FROGS WITH GUNS: TCU SHOWS HOW NOT TO BORROW A FRIEND'S GUN
We begin this tale with the facts involving two TCU players cited for misdemeanor weapons charges in Texas. A rent-a-cop named K.D. Willingham, moonlighting from his day job as a Ft. Worth police officer, approached Robert Leandro Henson, 21, and Stephen Eugene Hodge, 19, both players on TCU's Horned Frogs football team. (HT: Tomek.)
From the superbly named Daily Skiff:
According to the police report, Willingham saw Henson holding a black handgun. Henson handed the gun to Hodge, according to the report, who "raised the firearm into the air and fired several rounds." Willingham then identified himself as a Fort Worth police officer, pointed a shotgun at Hodge and told him to put the gun down, according to the report.
The conversation had to go something like this.
Henson: Whew, I'm tired, man.
Hodge: Yeah. Beat. Hey, what's that?
Henson: My new nine. Wanna see it?
Hodge: Sure. (Takes gun) Is it loaded?
Henson: Nah, man. I'm not dumb, right?
Hodge: So I could take it like this and just (BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM)
Officer: FREEZE!!! POLICE!!!
Hodge: Um, you were wrong. That gun was loaded.
Henson: Shit.

Stop hatin', five-oh. Those bullets go straight into space.
The Horned Frogs are assessed two points for the incident, as this is Texas and wantonly discharging a firearm seems to belong in a class of crimes loosely classified as "party gone out of bounds." Henson did, however, have three outstanding Class C warrants at the time of his arrest, so perhaps a bonus point for stupidity is in order? Sure. Bonus point plus two for Kenneth Tookes Target Practice = three total for TCU, making their entry into Fulmer Cup 2007.
Addendum: don't laugh! When frogs and guns meet, people get hurt.
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What do Horned Frogs need with guns? I thought they shot toxic blood from their eyes.
by Orangeblood on Apr 27, 2007 10:38 AM EDT reply actions
Well, here’s Penn State’s tally:
A. Scirrotto: burglary, criminal tresspass, criminal soliciation (2 counts), simple assault, and harrassment.
Chris Baker: burglary, criminal tresspass, simple assault, simple mischief, disorderly conduct, harrassment.
J. King: disorderly conduct, criminal tresspass, harrassment.
J. Hayes, L. Sargeant, L. Sales: Criminal tresspass, disorderly conduct, harrassment.
Burglary, Crim. Trespass, and possibly criminal solicitation are felonies. Not sure about the last one.
by Run Up The Score on Apr 27, 2007 10:49 AM EDT reply actions
Also, the person whose post i copy/pasted that from doesn’t know how to spell “trespass” and I woke up too recently to notice it prior to hitting “submit comment”.
Incidentally, criminal solicitation is likely One Measly Point.
by Run Up The Score on Apr 27, 2007 10:53 AM EDT reply actions
i’m not certain, but i think that any assault is a felony. depends upon their definition up there.
also, how in the fuck is shooting a gun into the air not a felony. shooting deadly missiles sure as hell is in florida.
by adam on Apr 27, 2007 10:58 AM EDT reply actions
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2850545
Ron Mexico loves chronic and fucking hates dogs!
by Mätt on Apr 27, 2007 11:07 AM EDT reply actions
And this brings us to my own “Lonely Planet”-style travel tip: Places you do not want to visit include any culture where firing weapons into the air is a routine form of celebration.
So, it sounds like Fort Worth is off my list.
by DevilGrad on Apr 27, 2007 11:08 AM EDT reply actions
In PA misdemeanors are punishable by up to 5 years in prison – so some pretty hefty charges fall within the category – Simple assault is a Misdemeanor 2 (unless committed in the course of “mutually entered” fight – then it’s an M1).
by PSUgirl on Apr 27, 2007 11:19 AM EDT reply actions
No one’s catching the Big We Can’t Count this season. The conference title is a wrap. Whoooo Delaney!!!!
by MassDad on Apr 27, 2007 11:41 AM EDT reply actions
Im shocked boys! Shocked!
http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2007/04/04-27-07tdc/pressrelease.pdf
by Lion4Life on Apr 27, 2007 11:44 AM EDT reply actions
I kinda feel like these three dudes had it coming.
by Lion4Life on Apr 27, 2007 11:45 AM EDT reply actions
Lion4Life, everybody’s got it coming- that doesn’t make it right. But it does make it funny, so we’ve got that going for us.
Also, let’s remember that to the best of my knowledge (physicist I am not) bullets fired in the air won’t kill anyone on the way down- terminal velocity doesn’t kill people, dysentery kills people.
by italiangator on Apr 27, 2007 11:57 AM EDT reply actions
By my count, that is 24 charges. Forget points—charges. The only interesting competition remaining in this year’s Fulmer Cup is whether the field, combined, can score as many points as PSU.
by irishdevil on Apr 27, 2007 12:00 PM EDT reply actions
People have been killed by falling bullets in SoCal, I remember a case near Disneyland a few years ago.
I figured this must have been done by Mythbusters, and I was right (hey, has that guy ever been featured on Mustache Wednesday?)
http://kwc.org/mythbusters/2006/04/episode_50_bullets_fired_up_vo_1.html
by oc phil on Apr 27, 2007 12:33 PM EDT reply actions
Well, after reading the mythbusters thing, I guess I’ve been shown to be right, perhaps right, and wrong. It’s a good thing I’m not bothered by moral relativism.
by italiangator on Apr 27, 2007 12:38 PM EDT reply actions
Maybe if you’re on everest they’ll go straight into space. If you get up there, you could actually put a bullet into orbit (This is probably wrong, but when you’re bored and having a debate in physics with you buddy . . . ).
Most times the bullets just come landing some where else. There was a story a few years ago about a woman getting killed by a bullet fired from a hunter’s rifle that had been discharged in the air several miles away. She just happened to be at the end of the arch and it caught her in the head. Weird story.
by That 5.0 Guy on Apr 27, 2007 12:47 PM EDT reply actions
In New Orleans around New Years, they used to put up “Falling Bullets Kill” billboards to try and stop the local tradition of discharging firearms in the air at midnight (a young Loius Armstrong was even arrested for this). Before the Sugar Bowl one year the guy that was Sebastain the Ibis got hit on Bourbon by one.
by jakldawg on Apr 27, 2007 12:57 PM EDT reply actions
- — Correct, that’s 24 charges, with 8 of them being felonies. I’m not sure if burglary falls into the two or three point category, but it looks like 32 points at a bare minimum. Nevermind if assaults count as two points (if third degree battery counts as two, I imagine simple assault does as well), and felonies count as three. We could be in the 50+ range. And there are two guys who nearly everyone says were heavily involved, but weren’t charged…yet.
I doubt that all of the charges will stick, but still, We Are…setting the bar high.
by Run Up The Score on Apr 27, 2007 1:04 PM EDT reply actions
Finally the Frogs are on the board! Who says we can’t compete with BCS programs. (Well, except Penn State, I guess.)
I had a little .38 when I was at TCU (after I moved out of the dorms). I never randomly fired it in a parking lot, though…as far as I can remember…
by Boston Frog on Apr 27, 2007 4:32 PM EDT reply actions
It looks like Texas has just leapfrogged Kentucky and Iraq.
by Kakistocrat on Apr 27, 2007 5:52 PM EDT reply actions

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