Here’s an email I got today:
The world is a crazy place!
Last evening the Capital Regiment [Drum and Bugle Corps] was rehearsing at the Northern Illinois University stadium in DeKalb, IL which was under contract for them to do so…. A football coach decided that the team should have the field and instructed his team to literally storm the field. The football players apparently had pads and helmets on the corps kids had nothing of course. Some corps kids were taken to the hospital but all seem to be okay today…. One of the coaches was arrested. There may have been more arrests I do not know for sure. It was all caught on video.
Also, it looks like we’re talking about a college football team and a drum corps with mostly high school students.
All I can say about that is I’m glad the coach got arrested. I hope that a) he never, EVER works as a coach again (or in any educational institution, for that matter, except as maybe a janitor), and b) with any luck, he’ll be sodomized in jail. Jerk.
Here is the ESPN article about the incident, just published.
Since when do two wrongs make a right, Darren? I hope you never find yourself in a position where someone else inflicts a punishment on you that doesn’t necessarily fit your actions…..
that is terrible…. i hope they’re able to perform alright!
Now, wait a minute. How does that not fit in with this man’s actions?
a guy tells his football team to take the field during a drum corps rehearsal and you think he should be sodomized in jail? Yeah, the guy is a jerk, and yes he should be fired and arrested and whatnot, but sodomized in jail….? Honestly, Darren….
Hey….sometimes I think people need to be taught a lesson. Imagine the kind of person that guy is. I can imagine it…I knew guys like that. I knew guys who probably grew up to be that guy. And you know what….they DESERVE that. Maybe it would teach them not to treat other people the way they do. If someone with that kind of bullshit macho attitude who is probably a raging homophobe and assumes that all of those “band-weirdos” are “fags” anyway…if something like that happened to him…yeah, I think it WOULD teach him a lesson. Fine him, put him in jail….afterwards, he’ll still sit around with his buddies over a beer and laugh about how he really flattened those geeks. Actions should have consequences….
“Maybe it would teach them not to treat other people the way they do.”
So… let me see if I have this down…. your method of teaching this guy how to treat people better is to treat him with violence? How does that make you any better than him? Who’s going to teach YOU how to treat people better?
Haven’t we already had this discussion…?
I think we have. 🙂 I think we would probably have to agree to disagree on this one.
uh… something like that.
Hey Spike…. this story got mentioned in Newsweek….something in the notable quotes of the week….