THEY DON'T PLAY IN LA

It’s just one of those “tribute to Michaek Vick” sort of things, just more original than the number sticker on the helmet, or the black armbands worn by the Yankees every other week.

Looks real to me. It might be Robert Dunn….

Hold on, that kid might bring back the “swagger” to Miami.

In my opinion, Photoshopped, and here is why:

1. The bracelet is over the sock. Unless they had court authority to unattach and reattach the bracelet, not happening.

2. They are wearing white jerseys, so I am “assuming” they are on the road. Thus, he, in all likelihood he had to leave the city, county, etc, which would also need a court order. That one might make more sense given that it is a school related activity.

I say no, but I am probably wrong.

I say it’s photoshopped.
This would only happen in TX.. not LA.

1. has a great point, it’s over the sock which would require them to be able to take the thing off, and why would they want him wearing it during the game if they’re there to take it off.

plus did you notice that one sock is brown and white, while the other leg is white and brown?

Finally, horse racing cheatertech has bridged the gap.

If you look at the other players socks, they switch as well. Could be real, who knows.

Nope, can’t happen in Texas.

 We use NCAA rules, which prevent use of radio devices on the field, including tracking bracelets.

 There was a situation a year or so ago when a WR at North Mesquite HS was involved in several robberies. While he awaited trial, he transfered to Lancaster HS, b/c the coach there was willing to let him play (he was being recruited by several colleges until the robbery allegations surfaced).
 An article about him possibly playing with a bracelet at Lancaster made the Dallas Morning News.
 One phone call from a former officials supervisor in Virginia later, and he was declared ineligible to play for the season b/c of the bracelet.

Pat Lazear (WVU; formerly of Whitman HS, Bethedsa, MD) played his senior year with an ankle bracelet on.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06258/722085-365.stm

But I suspect photoshopping here because the thing isn’t padded.

The Bracelet being over the sock doesn’t mean anything, you could easily pull a sock up through that. Being on the road doesn’t matter either, it’s high school, could be (likely is) simply across town. As for the white/brown and brown/white sock pattern, look at the rest of the players. It’s the same for everyone.

If that’s a shop, it’s pretty good.

If the bracelet was loose enough you could work the sock under it, so not a death blow. I say real, it looks like the sock bunches in just the right places around the bracelet.

Also, away (white jerseys) doesn’t mean a different city, lots of towns are big enough to have two high schools.

My next question is: does this even look like an ankle monitoring bracelet?

It looks to me like more of a Casio digital watch that doubles as a calculator. The one your Chemistry or Calculus teach once wore.

We need a prosecutor/public defender/criminal attorney type to weigh in on this, as there has to be several of those on EDSBS.

Fourth beat me to it.

But 10 has a good point, surely you would wrap it at least.

#6,

 The maroon and white support tights seem to be part of the uniform.

11 – What part of, “in all likelihood” don’t you understand?

Since the WVa kid wore one, this thing is obviously feasible, and not as big of a deal to me, anymore.

Meh…

Here’s a picture of Lazear with the monitor wrapped up.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/07/AR2006090701712_2.html

But man, look at the way the light from the flash hits it…it’s too perfect to be a photoshop. I’ve never seen a shop that gets lights and shadows right. That’s it, I’ve convinced myself to vote real. Unless I’m wrong.

15:
I understand what likely means, thanks. And I was pointing out that it was just as likely, if not more so, that he was close enough to home for it not to matter.

I would say it is photoshopped due to the fact that it over the sock, although conceivably, if it was a little loose you could slide the sock underneath it.

As far as actually playing with it…definitely. When I played in high school (Berkeley, CA) our TE/DE, who went on to play at San Jose St., played his entire senior season with a bracelet on his ankle. Something about assault charges. He didn’t need a court order to travel, he just had to notify his parole officer that he had a game and that he would be out past his curfew. I’m sure there was probably some other paper work involved, but he definitely didn’t need a court order. Intimidating as all hell if you ask me…you don’t know what the guy did to deserve it.

