Athletes getting caught with drugs. How does this happen?
By stinge
@stinge (810)
United States
December 10, 2008 1:22pm CST
I just came across an article where a player in the NFL Matt Jones, a wide reciever for the Jacksonville Jaguars, will be suspended for the rest of the season for a cocaine bust that happened a few months ago. The report is that he was caught by a police officer sitting in his car cutting up cocaine with a credit card. Some of the ways these guys get caught is like they are asking for it. If you are going to do drugs, I would think you would keep it in the privacy of your home. But then again maybe some of these guys have families and don't want them to know about it. But then you have the ones that get caught because they were driving drunk, or speeding, or both, and the police search their cars and find drugs in the car. It seems to be the same story over and over. Athlete + drunk + speeding + drugs = JAIL! I always say to myself how the hell do these guys keep getting caught? And you here the report and it's the same story all the time. Police officers saw the vehicle swerving in the street and they pulled him over. Maybe these guys are asking for help. They go out and get drunk,maybe because they have a drinking problem. Or they go score some drugs because they have a drug problem, and they get behind the wheels of their cars and drive as wreckless as they can, bringing attention to themselves hopping that the cops wil catch them, witch will lead to them being ordered to go to rehab. I'm not condoning drug use, but you would think that these guys would be a little more careful with their illegal activities.
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@nicholejade (2430)
• Canada
10 Dec 08
It's not just athletes as I have seen first hand that there are everyday plain jane that have been caught doing the same thing. So why should Jones be the center of scrutny. Just because he is a professional athlete doesn't mean that he isn't human. He is just like us but put in an all star nfl player. People get caught because it is in their vehicle since you do have to transport it from point a (being the dealers meet up location) to point b (taking it home). Maybe he was doing it in his vehicle because he doesn't want his family to know. There are many reasons why he was doing it in his vehicle.
@sharra1 (6340)
• Australia
11 Dec 08
Why? They are treated like Gods, like heroes and they think they can do no wrong. Why would the law have anything to do with Gods and heroes?
We treat sports people like they can do no wrong. Often they are just ordinary people with sports skill and the attention, the adoration goes to their heads. They start to believe the hype but the stress gets to them and the next thing you know you have a sports player on heroin and he has problems.
They do not see it as a crime just as part of the scene. They get caught in the net and then it all goes wrong and they do not understand what is happening. Much the same as rock stars.
@sivanj (1263)
• India
11 Dec 08
Its a part of many athletes i believe. i am no athlete but i heard about one thing. there are concentrated foods that almost every sports persons take. of course what they take will differ. it is said that taking such a food (some type) and doing gym works increases the prohibited hormone level in the body. even such food items have to be avoided. but the food actually does not have anything bad. in such cases some will have the residues left in them to get them caught.
@emilysmom_2005 (28)
• United States
10 Dec 08
Some of these guys think just because they got lots of money they can do what they want when they want and dont care aboutthe laws. Alot of guys think moneyis everything and with money no one can bothe them because they can bail themselves out of trouble.
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@austin3443 (1)
• United States
10 May 09
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