Goodbye Mr. Chips: U of Florida Football Player Arrested After Assaulting Fast Food Employee Over . . . $1 Bag of Chips? - Yeah, Urban Meyer sure has the Gators under control down there in Gainesville! Since they won the National Championship less than a year ago, 8 players have been arrested, the latest was defensive end Jermaine Cunningham. According to cops, Cunningham and a former player went into the Jimmy John's Gourmet Sandwiches restaurant near campus and ordered food, but became upset when an employee, Alphonso Johnson, told them that they needed to pay for a bag of potato chips, retail price: $1. (Dude, don't you know, we're football players?) At that point, Cunningham and friend allegedly became verbally abusive to Johnson and started throwing empty soda cups and a sandwich. Cops were called, but the pair fled before they got there. They were picked up shortly thereafter on the UF campus. At least Cunningham's new "uniform" is Gator orange! (Palm Beach Post)

Excuse of the Year: College Basketball Player Arrested After Shots Fired at Nightclub Claims He Found Gun on Floor, Didn't Want Anyone to Get Shot, so He Fired It Into the Air Until it Was Empty - Say what? It takes some pretty large ones to say something like that to the cops. According to police in Jonesboro, Arkansas a brawl broke out about 2:30 am Sunday at a local bar and nearby officers heard the shots and pulled over a vehicle leaving the scene with five Arkansas State athletes inside. At first, the occupants denied there was a gun in the vehicle, but a quick search turned up a firearm in the back seat. Oops! At that point, ASU basketball star Adrian "Shooter" Banks told officers that the gun had "nothing to do with the other occupants" and admitted that he found the gun at the nightclub where the fight had broken out. How did he explain discharging it? This one is classic, boys and girls! According to police, Banks said, "I found the gun on the ground and didn't want anyone to get shot, so I shot the gun until it was empty." (ESPN)

Man Arrested for DUI on Golf Cart - No video of this one, but you can only imagine the fun when Donald Carson, 46, allegedly decided to have a few adult beverages and then drove a golf cart across 6 lanes of traffic on US-19 in Florida and then stopped in middle of the road. Cops eventually caught Carson over, and detected a strong smell of alcohol on his breath. According to police Carson failed several field sobriety tests and was arrested for DUI. (ABC Action News)

UK Rugby Players Entertain Fans on Train by Drinking, Swearing, Vomiting and Urinating in a Bottle - What fun! The main culprit in this incident appears to be a UK rugby player named Gavin Henson who plays for something called Wales and Lions. Oh, and he's also living with that singer, Charlotte Church. Anyway, it appears that Henson and three of his friends got aboard a commuter train from London to Cardiff to go home after a game, but appear to have been drinking beforehand. Once on board, passengers complained that the quartet was verbally abusive to other passengers (allegedly calling one woman a "fat bitch"), took turns punching each other as part of some odd rugby-style card game, drunkenly vomited in the car at least once and, at one point, rather than walk the 20 feet to the bathroom, of of them decided to urinate in a beer bottle instead. According to one witness, a teacher, “They weren’t inebriated, they were extremely drunk. They couldn’t stand, they absolutely reeked. They were playing a card game with forfeits, the most significant was that they had to drink one and a half bottles of beer and if they didn’t Gavin Henson clenched his fist and he hit them in the face. I saw it happen at least once but the boy was happy for him to do it." All the while, their fellow passengers say felt threatened by this extreme behavior. Police were alerted and arrested the four when they got off the train. Now THIS is why pro athletes in the US don't take public transportation! (IC Wales)

Finally! Video Released of Canadian Youth Hockey Brawl Involving 8-Year-Olds, Eh? - Remember the story from last week (scroll down) of the on-ice brawl between two rival hockey teams that got so bad that the cops had to be called? The video was finally released and after watching it the Canadian cops are saying that it's better if the league handles things and no charges will be pressed . . . even though several of the adults whomped on each other and had to be physically restrained in front of the kids. Yeah, don't press any charges. Watch the video clip for yourself below and decide.

Coach Behaving Badly - Should this be considered a HS coach sex scandal? Hard to say. Bartholomew McInerney, a baseball coach at a Catholic high school in New Jersey was arrested and accused of sending text messages to players encouraging them to masturbate and tell him about it via text message. The charge in this case? Endangering the welfare of a child. (My Fox NY - Link includes video clip.)

