Before looking at TFA I'm going to guess the kid.

Awesome. I can see the future.*


_{*subject to predictability.}

go USA!
go USA!
go USA!

Well, the kid turned out to be a good-for-nothing little punk thug. But lots of kids do.

I'm not seeing an obvious connection between his current crime and the earlier basketball affair. Looks (for now) like a coincidence, nothing more.

It wouldn't surprise me if he or his attorney used it as an excuse, though, just because. Kids that age aren't very much into accepting personal responsibility anyway.

jehovahs witness protection: The correct answer is...: Well, the kid turned out to be a good-for-nothing little punk thug. But lots of kids do.

I'm not seeing an obvious connection between his current crime and the earlier basketball affair. Looks (for now) like a coincidence, nothing more.

It wouldn't surprise me if he or his attorney used it as an excuse, though, just because. Kids that age aren't very much into accepting personal responsibility anyway.

Basketball leads to crime. It's obvious.

It's just as likely that criminals like basketball.

Somehow, I think it's too easy to receive the "Honor Student" label these days...


/sigh

Earguy: Bill_Wick's_Friend 2004-05-04 01:19:49 PM

in 10 years the kid will be graduating college and onto a future with potential for adventure, riches, romance and excitement.
in 10 years the jr high football coach will be coaching jr high football.
living well IS the best revenge.
FAIL

In his defense, living well really is the best revenge. It's followed very closely by selling drugs to his children though.

God damn that kid got fat.

brap: I had a "you made me a criminal" type coach. A complete cawk, ignored my 3 point and free throw prowess, would put me in the waning minutes of blowouts (and being blown out) and shaite himself as I ran up the score.

Thankfully I limited my reaction to going on a five-state laugh at his bowl-cut spree.

My whole life would have turned out different if coach had put me in that game... I know it.

You sure his name ain't Junior Bunk?

Dear sweet, rich...irony? It's like maple syrup! I'll be having this over my pancakes tomorrow morning!

terrence
philo
Junior

/Are you friggin kidding me??
//I mean really now come on

So because of this the coach will be forgiven and the "cry baby" award will be reinstated?

// "We're sorry we doubted your judgment, coach. We should have listened to you."

/// Well, it would be like this if it were a movie.

Cown bread!!

/dumb asses

Back in 89 I could throw a pigskin a quater mile.

angrygrizzly: You sure his name ain't Junior Bunk?

*puts on some Teddy Pendergrass*

The correct answer is...: Well, the kid turned out to be a good-for-nothing little punk thug. But lots of kids do.

I'm not seeing an obvious connection between his current crime and the earlier basketball affair. Looks (for now) like a coincidence, nothing more.

It wouldn't surprise me if he or his attorney used it as an excuse, though, just because. Kids that age aren't very much into accepting personal responsibility anyway.


He had to do something to reestablish his street credit. Any attorney can $ee thi$ i$ the coach'$ fault$.$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

If you're gonna lead a high speed chase and then run of foot. You should OBVIOUSLY grab the gun and crack before you get out there car. At least then you have a chance to ditch it before you get caught.

/kids these days...

This is what happens when the trivial becomes newsworthy. He only got 7.5 minutes the first time around, he's looking for the other half of his dubious award.

Oddly, you'd think that treating a kid with respect would cause him to have self-respect, and that treating him with confidence would result in self-confidence. You'd think in both cases he'd admire and have fond thoughts of those who treated him well, and aspire to their examples. Or else you can treat him like crap and have a thug result.

I'm not terribly familiar with The Wire, but I do recall watching an episode where a kid about the same age was a little crook. His teacher locked himself out of his car, so the kid whipped out his equipment and broke in for him.

This kid looks a lot like him, only with less hair.

/Got nuthin else.

jehovahs witness protection: The correct answer is...: Well, the kid turned out to be a good-for-nothing little punk thug. But lots of kids do.

I'm not seeing an obvious connection between his current crime and the earlier basketball affair. Looks (for now) like a coincidence, nothing more.

It wouldn't surprise me if he or his attorney used it as an excuse, though, just because. Kids that age aren't very much into accepting personal responsibility anyway.

Basketball leads to crime. It's obvious.

Being black leads to both.

I should really give that kid I tormented in 9th grade who looks like Steve Buscemi a call.

Oh, these POOR underserved youth!

Here's a good one for you: Link

Gig With White House Folks, Then Jail Time
April 21, 2010 - 3:09 PM | by: Mike Levine

Three weeks after he and dozens of others, including top-ranking Obama administration officials, spoke in the nation's capital about building a brighter future for Americans, 20-year-old Demarco Scott robbed an electronics store at gunpoint, according to local police and officials.

Scott, a Washington, D.C., resident, expressed regret to his victims as he robbed them, documents filed by police in federal court said.

The month before, he had been a "student presenter" during a conference aimed at tackling issues such as job creation and economic stability, transportation and infrastructure, and housing stabilization in cities and towns across the country.

Scott was asked to describe his experience with a new city-sponsored internship program, which places "underserved young adults" into five-month apprenticeships across Washington, and teaches them resume-writing and job-interviewing skills.

"It's a pretty good program," Scott said in a halting voice, at first sounding unsure of himself as he addressed a session of the National League of Cities' 2010 Congressional City Conference. "We have a lot of young adults in the program, and it's like the program is there to help to try to get people a career ... to better their future."

The conference, held over three days in the middle of March, featured mayors from across the country and several Obama administration officials, including White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett, Transportation Secretary Ray Lahood, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke.

Around that same time, Scott was allegedly participating in a gun-wielding robbery spree across the nation's capital.

OUR bad! We're sorry!

buckler: Oddly, you'd think that treating a kid with respect would cause him to have self-respect, and that treating him with confidence would result in self-confidence. You'd think in both cases he'd admire and have fond thoughts of those who treated him well, and aspire to their examples. Or else you can treat him like crap and have a thug result.

Or you can call a spade a spade

/obviously the sgt. hartman method did not work for pvt pyle
//his mommie and daddie didn't love him enough

Fano:

Or you can call a spade a spade

/obviously the sgt. hartman method did not work for pvt pyle
//his mommie and daddie didn't love him enough


/hot

LOL!

/doesn't... suing over it kinda confirm the nature of the award?

Fano: Or you can call a spade a spade

Yeah, write 'em off right away, that's the ticket. It not like I've seen this work time and time again over my two decades of dealing with youth.

emersonbiggins: Fano:

Or you can call a spade a spade

/obviously the sgt. hartman method did not work for pvt pyle
//his mommie and daddie didn't love him enough


/hot

apparently that pic short-dicked every cannibal on the congo

buckler: Oddly, you'd think that treating a kid with respect would cause him to have self-respect, and that treating him with confidence would result in self-confidence. You'd think in both cases he'd admire and have fond thoughts of those who treated him well, and aspire to their examples. Or else you can treat him like crap and have a thug result.

While what the coach did probably didn't help the kid out, I'm pretty sure the kid was headed towards a life of crime anyway. It is like the Marshmallow experiment with kids and how they react to the test influencing how they do later in life

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_gratification

Philo would have failed the marshmallow test big time.

Right. He has that happen 6 years ago and that's why he lead a police chase?

/riiiiiiight

Fano:
apparently that pic short-dicked every cannibal on the congo

No kidding. I can't wait for the first hotlink to revert to a photo of gootse or 2g1c, rather than just displaying a friendly default message.

/just a matter of time
//it's what I would do

They grow up so fast.