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April 19, 2004
Law fought the law and the law won.: Patriots cornerback Ty Law was pulled over in Miami, there was a drive-away and a car chase and then a foot chase before he was arrested. And please officers, don't " touch him because he is a professional athlete".
posted by jerseygirl to football at 05:37 PM - 22 comments
Awesome. Better even than Michael Irvin's fateful words to the arresting officers. "Umm, do you know who I am?"
posted by vito90 at 07:21 PM on April 19, 2004
Oops, forgot to add my other thought. If I was the cops, here's what I do. I tow away the abandoned Rolls Royce to a chop shop and collect some ducats. I love the fact that Ty abandoned his Rolls to get away! I'm guessing he had some drugs or some sort of contraband on him and he figured a foot chase gives him the chance to ditch it. Maybe after he ditches it he allows himself to get caught? [/Angela Lansbury]
posted by vito90 at 07:24 PM on April 19, 2004
Front-office speak: Patriots spokesman Stacey James said the team was "aware of the reports. We're going to work internally to gather more information." Reality: Patriots spokesman Stacey James said the team is "aware Law is a complete dumbass. We're going to work internally to unload this schmuck for a high draft pick."
posted by wfrazerjr at 08:38 PM on April 19, 2004
The Corey Dillon trade seems very appropriate now.
posted by Ufez Jones at 08:51 PM on April 19, 2004
Oh, shit. Nevermind. I thought it said running back. This is why I need to stay out of football posts...
posted by Ufez Jones at 08:51 PM on April 19, 2004
"He decided that he's above the law and he's not and that's why he was arrested," Hernandez said. Hey, if anyone's above the Law....
posted by WeedyMcSmokey at 10:55 PM on April 19, 2004
"pulled over for a lane violation"!? What the zark is that? In all my life I've never heard of police stopping someone for something like that.
posted by salmacis at 05:20 AM on April 20, 2004
salmacis, say hello to racial profiling.
posted by garfield at 07:03 AM on April 20, 2004
Or Law could've been weaving in-and-out of lanes? Or driving in two lanes for a long stretch of road?
posted by kokaku at 09:13 AM on April 20, 2004
I don't have any more details than you, kokaku, but I have good money on a cop paying extra attention to anyone but an old white man drivng a Rolls. Hopefully, I'm wrong.
posted by garfield at 09:38 AM on April 20, 2004
Not in Miami, garf. It's a diverse area. It's a wealthy area. Flashy affluent actors/athletes/otherwise celebs/wealthy people (any color) driving around in fancy cars is probably not uncommon. Its likely the cops were trying to stop him for a ridiculously minor infraction, and he was probably doing something or in possession of something he shouldn't have been. He was caught at the Canadian border in 2000 with X so...
posted by jerseygirl at 10:16 AM on April 20, 2004
fair nuf.
posted by garfield at 10:24 AM on April 20, 2004
:)
posted by jerseygirl at 10:32 AM on April 20, 2004
Not in Miami, garf . . . Flashy affluent actors/athletes/otherwise celebs/wealthy people (any color) driving around in fancy cars is probably not uncommon. You're kidding, right? Both the state and the ACLU have sites to deal with just that area. And don't forget Broward County's handling of their most important free speech case. All that said, it's probably X all over again.
posted by yerfatma at 11:04 AM on April 20, 2004
All I was saying is that if he's rolling in Miami (god, i just said rolling. No more Pimp My Ride for me) in a Rolls Royce, it's probably not the spectacle to the police as say... rolling through Roxbury in a Rolls Royce would be.
posted by jerseygirl at 11:41 AM on April 20, 2004
People get pulled over for lane violations all the time. "Improper lane usage" is a ticket in Illinois, and it means if you drive by someone in a lane designated for turning, etc. It can also be used as a catch-all if you're driving like a knob.
posted by wfrazerjr at 12:15 PM on April 20, 2004
Pulling people over for line violations is also a way to tag people for DUIs. Technically, and officer is supposed to pull you over for drunk driving, but rather for something else (such as line violations, running red lights, etc) and then bring out the breathalizer.
posted by jmd82 at 03:32 PM on April 20, 2004
The first moving violation I was ever stopped for was very similar, passing on the right (on a surface road, not a highway). That was a case of age profiling since I was 16 and the cop involved had a hard on to bust kids. Of course since the driving age in NJ at the time was 17, this led to other complications.
posted by billsaysthis at 07:06 PM on April 20, 2004
Bill ... how did you find out the officer had a hard-on?
posted by wfrazerjr at 07:24 PM on April 20, 2004
Well duh: notice he didn't say anything about getting a ticket?
posted by yerfatma at 08:08 PM on April 20, 2004
I did get a ticket but another came by later that night to retrieve it since I had no D/L to get a ticket against. wfrazer, some things are just obvious. m'kay?
posted by billsaysthis at 08:42 PM on April 20, 2004
"He then ran away from officers again but they caught up to him after a short chase." As someone on another website pointed-out, this is the strangest thing about the story. I mean, don't you think that if anyone could outrun the fuzz, it would be Ty Law?