Other fun facts about my HS football team:

-Our starting FB was arrested in the locker room before practice
-Our TE my senior year had shanked someone…not stabbed, shanked. He was currently living on house arrest in a group home after he was busted for marijauna possession while on parole.
-Our backup DT ran a minor drug ring

It’s funnier if it’s real, therefore I will believe it is real. Ignorance is bliss sometimes people. Let sleeping dogs lie. Any other applicable clichés.

Nah, fake. My braclet didn’t look anything like that.

I am willing to be that, in Louisiana, the majority of road games played by schools, unless that school is in NOLA, are played out of town, and thus would require a court order for him to be allowed to leave town.

Again, certainly not as likely or more likely that this kid is staying in town to play his road games.

“Ignorance is bliss, so naturally I’m miserable.” (HT: schmedulov jostokovich

Looks real to me, and I don’t give a fuck if it’s fake. Funny picture. Nuff sed.

I think it’s real. The way the light hits the screen/display is on target. I have seen a kid not wrap one before when i watcehd a friend play in a semi-pro game.

I think it’s real…

the over the sock thing is the first thing that came to my mind. i’m proud to say i don’t know much about these things so i could easily be fooled.

bottom line: funny either way…REALLY fucking funny if its real.

It’s a photoshop and that is a picture of an iPod in a workout cover. There’s no way that thing would be allowed with no padding and besides why would something shine on it? They are all black like a pager.

i say real. i wore one for 6 months. looks like mine in the pic, and too real looking to be a photoshop. now if he has a breathalizer hooked to the ignition of his car i can confirm that, too.

former state attorney intern/future state attorney here. the bracelet looks legit, there are a couple types, and this is definately one of them. i’m just wondering about the possibility of this being some kind of advertisement for this brand of bracelet, showing how you can still function while on monitering.

an iPod and workout strap? really? you wear a helmet, don’t you- retard.

I don’t see how it could be real – wouldn’t the refs look at that the same way that they would earrings or jewelry on the field? I dunno, somebody could get a finger caught in that thing and get injured.

I was just basing that off my little hometown (~50k pop) having 6 or 7 local teams, meaning about half the road games were in town. No I did not pay special attention to the degree of certainty with which people made their assertions, nor did I think people would pay attention to mine. In short: who cares, you got your panties all in a wad in #17 though so I felt the need to defend what I said.

The blurry dude wearing the red shirt in the back on the sideline is freaking huge.
That is all.

I vote real, for the same flash/light reasons as stated by #19.

I know it’s happened before. Rick Reilly wrote a column on some kid who did this a few years back.

Rick Reilly is awesome.

I say fake. But very convincing.

You’d think he’d have it padded or at least have his sock covering it.

there has to be some official picture of what house arrest bracelets that are used in that county actually look like, right?

I wait with bated breath at the scathing commentary to no doubt be provided by Orson regarding the city of Tampa, now that it is an ACC championship game host city.

You’re looking at Avis Commack, Florida State’s next waste of talent. When asked about Commack’s tracking device, Bowden said “Daagummit with a 4.4 40 you would think he could have out run that cop”

Picture being vetted now on tigerdroppings.com. It’s only a matter of time before this question is answered to no one’s satisfaction.

They are certainly on the road. Playing at a predominantly black school. I don’t see any white people in the stands behnid the fat guy/trainer/asst coach in red. But the home team is losing bad… no one is smiling in the stands. The visiting team is about to score again because it’s getting so ugly every one has their hands over the eyes. And the lady on third row back second from the left is certainly not proof that I was looking for love in all the wrong places.

Not the right color for Commack’s high school, although that’s a very Bowden-ish quote.

Seems to be a player from a New Orleans-area high school taken during a recent playoff game with a private school from elsewhere in the state by an outraged parent.

this type of thing is totally normal in LA.

They took the lockers out of one of the elementary schools in my hometown because the kids were having sex under them.

One of my ex-employees on why he doesn’t pay child support: “mane, i ain’t be payin no child suppote cause i know she ain’t be fuckin fo free. shit” apparently pple from certain classes here have sex and its customary to pay the woman (often in food stamps) even though she isn’t a prostitute – like when i give my old lady a high five immediately after coitus.

and about the monitors being all black – don’t some of them have labels on them?

for example, see this

http://media.portland.indymedia.org/images/2007/06/361403.jpg

I’ve never played against anyone with an ankle braclet, but I have seen an opposing teams’ buses roll in with cop cars following, containing a couple of players in full pads. The cops were on the field near the players during warmups, and on the sidelines during our game.

