Michael Vick et al
August 16, 2007
While this is not usually in line with things I comment about I simply could not resist saying something about Michael Vick. He must be the most idiotic person in the world to potentially ruin his football career because he was not able to find a proper financial adviser. Dog fighting? Is that really the proper place for someone with many many millions of dollars to be putting money? Was this not obvious to him? Did he even have a financial adviser at all? Exactly how did he plan to report all of that illegal income? This guy really must be the absolute most stupid person playing football today and that is saying a great deal, I think.
Here in Hawaii we have not been hit with the tsunami (which is quite good) from the Peru earthquake. We did, however, have an earthquake at 2:20 this morning which woke us up and sent us into the doorway. I think it was a 3.8 - something like that.  We are well.
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Michael Vic’s problem is, he was, and continues to be, a thug from “The streets”. Such thug-ish behavior should not have been rewarded with an NFL contract. Then NFL, in fact, knew about his previous history, and had made notes that he is to have a close eye kept on him. Aparently, not close enough.
In addition, after he ‘made it’ to the NFL, he continued to associate with his thug buddies as well, who continued to commit mayhem and such.
Really not that bright of a guy, that’s for damn sure. Funny side note, some convict in South Carolina or somewhere is suing Vic to the tune of $63,000,000,000, yes BILLION. The suit alleges that Vic stole pit bulls from the guy, then sold them on ebay…….. so he could buy missiles…. from Iran…. He wants his money in gold and silver.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,293268,00.html
Glad that you guys made it through the non-hurricane and earthquakes. What are you going to do with 20 cups of rice? dry them out and make rice crispy treats for the neighborhood kids?
comment by Dan — August 16, 2007 @ 8:35 pm
Oh yeah, I forgot… PETA started an advertising campaign to make people aware of the horrors of dogfighting. Their commercial spokesperson? Professional boxer. I applaud the organization’s goal, but don’t care much for extreamist groups and methods.
Also, keep your eyes peeled for the Michael Vic chew toy. If I had dogs, I’d buy a case of them. Seems they can’t keep them in stock they sell so well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBuEBHi3BzU
Made short work of it too.
comment by Dan — August 16, 2007 @ 8:40 pm
I had no idea that Vick had a past record of criminal behavior…
The Vick chew toy was …interesting. It just looks like a beanie baby though. Are they making actual chew toys?
I think PETA is calming down more these days - they are doing more demonstrations and I haven’t heard of them doing anything crazy. It is probably because knowledge of these sorts of things is more public these days - people actually care that animals are being mistreated, tested on, etc. (But somehow they manage not to care about eating them).
comment by katy — August 17, 2007 @ 9:46 am
Yup, they’re real chew toys intended for canine retaliation. I thought it was a nice piece of asshole justice myself.
As for PETA… somehow I got on their mailing list. That’s what I get for making a donation to a wildlife preservation foundation a few years ago. Give them $50 ant PETA starts sending you fliers and letters. Wonder what they’d think if they knew I was an NRA member? Oh well, one extremist organization to another anyway.
Heard on the news today that the Atlanta Humane Society has been receiving Michael Vick jerseys and t shirts as donations from people. At first, they didn’t know what to do with them. The management basically said “Well, what else do we do with donations like this? Rags!”. So, Vic’s jerseys are being used to clean up after the animals, or in some cases, made into bedding.
Oh and that loony in SC? He’s now suing Barry Bonds, and a few other people in the MLB for steroid usage. He’s also suing Hank Aaron’s bat. Not Hank, just his bat. You thought the Michael Vick one was ridiculous, this one’s worse.Here’s the story;
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The prisoner who made headlines by filing a “63,000,000,000 billion dollar” lawsuit against NFL quarterback Michael Vick is at it again, this time suing new home run king Barry Bonds, Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig and a character unable to defend itself — Hank Aaron’s bat.
The latest bizarre suit filed Aug. 13 by inmate Jonathan Lee Riches — who is in federal prison in South Carolina for wire fraud — is for “42,000,000 million dollars in Swiss Francs” and alleges that Bonds and Selig are enmeshed in a conspiracy involving steroids to boost TV ratings, according to the complaint, posted on Court TV’s TheSmokingGun.com.
Click here to see the lawsuit.
Selig, under the supervision of Sammy Sosa, has for years been secretly giving Bonds steroids, Riches writes.
Oh, and Robert Novak and Judith Miller are also involved. They have the transcripts of the clandestine meetings between Selig and Bonds (taped by Riches), during which Selig slipped Bonds steroids under the table, the inmate’s rambling complaint states.
What crime did the bat commit, you ask?
“Barry Bonds uses Hank Aaron’s corked bat during ballgames,” writes Riches in the claim. “The bat has a secret chambers [sic] where Barry stores his HGH supplements. Bonds takes them while he awaits [sic] in the batters box.”
Bonds also used the errant bat — which Riches says he won at a Sotheby’s auction in 1998 — to crack the Liberty Bell, the lawsuit states.
Riches also says Bonds left him a threatening message on his iPhone, bench-pressed him against his will to show off in front of his buddies, got him indicted because he threatened to expose his steroid and cocaine abuse and even sold steroids to nuns.
The lawsuit accuses the defendants of a host of charges, including “bat assault,” “treason,” “terrorism” and “major fraud.”
Riches wants the court to impose a “preliminary injunction temporary restraining order against the broadcast of MLB games, all defendant’s [sic], defendant’s pets and associates from any future contact with plaintiff.”
He asks that the “42,000,000 million” in Swiss Francs be delivered in a certified money order to the “B.O.P. Lockbox in Des Moines, Iowa.”
This claim, filed in U.S. District Court in Indiana, is the 17th federal complaint Riches has brought since January 2006 in 15 different jurisdictions. The Smoking Gun theorized he has been switching states to avoid getting in trouble for filing too many frivolous suits in the same jurisdiction.
The MLB said officials there hadn’t seen Riches’ complaint.
“We’re not aware of it, so I don’t think it would be appropriate to comment,” said MLB spokesman Richard Levin.
Last month’s lawsuit against Vick, whose co-defendants pleaded guilty to dogfighting charges on Friday, claims the Atlantic Falcons star stole Riches’ pit bulls and sold them on eBay to buy missiles from Iran.
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42,000,000 in Swiss Franks. Cracking the Liberty Bell, selling steroids to nuns. This guy’s a riot. I almost want to meet him. Should write for Southpark or something.
comment by Dan — August 17, 2007 @ 7:56 pm