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mick e is starting to wonder about this situation a little bit.
Plaxico Buress is a NFL wide receiver. He's a black dude who is perceived by many to be somewhat spoiled and attitudy. The guy was carrying an unlicensed firearm in a nightclub.
Stupid.
Then he accidently shot himself in the leg.
Stupider.
Then he tried to cover it up and pretend it never happened.
Extreme Stupidness.
The consequences of his actions? Well, he has lost MILLIONS of dollars. His job. Perhaps a career. He's got Bloomberg raging and ready to throw him into prison for YEARS.
Ouch.
Conversely, lets ponder the curious case of Dick Cheney - famous white guy executive/shadow figure.
He went on a "hunting" expedition that was an essential equivalent to shooting chickens in a barnyard.
Stupid.
He got drunk and fired his shotgun without consideration to basic hunting safety guidelines, shooting a fellow hunter IN THE FACE.
Stupider.
Then he tried to cover it up and pretend it never happened.
Extreme Stupidness.
The consequences of his actions? Well, none really.
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I was a real fan of his when he played for the steelers, and followed him when he went to the giants. He's always been somewhat erratic, performance-wise, so I wonder if we have the whole story. He's maybe been causing a lot of trouble for a while. That said, it does seem they're being a bit more harsh on him. Pacman didn't shoot anyone, but dang, how many chances does he get? Same with so many others. I don't really think it's racially motivated though. kj.
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"Plaxico Buress" sounds like a pharmaceutical manufacturer.
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I don't think these either Chaney nor Buress getting a slap on the wrist would be right, but sadly, neither one of these incidents is that terribly rare either. These sort of things happen to rednecks, experienced hunters, and gangsta wannabes all of them time, but we don't usually hear much about it. Maybe a quick blurb on the news, a couple of pages back in the newspaper, or posted as a joke on Fark - yet another example of Darwinism at work - but that's it, and then we never hear about it again.
That being said;
Buress was an idiot - why do men who have been given such a great opportunity with their lives feel the need to screw it up being so stupid?
Chaney is a negligent fool, who was very lucky he didn't kill that poor guy.
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Last weekend, the Giants looked like they didn't miss Plax one bit.
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>>why do men who have been given such a great opportunity with their lives feel the need to screw it up being so stupid?
because they're stupid?
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I don't think Burress should have been packing. However, I do not envy athletes like him--drunks are always trying to pick fights with elite athletes to prove how tough they are. I certainly don't blame athletes for traveling in packs or taking along a group of large and sinister-looking friends.
There was an incident a few years ago at a Baltimore nightclub that put a couple of Ravens, and several of their antagonists, in the hospital. It probably ended Michael McCrary's career, and that was too bad--he is a good guy.
Whatever happened that put Ray Lewis in trial for murder, it started with drunks trying to pick fights with him and his group. I do not blame the cops (in most cases) when they make allowances for athletes and other famous people--not in Lewis' case, of course, but generally, I think when one of these people hauls off and slugs someone it's well deserved.
In Cheney's case, Molly Ivins theorized that Cheney wanted a rarer trophy than quail, and so he winged the only liberal Republican in Texas.
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Good points Gutie.
In fact, Plax's teammate had just been held up at gunpoint previously - and the incident happened on the approximate one-year anniversary of Sean Taylor's death.
mick e has a hard time blaming him for wanting to protect himself. That said, there is a right way to go about things and a wrong way.
The bottom line, the only person hurt in Plax's accident was himself - and he hurt himself plenty. Prison is probably not necessary.
It's not like he accidently shot someone else in the face or anything.
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Both were accidental apparently. The difference being that Plax was doing something illegal at the time. I don't feel sorry for the idiot at all. There is absolutely no excuse for him to have that gun on him. he just as easily could have discharged the weapon and accidentally shot any number of people present.
I've no special place for Dick, either. Shame he and Plaxico don't hunt together.