Regarding the anklet not being padded: if this is a high school kid who’s in a position to wear one in the first place, AND is being allowed to play with it on, do you really think he gives a damn if the thing is covered up or not?

49 – The player might not care but it is likely the county, city, muni, etc would care very much.

Regardless of whether the kid is at a sporting event or not, they still want to be able to track him for a multitude of reasons.

Second, those devices, I would imagine, are not cheap.

Actually, breaking such a device would not look so good in front of a judge when the sentencing came down, so I think the player would care very much, too.

Paging Peter Beans, Paging Peter Beans…Dept:

Whatever happened to “Booby Thursdy”, to complement Bunda Friday?

I am sick of the ’roids abousers Michell report dominating the sports world today.

I’m sure that when the kid went to court his defense public or private told the judge that he played football, adn would be traveling to and from games he participated in. Not to mention practices etc.

When my friend had one on, he only had to be home by a certain time. 10:00 PM or so and Could not leave his house until 6:00 AM.

#51,

 Hope this works as a temporary fix:

  http://meetme.hotornot.com/r/?emid=OUO8SYN

 In other news, Mike Leach’s dream of having his own pirate school may be coming closer to fruition than we think. Texas Tech is in danger of losing their accredidation.

 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22227553/

 If they no longer exist as a university, couldn’t Leach just simply begin handing out hats & parrots and bottles of rum? They’d still be a viable school with a football team, after all.

It’s real. The picture is from the Clark HS (Esplanade Ave, NOLA) vs Notre Dame (Crowley, LA) playoff game this year. Clark got whooped.

Definitely looks like an ipod strap to me, though a sad, sick part of me wish it were real. I think I just found a new facebook picture.

An argument over iPod/M. Stewart ankle bracelets. A nice break from the Patrino/Falcons/hogs thing.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/b/birmingham_city/4399737.stm

2 years ago jermaine pennant played with an ankle tag. He was in prison for borrowing his teammates car (whilst banned from driving for drink driving) after the teams xmas party. He was very drunk again, crashed the car into a lamppost. The car was £70,000 which he had to pay to his teammate as well as 4 months in prison

i’m pretty sure it doesn’t matter which county the guy is living in since, well, louisiana doesn’t have counties.

Fun fact: At my old school, a southern baptist football factory HS, (don’t you just love the south) we had a classmate who fathered a child at 14 and the coaches covered it up for 3 years. Once the headmaster and the board found out, he was gone. As in one period he was in class the next he gone.

I love the South, and I have never seen quite the sad desperation as some of the old mill towns in Connecticut had.

LA is in it’s own little world.

My senior year in HS, the corner who covered me in one of the games wore a house arrest braclet. The coaches at the other school, which I won’t name let him play because he got in trouble over the summer not in season. Yes that looks like a house arrest braclet.

How can you tell which schools are playing, you can’t see the helmets and I don’t see any opposing players.

Is there a different version of the picture that I missed?

I thought coaches gave these devices to their players to cut down on “character issues”?, no?

Absolutely 100% genuine. There’s an officiating discussion board I visit, and we’ve had several discussions about players wearing bracelets. The consensus varies depending on whether you’ve had to work a game with one of these players in it: if you haven’t, the answer is “of course he can wear it as long as it’s suitably padded”, and if you have then the answer is whatever the state office says it is, which is usually that he can wear it regardless of whether it’s padded or not.

Best part of this thread is the first-person expertise on ankle bracelets. Ya just knew that EDSBS only takes the top 1% of 1%.

ok, yea we played this team in the first round of the playoffs he does have a ankle braclet on and his paroll officer was there also

hmm im on house arrest right now, and a huge rule is that you cannot have anything between the anklet and you skin.

theres a heat censon and the socks throw them off so its a big no no.

so what the fuck is this guy doing? why the hell wouldnt he put a sock over it..

what a doucher…

ugh i was on house arrest and olayed basketball u just have to get a window for practice and games it mainly depends on your p.o. if they let u or not… and u are allowed to put stuff between the braclet it just depends on what kind of braclet you have there are many diff kinds