OT: Colts punter arrested for public intox after swim

[Southpaw]

Sometimes you just can't win. Dude wasn't driving, didn't give false info and still arrested. I don't get it.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/20/AR2010102001488.html?wpisrc=nl_bleacherreport

Colts punter arrested for public intox after swim

The Associated Press
Wednesday, October 20, 2010; 8:35 AM

INDIANAPOLIS -- Indianapolis Colts punter Pat McAfee was arrested for public intoxication after he reportedly took a pre-dawn swim in a canal in a nightlife district.

Police arrested McAfee about 5 a.m. Wednesday in the Broad Ripple neighborhood and took him to an arrest processing center.

Officers say the 23-year-old, second-year player from West Virginia had a blood-alcohol content of 0.15 - nearly twice the level to be considered legally intoxicated.....

Officers asked McAfee if he had been swimming in the canal and he said "I am not sure," according to a police report. They asked him how he got wet and he said it had been raining, then told officers that his shirt was "in the water."

Police asked McAfee how much he had to drink.
"A lot cause I am drunk," McAfee said, according to the report.

McAfee told police that he was waiting for a friend to get him and added he planned to take a taxi home, the report said. He asked if he could walk home, but officers arrested him. They say he smelled of alcohol, his eyes were watery and bloodshot and his speech slurred. Officers said they had to help McAfee stand up after giving him a breath alcohol test.....

 

[Black Jesus]

My second favorite punter in the league.

 

[Mulli]

You have favorite punters?

 

[TheHopToad]

Yeah, I don't get the public intoxication thing. So everyone who is smart enough to not drink and drive is still going to get arrested because they're drunk in public? He couldn't walk home? They could have just given him a ride home, no questions asked.

All this is going to do is encourage more people to risk it and drive home after a night of drinking. It shouldn't be a crime unless he was being abusive or harassing people, and there are other charges for that.

Bravo to McAfee for making the right choice not to drive.

 

[Mulli]

I am thinking that the swimming in the canal was the problem.

 

[Derm]

No PI laws here in AZ. They were struck down many years ago. It proves that you CAN go through life fat, drunk and stupid. Dean Wormer

 

[Southpaw]

I am thinking that the swimming in the canal was the problem.

But they didn't see him swimming and unless it was a trespassing thing for swimming, I still don't get it. I live in Florida and being drunk and swimming are not mutually exclusive activities.

 

[Mulli]

But they didn't see him swimming and unless it was a trespassing thing for swimming, I still don't get it. I live in Florida and being drunk and swimming are not mutually exclusive activities.

Officers asked McAfee if he had been swimming in the canal and he said "I am not sure," according to a police report. They asked him how he got wet and he said it had been raining, then told officers that his shirt was "in the water."

They didn't have to see him swimming.

 

[Southpaw]

Officers asked McAfee if he had been swimming in the canal and he said "I am not sure," according to a police report. They asked him how he got wet and he said it had been raining, then told officers that his shirt was "in the water."

and you said;

They didn't have to see him swimming.

Where is the crime?

 

[Mulli]

and you said;



Where is the crime?

Swimming in the canal? I dunno. Who cares?

 

[Shane]

Wally,

Why are you asking what he was arrested for. You clearly state you know exactly why he was arrested in your thread title. The swimming is completely irrelevant!

 

[Mulli]

Wally,

Why are youvasking what he was arrested for. You clearly state you know exactly why he was arrested in your thread title. The swimming is cometely irrelevant!

I agree.

 

[Southpaw]

I agree.

I disagree. False arrest.

 

[Mulli]

The Indiana public intox statute requires:

...the State to prove that the defendant is in a public place and in a state of intoxication caused by the defendant’s use of alcohol.

 

[Reddog]

What is it with Colts kickers? Didn't their fieldgoal kicker blame alchaol on a drunken radio rant insulting and challenging teamates and coaches?

 

[TheHopToad]

The Indiana public intox statute requires:

...the State to prove that the defendant is in a public place and in a state of intoxication caused by the defendant’s use of alcohol.

Then all they have to do is setup a checkpoint outside the exits of all bars on Friday and Saturday nights.

 

[LoyaltyisaCurse]

WWI

 

[Southpaw]

Then all they have to do is setup a checkpoint outside the exits of all bars on Friday and Saturday nights.

and the bar could be charged with aiding and abetting.

 

[JCSunsfan]

Sometimes you just can't win. Dude wasn't driving, didn't give false info and still arrested. I don't get it.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/20/AR2010102001488.html?wpisrc=nl_bleacherreport

This guy is lucky he didn't drown.

 

[Black Jesus]

You have favorite punters?

Now I do.

 

[Mulli]

Now I do.

 

[RugbyMuffin]

You have favorite punters?

You don't ?



If you are going to get drunk and do something stupid at least do it right.

This guy did it right.

I love his answer to the cops about how much he drank! LOL.

Stupid, but harmless.


.......................then we ate some mescaline and went swimming.

 

[Brighteyes]

If he had been a Redskin punter -- or if the skins had beaten the Colts, would he have been arrested?

 

[Duckjake]

Then all they have to do is setup a checkpoint outside the exits of all bars on Friday and Saturday nights.

Wow, how many Paddy Wagons do they need for each Colts game? The Police could just walk down the rows of cars and haul people off by the 1000s.

$100 fine for PI times 30,000 times 10 games = THIRTY MILLION. Not bad.

 

[Southpaw]

You don't ?



If you are going to get drunk and do something stupid at least do it right.

This guy did it right.

I love his answer to the cops about how much he drank! LOL.

Stupid, but harmless.

Ta da! My point exactly. And because of this he is suspended one game and a paycheck. Wow. Maybe the Colts should be consistent and ban alcohol sales at their stadium.