Chargers rookie arrested

[coach316]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070709/ap_on_sp_fo_ne/fbn_chargers_waters_arrested

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. - San Diego Chargers rookie Anthony Waters was charged with hitting a man who threw a rock at his car on a highway.


The 22-year-old linebacker was arrested last week on a simple assault and battery charge and released on $1,000 bail, Horry County spokeswoman Lisa Bourcier said Monday. No trial date has been set.

Waters, a former Clemson star, was traveling on Nichols Highway last week when a passenger in a vehicle in front of him threw a rock and broke Waters' windshield, causing about $350 in damages, according to arrest warrants.

It's unclear what happened next, but at some point Waters and another man struck Colby Sarvis, 18, and threatened to kill him, according to warrants. Bourcier said she did not know if the men had lawyers.

Brian Rogers, 23, also was charged with hitting Sarvis. He and Waters were released from jail Friday, Bourcier said. Sarvis was charged with malicious injury to personal property under $1,000.

Waters was selected in the third round of the NFL draft. He tore a knee ligament in Clemson's 54-6 opening win over Florida Atlantic in September and did not play the rest of the season.

 

[coach316]

I wonder what Goodell will do with this since he's a newly drafted rookie and more than likely hasn't signed a contract yet?

I, myself, refuse to be the first to cast a stone on this one. :laugh1:

 

[dargonking999]

Ban for life

 

[Idgit]

Apart from threatening to kill the guy, it sounds like the rock-thrower deserved a thumping. Breaking the windshield of another car on a highway could easily have caused a more serious accident.

 

[Dave_in-NC]

I would have hit the guy to. Eighteen years old and throwing rocks at cars, he deserved to get an arse wooping.

 

[AbeBeta]

I would have hit the guy to. Eighteen years old and throwing rocks at cars, he deserved to get an arse wooping.

So you trade a $350 windshield for a potential suspension? Even a single game of suspension is going to cost over 10k.

Here's an idea -- take down the license plate, call the cops, and don't try to be Mr. Vigilante.

 

[Doomsday101]

So you trade a $350 windshield for a potential suspension? Even a single game of suspension is going to cost over 10k.

Here's an idea -- take down the license plate, call the cops, and don't try to be Mr. Vigilante.

I agree. That is easy said than done but none the less he made a bad choice of going after this idiot.

 

[03EBZ06]

That 18 year kid could have killed some one. You simply don't throw rocks or anything toward a car which is travelling in excess of 55 mph, any driver could have easily panicked and caused an accident. Luckily it was only a windshield damage.

Since neither Waters and Rogers got hurt, they didn't need to gang up and beat perpetrator either, they should have simply call police on that idiot and let the cops handle it.

Both were stupid and now both will be charged.

 

[ThreeSportStar80]

I would have done the same thing, I know someone personally who died because of an idiot throwing big rocks from an overpass on a highway! I hope his charges will get dropped, because that's B.S.

 

[AbeBeta]

I would have done the same thing, I know someone personally who died because of an idiot throwing big rocks from an overpass on a highway! I hope his charges will get dropped, because that's B.S.

Regardless, you can't take the law into your own hands.

 

[ThreeSportStar80]

Regardless, you can't take the law into your own hands.

Yeah you can... Get a lawyer and handle it from there. I don't believe in letting people off the hook.

 

[AbeBeta]

Yeah you can... Get a lawyer and handle it from there. I don't believe in letting people off the hook.

How are you "letting him off the hook" if you call the cops?

 

[Doomsday101]

Yeah you can... Get a lawyer and handle it from there. I don't believe in letting people off the hook.

That is why he will be charged and have to get a lawyer because he took the law into his own hands. That is not letting someone off the hook that is using poor judgement. Granted any one of us could have reacted the same way but that does not make it right.

 

[THUMPER]

Many years ago, a guy cut me off badly and when we stopped at a red light I got out to confront him. He was just some little balding yuppie in a BMW and I am a pretty big guy but when I came up to his window he was sitting there with a gun in his hand and asked if I wanted something.

I said, "nope" and went back to my car. That was the last time I ever confronted another driver. I didn't think to get his license plate info and call the cops until after it was too late but I do now (have only had to call them once since then though).

It just isn't worth it on so many levels. It solves nothing and will only result in YOU getting the worst end of the deal.

 

[AbeBeta]

That is why he will be charged and have to get a lawyer because he took the law into his own hands. That is not letting someone off the hook that is using poor judgement. Granted any one of us could have reacted the same way but that does not make it right.

I'm going to bet that this argument plays out along age lines -- with the kids screaming "i'd kick his butt" and us, umm, more mature folks suggesting a wiser path.

 

[MarionBarberThe4th]

How are you "letting him off the hook" if you call the cops?

BC is hes 18 and still doing it stuff like that hes obviously got something wrong with him and wont learn a lesson

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[AbeBeta]

BC is hes 18 and still doing it stuff like that hes obviously got something wrong with him and wont learn a lesson

a

Getting arrested doesn't teach him a lesson?

 

[ThreeSportStar80]

Getting arrested doesn't teach him a lesson?

Nope I prefer bodily harm.... Sends a much better message. I carry my gun with me everywhere, and I have a concealed weapons permit..

 

[MarionBarberThe4th]

Getting arrested doesn't teach him a lesson?

robably not. We all did dumb stuff as kids, *arents, co*s, they always found out and we ket doing it until we grew u*.

This guy hasnt grown u* yet.


*BTW Im trying to refrain from using the key on my keyboard next to "O" and "L"

 

[AbeBeta]

Nope I prefer bodily harm.... Sends a much better message. I carry my gun with me everywhere, and I have a concealed weapons permit..

You don't have a permit to threaten someone with that gun though.

Son, listen to what the grown ups on the board are saying here.