Even Satan Worshipers Can't Resist the Urge to Drive Golf Carts Into Water - This has to be a new category for the BadJocks Scoreboard for 2008: Golf Carts in Water. Whenever we report on golf course vandalism, the story immediately turns to stolen golf carts and then to those same vehicles being found submerged in water somewhere, be it a lake, river or nearby pool. Must be something about hitting the water at low speed.
This time though, cops in Virginia think that the people behind the damage at the Honey Bee Golf Course were a satanic cult . . . or wanted them to think they were. Earlier this week the manager at the course showed up to find one of their out buildings set on fire (Satan), parts of the course dug up (likely Satan), the number 666 carved into a green (very likely Satan) and a dead raccoon placed nearby . . . all obvious signs of Satan worship and/or drunk teenagers . . . or both. Oh, and they stole several golf carts, drove them a mile or so away and drove them into a pond . . . definitely the work of the Devil! Link includes a funny video clip from the local TV station asking experts if they think this was cult stuff. Classic! (WAVY)

Is This What We've Come To? Local TV Station Uses News Helicopter to Cover Story of Assistant HS Band Director Accused of Sex With Underage Female Student - Forget the days when news helicopters were only used for high speed chases or missing children: now they can be used to give everyone a birds-eye-view of a small town high school where sex (yes SEX!) between adults and teenaged students has been going on. What, do they expect to catch someone in the act on the roof? Click on the link below to watch the story about Anthony Spahr, 28, the band director Milton-Union High School who was indicted on one count of sexual battery. (WHIO-TV - link includes silly helicopter video clip)

Father of the Year? Little League Coach Arrested for Forcing Son to Eat Dozens of Jalapeno Peppers - Some people love hot peppers. Nothing wrong with that. Also nothing wrong with introducing your kids to new foods. But making them eat dozens of hot peppers? Not cool, dude. Jeff Robinson of Georgia was charged with cruelty to children after he punished his son for giving the family dog a piece of a jalapeno pepper. According to police, after the kid ate dozens of the peppers, he asked his father for some water and instead, Robinson made him drink the juice from the jar instead. They boy ended up--naturally--with severe stomach pains and went to the hospital, while dad went to jail. (WRCB - TV)

HS Cheerleading Coach, 42, Accused of Sex With Boy, 16 - Details on how Donna Hoffman, of Union Township, Ohio met the young man at West Clermont School are not clear, but sources are saying the two met through mutual acquaintances . . . whatever that means these days. We do know that Hoffman had a teenaged daughter who went to school there and that she was also a coach for the Wrestlerettes, young women to assist the wrestling team. Regardless, a grand jury indicted her for sexual battery of a student and she is currently in jail awaiting a bond hearing. At left, Hoffman's "what are you lookin' at" picture. (WCPO)

Internet Pictures Surface of Gymnastics Coach Already Accused of Sex Scandal back in the 90s - Things just went from bad to worse for New Hampshire gymnastics coach Steven Infante, 51. He is already accused of assaulting two teenage students more than a decade ago, and now new naughty photos have surfaced from a camp held in the summer of 2006. In those pics, Infante is seen holding a girl's head as she kneeled in front of him, while a second image shows another young girl being handcuffed by another coach. Neither appears to us to be a traditional gymnastics training techniques, but then we studied under Bela Karolyi and he's really "old school." (WHDH) Thanks to Brian S. for the link!

Drag Queen/Teacher Sentenced to One Year in Prison for Sex With Boy, 17 - Wait, that's not a man? Plus: a male Irish dance instructor is arrested after allegedly giving a private performance in nothing but a woman's thing for a stunned JC Penney employee. Details and more stories of stupidity at Bob Reno's Dumbass Daily.

Cops Called to Break Up Hockey Brawl Involving . . . 8-Year-Olds? - When police in Guelph, Ontario were called to break up a hockey brawl involving players and coaches last week, we doubt that they expected to see a bunch of kids barely old enough to be in school (and their equally child-like parents) at the center of it all. It happened during a game between the Duffield Devils and Niagara Falls Thunder novice triple-A teams, when a small on-ice fight broke out. Things escalated when the coaches allegedly ordered their players on the bench to join the brawl and culminated when a Niagara Falls coach approached the Duffield bench and allegedly spit in the face of a Duffield coach. Cops confiscated a parents video of the event to use as evidence. Three players on each team and both coaches have been suspended. It's hockey night in Canada. (Edmonton Sun) Below is a CBC report on the incident.

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