A Modest Fulmer Cup Award Proposal
by Jamie DeVriend on Jul 18, 2010 9:30 PM EDT
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PrintWe all love the Fulmer Cup and the Ellis T. Jones Award. (Except when our school wins it). But perhaps we should recognize that not all arrests are created equal. In particular, police forces in Southern college towns are diligently finding new and creative ways to arrest student-athletes for things that don't even sound like real crimes. It is in this vein that I would like to propose the following award:
The Joseph H. "Jack" Lumpkin, Sr. Award.
This award would be given out to the most ticky-tack, bullshit arrest of the offseason. The kind of arrest that people roll their eyes at and think, "Really, there's a law against that?" or "Oh please, college kids do that all the time." The kind of arrest that a coach thinks is so stupid that they barely discipline the kid who got busted. The kind of arrest that boils down to "__________ while black." That kind of arrest.
Why name the award after Mr. Lumpkin? Because he is the longtime police chief in Athens, Georgia, widely recognized as the trail blazers of ridiculous athlete arrests. Whether it's scooter-related infractions, being passed out drunk on a toilet while taking a dump, the always dangerous "emerging from an alley", or passing cars on the right on a two-lane road, no one busts more heads for more flimsy reasons that the Athens-Clarke County Police Department.
I feel if we are going to honor the single athlete who goes above and beyond to try and claim the Fulmer Cup for his team, we should also honor the overzealous, surly, and possibly bigoted officer who goes above and beyond to arrest them for some trumped-up crime that is either dismissed outright, or quickly swept out of court with a small fine or community service ordered so the judge can get the hell out of there before his tee time.
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Ironic, don't you think?
Under normal circumstances, ND is ranked in the pre-season and unranked at the end.
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Also the “would not give middle name” arrest happened in Hattiesburg.
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by Jamie DeVriend on Jul 19, 2010 3:02 AM EDT up reply actions
Did a Southern Miss guy get that too?
It was in Athens, and the magistrate refused to back down once the cops relented a reasonable mistake.
by Mr. Sanchez on Jul 19, 2010 11:53 AM EDT up reply actions
How is Emerging from an alley a crime
unless you are emergining with 100 pounds of Meth or Cocaine I doubt its an actual crime
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As I recall
In Georgia you must come to a complete stop prior to emerging onto a primary thoroughfare from an alley. The player in question did not bring his scooter to said complete stop and was summarily arrested.
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by MtnEer_in_SC on Jul 19, 2010 10:16 AM EDT up reply actions
Then why isn't called a traffic violation
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by WVPiratesfan on Jul 19, 2010 10:32 AM EDT up reply actions
How do you explain the unexplainable?
Can we just say A-CC/UGA PD and move on. Once that is involved, the reasoning of why someone is under arrest goes out the window.
Also, in pairing with this award, I propose the <a href="http://sawww.co.alachua.fl.us/" >William P. Cervone Award for the most dismissed points due to charges being dropped by a friendly prosecutor.
by Mr. Sanchez on Jul 19, 2010 11:56 AM EDT up reply actions
Who is John Galt?
I was just checking the specs on the endline... for the... rotary girder...
by Minnesota Fats on Jul 19, 2010 4:00 PM EDT up reply actions
Which begs the question:
would a scooter be the only getaway vehicle worse than a Prius?
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by HoodRiverDuck on Jul 19, 2010 1:30 PM EDT up reply actions
Prius is far superior
First it is quiet and secondly, it does not result in said football player looking like this
by TangoHotelWhiskeyGolf on Jul 19, 2010 5:13 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm All For It
As I’ve explained to folks (especially from Da Ewe) who go on the “SEC recruits thugs” rant, in places like Gainesville and Athens, you can basically get arrested for exhaling through your mouth after wind sprints, whereas in Miami-Dade, you’d have to be strolling down the sidewalk toting a human head like some latter-day Perseus before the police even look twice at you.
That being said, can we get a plaque made, do a photo-op with the chief of whatever agency wins the award each year? Just call the department, let them know they’ve won the Lumpkin award, ask when it can be delivered, not let them know it’s for “most bullshit arrest” until they receive it? Or do you think that a stunt like that would get the presenter arrested?
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Such a stunt would
get the presenter arrested in Athens.
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Honestly, though
I feel like Jack Lumpkin would actually win the Jack Lumpkin award more often than not. Although UGAPD would give him a run for his money this year with the “failure-to-give-middle-name-one-has-never-used-while-not-being-involved-in-a-crime-in-any-way” arrest.
Yeah, but . . .
. . . Ian Smith’s infraction was the single funniest arrest in the five-year history of the Fulmer Cup. From a purely selfish perspective, I want MORE like that, not less.
i would like to go against the trend here and say that i personally support Mr. Lumpkin, or as i know him "Chief"
I have worked with Chief Lumpkin because he volunteered to be the security personnel at the Athens airport where i worked. I can not count the afternoons we spent talking about UGA sports, and football in particular. There is no bigger supporter of the UGA athletic program that i can think of. It is not his fault that kids drive the wrong way down streets or pass out drunk or forget their middle name. And i highly doubt he was the arresting officer on any of these cases. I also doubt he was the person who wrote any of these laws that these guys broke. Yes, they are silly, but i promise just as many other students get in trouble for other silly stuff. We just dont hear about those. Now i am not suggesting that any of these arrests are worth the time it takes, but lets not make Chief the scapegoat. I bet many of you know someone who has gotten arrested or recieved a ticket for some completely bogus reason. Its not just the athletes, and its not just Athens.
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I'm sure it happens elsewhere
but it sure seems to happen a lot more in Athens. Not that I’m complaining.
I think it happends everywhere...
Eli Manning got an underage drinking citation @ Ole Miss, REALLY? Underage drinking..I guess he( the cop) can tell his grandkids about that, I would understand IF Eli was driving, but come on….
Please.
Police aren’t robots blindly enforcing whatever rules the government forces on them. Any decent cop knows he’s expected to bring his judgement and common sense to bear on the job and the conduct of his men reflects directly on their chief’s leadership so it doesn’t matter whether he’s the arresting officer or not.
If we were talking about a single incident you’d have an argument, but Chief Lumpkin allows his officers to repeatedly haul folks in over ticky-tac bullshit and it makes him look like he places a very high value on his department’s ability to exercise their authority and very little value on a citizen’s time, money, etc. In short, it makes him and his department look like a pack of petty pricks. If he feels that perception’s unfair he could change it by simply telling his officers to stop wasting their time harrassing people over trivial offenses.
by SeanH on Jul 19, 2010 8:16 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
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