Michael Phelps Busted by Photo - Page 3

DrPhil · #1 02-02-2009, 10:38 PM

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Originally Posted by KSigkid

And it looks like this won't either: http://sports.yahoo.com/top/news?slu...v=ap&type=lgns .

He's sort of the "Teflon" athlete.

From what I've heard (from people who would know) the guy likes to have a good time. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it probably means he'll be in the headlines again at some point.

The "news" said that he had been partying everyday since the Olympics and that this may make him slow down a little.

PM_Mama00 · #2 02-03-2009, 12:17 AM

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Originally Posted by KSigkid

And it looks like this won't either: http://sports.yahoo.com/top/news?slu...v=ap&type=lgns .

He's sort of the "Teflon" athlete.

From what I've heard (from people who would know) the guy likes to have a good time. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it probably means he'll be in the headlines again at some point.

Lol like I said, he went to Ann Arbor. It's not just for overly smart nerds and minorities. It's a pretty big party school.

I wonder if he just wants to be a normal college student (alumni?) and is tired of being the perfect one that everyone expects the world of. Yeah he's making a shit ton of money, but I can't imagine the pressure that gets put on him.

#3 02-03-2009, 12:21 AM

I just started following him on Twitter.

jojapeach · #4 02-02-2009, 07:22 PM

Think about how many other celebrities of one sort of another have been caught with drugs or under the influence, and they're careers were just fine. I could see the uproar if he was caught smoking crack or taking steroids. It's just weed. He just shouldn't have been caught on film. I bet this thread will die in 1 week max.

JohnnyCash · #5 02-03-2009, 06:42 PM

Who gives a shit? God forbid someone smokes a little weed every now and then.

SusanB · #6 02-03-2009, 09:21 PM

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Originally Posted by JohnnyCash

Who gives a shit? God forbid someone smokes a little weed every now and then.

Agreed. It's not for me, but if someone who just spent the last year (4 years, 10 years...) busting his ass wants to take a little break and have some fun, I don't see anything wrong with that.

DaemonSeid · #7 02-03-2009, 10:10 PM

I am surprised that no one noted that NOW we understand why he ate 12000 calories a day...the munchies are a real killer!

knight_shadow · #8 02-04-2009, 12:11 AM

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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

I am surprised that no one noted that NOW we understand why he ate 12000 calories a day...the munchies are a real killer!

HA! I never thought of that. Good catch LOL

#9 02-05-2009, 10:18 PM

Phelps suspended by USA Swimming

So he can't compete for 3 months and they're cutting him off financially for 3 months.

Methinks Michael Phelps is devastated. [/sarcasm]

knight_shadow · #10 02-05-2009, 10:23 PM

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Originally Posted by OTW

Phelps suspended by USA Swimming

So he can't compete for 3 months and they're cutting him off financially for 3 months.

Methinks Michael Phelps is devastated. [/sarcasm]

I'm sure 3 months isn't going to break him, but seriously...it's really not that serious for everyone to get all up in arms about this "scandal." There are more important things to focus on in the world.

a.e.B.O.T. · #11 02-04-2009, 12:03 AM

So he was caught smoking some his Weedies... I hope it jump starts the legalization of weed again, because it is absolutely silly that it is illegal, and hell, dropping the funding from the prohibition, and adding the tax and sell of weed, it could totally make the govt. some money... If he was doing something massively hard core, doing lines or shootin' up, I would be concern, but its just herbal refreshment...

DaemonSeid · #12 02-06-2009, 09:13 AM

Weed = 3 month suspension

Dogfighting = jail

LOL

KSigkid · #13 02-06-2009, 10:38 AM

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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

Weed = 3 month suspension

Dogfighting = jail

LOL

You realize these aren't comparable, right? Except, in the broadest sense, of a famous person doing something illegal?

Dogfighting/cruelty to animals = felony.

Weed does not = felony in some states. Plus, the criminal justice process hasn't started at all in this.

That's not even getting into weighing the moral/social outrage of one crime (dogfighting and the resulting cruelty to animals) against another.

If you want to give an example of racial disparities in sentencing for crime, you've got about a million better examples than this.

agzg · #14 02-06-2009, 11:53 AM

I really doubt that there will be a criminal proceeding in this case. You can tell that it's a bong in the picture, but you can't definitively prove that there's weed in it. So you're left with a picture that potentially questionable and some eyewitness statements.

There won't be a trial. Besides in most states, it's illegal to possess and sell marijuana, not smoke it. If the cops don't catch you selling, possessing, or driving after smoking weed, you can technically be high as a kite.

At least that's the way I always understood it.

Not that I've ever partaken of the wacky tobacky.

joliebelle · #15 02-10-2009, 04:29 PM

"We've now learned that since investigators began trying to build a case, they've made eight arrests: seven for drug possession and one for distribution. These are arrests that resulted as the sheriff's department served search warrants"

http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=9814127

Yes, I live in Richland County, and no, I don't think that this is ridiculous