Sprints Won't Be Riding Taxis With Georgia Football Players // 04.02.10
by cocknfire on Apr 2, 2010 11:22 AM EDT
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PrintGeorgia football players are terrorists!
Not really. Four individuals who might be Georgia football players allegedly made terroristic threats on a taxi-van Saturday night. Talk about sentences I never expected to write.
Capt. Clarence Holman said Thursday that he has re-interviewed one witness and plans to conduct further interviews in a case in which a married couple claims they were physically and verbally abused during a taxi-van ride home from downtown Athens early Sunday morning. ...
"Right now, it's speculation," coach Mark Richt said Thursday night. "We don't know anything for sure, but I'm aware of the report. I'm just waiting to see what's going to happen from here really. I don't want to over or under react at this point." ...
The couple told police they entered a taxi at 2 a.m. on Sunday near the Mellow Mushroom. The taxi driver picked up three intoxicated white men downtown and then four black men carrying bratwursts in front of The Grill.
The husband told one of the men, who sat behind the couple, that the brats smelled good and asked how much they cost.
"Shut up you stupid white racist (expletive)," the man replied, according to the report.
Mellow Mushroom? Bratwursts? Are we sure these people weren't tripping?
In case you were wondering, Hale reports that this is not an April Fools' Day joke. Which makes you wonder: What are Georgia football players -- or any other self-respecting people -- doing riding in a taxi-van?
Watch your verb tense there
John Wall and Kentucky head coach and noted humanitarian John Calipari talk about Mr. Wall's post-college plans ... er, potential post-college plans.
Calipari appeared to let the cat out of the bag during the ceremony when he told the gathering that Wall wanted to be the first player to "leave after one year and still get his degree."[para] But Wall denied that he has made a final decision or that he has signed with an agent.
"I had a great time at Kentucky, and I haven't made my decision yet," Wall said. "I'll make it in the next week or two."
Had a great time? That kind of gives it away, no?
It'll still be a few years before everyone in Tuscaloosa is required to have a picture of him in their home
Nick Saban's statue will be "unveiled" in August.
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The Mellow Mushroom is delicious.
The one in Fayetteville is, at least. Don’t hate.
What I find strange is that the victims don’t know the cab drivers name, but they had his personal cell number, according to the police report.
Maybe they had his name written down
but couldn’t pronounce it? Or maybe he gave them a ride earlier and he told them to call them next time they needed a lift and with his number they typed in “cabbie” in their cell phone?
When I lived in Athens
My roommates and I had several personal cell numbers of taxi-van drivers of guys that were really cool to us (cheap fare and fast service) but we often made up names for them
by knowshon loves legos on Apr 2, 2010 2:22 PM EDT up reply actions
Riding in a taxi van
I don’t get questioning the act of riding in a taxi van. Isn’t that how people who don’t want to get busted for DUI get around in college towns? We were doing it in Athens back in the ’80s when I was in school. I figured it was the thing to do.
Maybe it's just an Athens thing, but I assumed taxi-vans were quite common.
That said, they are an adventure. Van full of drunks headed for disparate places, plus a puke bucket —> hijinks ensue.
Por ejemplo: One fine evening the in mid-90s, the driver got out to deal with an altercation and a friend of mine leapt over the front and commando’d the driver’s seat, announcing to the rest of us that we were going to Panama City. At 2:30 a.m. Sunday morning, this announcement was greeted as you’d expect — enthusiastically. More disputing, more cops, yada yada yada sprinting through campus laughing hysterically and we’re home.
The reaction to this is fascinating
I don’t recall riding a taxi van once in college. Perhaps this was because I was a DD for my friends much of the time, but I don’t even recall much talk of a taxi-van. Maybe this is an Athens thing, or an outside Columbia thing …
I just think they look fairly ridiculous. Why not just get an actual taxi?
Team Speed Kills. All SEC, all the time.
Head room.
Dum spiro spero - "While I breathe, I hope"
State motto of South Carolina
by The Feathered Warrior on Apr 2, 2010 4:32 PM EDT up reply actions
Think about this from the cab's perspective.
You’re a cabby in a city with a 100k population, 30k of which are college students who take the bus or have cars. Everyone flies out of Hartsfield in Atlanta, and that’s no cab ride.
Basically, 99% of your business case is hauling drunks, nearly all of which can be scooped up within a 10-block area and deposited within a two-mile radius of a 4500-acre campus. If that’s not a use case for a van, I don’t know what is.
A sedan is a waste of a cab permit in Athens.
by aproposdenada on Apr 2, 2010 4:54 PM EDT up reply actions
Fair enough
I have no quarrel with the taxi-van-riding population.
By the way, thanks very much to those who commented politely here.
Team Speed Kills. All SEC, all the time.
To add another taxi-van mix to the thread
Which makes you wonder: What are Georgia football players — or any other self-respecting people — doing riding in a taxi-van?
On Air Force bases a lot of Airmen also use taxi-vans. Especially in tech schools because most peoples cars are still at home a couple thousand miles away.
"When you argue correctly, you're never wrong."-Nick Naylor
It’ll still be a few years before everyone in Tuscaloosa is required to have a picture of him in their home.
now that’s simply unfair. why the hell would they legislate something everyone does already?
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Keeps any Auburn interloopers from setting up shop in town?
"In case you're wondering what the offense should look like, that wasn't it." - Urban Meyer
I'll take riding a taxi van
Over getting a DUI the week before the SECCG
Tim Tebow 2010.
Bring the hate.
Feed the beast.
by GoGators15 on Apr 3, 2010 8:43 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
No way Wall comes back, but
do you really believe a grammatical error in his speech proves he has made up his mind?
I’m going to go out on a limb and guess he has a few problems with verb tense, subject-verb agreement, and everything else littered throughout his everyday speech.
by GwinnettGamecock on Apr 3, 2010 8:58 PM EDT reply actions
How did they know they were football players?
Either way I feel sorry for that couple, I would of told the taxi driver to drive to the police station!
"When you argue correctly, you're never wrong."-Nick Naylor
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