgh, in one of the craziest endings you’ll ever wish to see in a game, capped off by a converted free-throw attempt by Howard. The Bulldogs now move onto the Sweet Sixteen, where they were go up against Wisconsin in what should be another close game, but this is a battle-tested team who has been through a lot over the last two seasons, especially in the postseason. They’re not going to back down from anyone, and if they made it to Championship Monday as a fifth seed last year, they can definitely get back to the Final Four as an eighth seed.

If they return to the Final Four, the NCAA has said they would consider allowing Blue II to be a part of the festivities once again. The argument is that there isn’t a quick enough turnaround time in the regional games, and there wasn’t enough space with all the teams in the Tournament. But with four teams left, it wouldn’t be a problem, so the Bulldogs have some added motivation in their back pockets.

Guess the Crime: UW Basketball Player Has Sex With Two 16-Year-Old Girls After Giving Them Alcohol Hint: It Happened in Seattle

Dumbass Category LogoAnswer? Furnishing alcohol to a minor.

It was a surprise to me, I thought the age of consent did not go below 17 anywhere in the U.S. I was wrong, because in Seattle the age of consent is sixteen. Still, It appears as if the police were looking to charge Venoy Overton, age 22 and a University of Washington men’s basketball team player, with some kind of sex charge on Tuesday, after charging him with furnishing alcohol to a minor. The article keeps saying that the girls stories did not collaborate, and that police decided to forgo any sex charges. Apparently one of the girls went to the police some time later after the incident and told them she was “compelled into a sex act” with Overton.

From The Seattle Times:

The girl who later brought her case to Seattle police said she was compelled into a sex act with Overton after seeing her friend engage in the same act with him, the report said.

She later told police “it just happened,” according to the report.

The King County Prosecutor’s Office said the decision to forgo sex charges against Overton was based on a review of statements by witnesses, including the girl’s friend and two other men who were in the apartment, according to a memo outlining the decision. Overton told police that the girl never said “no” to any sex acts, the memo said.

King County Senior Deputy Prosecutor Carol Spoor called the case “highly problematic” because the girl participated in sex acts under “situational pressure.” State law, Spoor wrote, “places the burden on the victim to clearly communicate a lack of consent to the suspect, which she did not do.”

This is pretty much the tone of the entire article. It makes clear that the girls were of age and gave consent. It refers to “sex acts” and “sex charges”. It dances and tip-toes around one word: rape. If the age of consent is sixteen, and one girl brought her case to police, and they decided against ‘sexual charges’, what does that mean?  To me, it means one of the girls decided to go for the gold, tell police she had been raped, and get a big, fat payday. Probably more accurate to say is a lawyer told her to, and is probably telling her right now to sue anyway, because they can still get some bucks out of this, maybe television, a book deal, who knows?

Oops, I just looked down and saw that I accidentally got on my soap box.

Let’s talk about the future for a second. I just saw a post that Justin Holiday, senior co-captain for UW, suffered a concussion during Saturday’s game against USC. After Overton’s charge on Tuesday, Coach Lorenzo Lamar suspended him for the Pacific-10 Conference tournament. So it is very possible that UW may have to play Thursday’s game without their senior guard and their senior co-captain. That would definitely be a setback.