Real shocker here. State prosecutors worked tirelessly around the clock these past 72 hours because ALL charges were dropped this morning against Florida senior safety Tony Joiner regarding felony burglary charges for breaking into a Gainesville tow yard Tuesday morning to retrieve his girlfriend’s impounded car.
Towing company owner Stan Forron has since said the whole thing was a big misunderstanding and that Joiner “arranged” to pay the bill and pick up the car, but surprisingly NO ONE WAS AROUND during that 4:00am window when Joiner dropped by to push open the electric gate and attempt to take the car on his own and “settle up later”.
Are you kidding me? Seriously, does anyone really buy this load of mierda? Where is the media backlash for this nonsense? Again, how is Florida getting a pass here?
Urban Meyer really laid the smack down, stripping Joiner of his captaincy. Ooooooh. I’m sure #19 is crying on his big giant pillow. That “C” on his jersey means very little when you let him get his reps in against #1 LSU this weekend and an effort to save Florida’s season. Friggin hypocrite and b.s. artist.
Meyer hasn’t specified how much Joiner will play, if he’ll be suspended at all or if he’d even start. He did say Joiner would “pay a heavy price for his behavior internally for the next four weeks” yet in the next breath said “he will travel with the team for our game vs. LSU”.
I wonder how many sets of stadium stairs Joiner will have to run for it to be considered a “heavy price” paid.
Bet the farm Joiner sees significant playing time this weekend as the out-manned Gators need every veteran defender they have to pull off the upset in Death Valley. And also bet the farm that ol’ Mr. Forron is a diehard Gator and some sort of a booster who got a call from a certain higher up within the U of Florida athletic department telling him to drop those charges and consider “Towgate” a complete and utter misunderstanding.
Pathetic. As much as I hate LSU, I hope the Tigers run absolute train on the Gators this weekend.
.:Canes305:.
Where is all the media backlash?? If this were the Canes and this happened we’d be featured on 60 minutes and every 5, 6, 10 & 11 newws cast.
The quote by the owner of the property leased by the towing company, Stan Forron: “It’s like going to breakfast at Cracker Barrel and when you go to leave there’s no one there to take your money. How long are you going to wait?”. HUH? Even during those nights when I was completely obliterated in college and I was just finished throwing down a Grand Slam Breakfast from Denny’s at 4am after tearing up the clubs – I didn’t walk out on a bill .. what kind of statement is that and what kind of thinking is that? A grown man saying something like that, acting like it’s an accepted thing to do? When’s the last time outside the realm of being a teenager did anyone ever just walk out on a bill at a restaurant?
The first thing I thought when I read about Joiner pulling this crap is .. nothing is going to happen .. at all. I don’t understand how Urban Myth can say with a straight face that he’s still “getting information” about the incident “like a lot of people are.” What’s not to get? Read the damn police report – how hard is that? What do you not get about your senior captain/defensive leader rolling up on the towing company’s prop where his girl’s car is at 4am, pushing the gate open to get her car and just happened to be seen doing it by witnesses? The police even stated that Joiner was on his phone when they pulled up and heard him say “I am probably about to go to jail ‘cuz I did push the gate open.” Don’t mean to be Captain Obvious here, but sounds like Joiner even knew that he f*cked up, and he only stayed there b/c the witnesses saw him. If they weren’t there – Joiner would be off with his girl’s car, driving it like he stole it … wait, that analogy is too close to exactly what almost happened. You think if those witnesses weren’t there that Joiner would’ve just had an epiphany of an idea to do the right thing, go home get some sleep, wake up in a few more hours when the business was ACTUALLY OPEN – and get his girl’s car out? Joiner said he intended to pay the towing bill but got impatient? What the hell towing company is open at 4 or 5 am for business where you can pay and get your ride out?
Hey Joiner, I have an idea. Next time you want to go break into a towing company’s place and get your girl’s ride out .. why not make it a field trip for some of your teammates and do this: Take Dustin Doe with you to fight any witnesses that might see you around the area, since he likes to brawl in places where cars are kept (parking garages to be specific like he did this past April) .. then you can have Jamar Hornsby throw the witnesses onto the hood of their cars like he did back in April to a guy, if the witnesses give you any lip … then you can send Dorian Munroe into the towing yard to check to see if there’s a boot placed on your girl’s car, if there is, he can remove it and put it in his trunk just like he did with is own car back in May … John Curtis probably wouldn’t be any good during the mission of busting your girl’s car out, so you’d better leave him in the back of your car, sippin on some sy-syrup like a wino and avoiding his community service like he did back in May … and you’d have to make sure to keep an eye on Jacques Rickerson and Brandon James, b/c if they went along with you on the field trip, they’d probably stray from the “Free Joiner’s Girl’s Car” escape plan and wander off looking for someone to sell them some more sticky icky to smoke up, as they did respectively back in May and June … once you get in your girl’s car and start to drive off through the gate, Ronnie Wilson and Kenneth Tookes can raise their pieces in the air and start firing them off in celebration (respectively back in April for Wilson and February for Tookes), like it was Cinco De Mayo in the wild west … of course you’d need Andre Caldwell, Reggie Lewis and Dee Webb there to support the gun shooting celebration just like they did back in February, except this time their boy Kenneth would be firing his pistole into the air and not into an occupied apartment. When all is said and done, everyone could meet back at Urban Myth’s place, where Urban is polishing his latest 8×10 Glamour Shots photo of Tebow wearing nothing but a frilly blue and orange boa around his waist … pick out some used jockstraps of Tebow’s that Urban holds closely to his nose and sniffs when he longs for little Tim during lonely nights … autograph them and send them to lifelong Croc apologist Stan Forron, to cover up and dismiss any wrong doing – making sure to call it all a “misunderstanding”.
Between the Crocs and Bowden being complete hypocrites as disciplinarians .. all I can do is laugh. I embrace that the majority of people jump on the ‘Canes and throw the “program out of control” or “thugs” or “criminals” accusations on them if they even fart in the wrong direction … although the intelligent ones actually see Miami for what it really is and what it has produced, academically and athletically combined. Not too go political on anyone, but I see the Crocs and Bowden followers as Bill O’Reilly or Rush Limbaugh viewers/listeners- able to be controlled easily like mindless sheep that just follow along aimlessly without any kind of independent thinking. They can do no wrong, even when it’s blatantly out there for everyone to see. I see the ‘Canes as Keith Olbermann, Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert – we actually understand b/c we’re intelligent enough to do so. The rest of them hate us b/c they can’t or refuse to understand the truth about us – they are scared that they might be wrong about themselves or what they’ve been brought up to believe all along if they did. I don’t even know if that made sense, but in my mind – it did.
– S.Woodward, a die hard ‘Cane living in Tampa
S. Woodward is my new hero. Great analysis. Pretty pathetic that the rest of the media gives Florida a free pass here – yet if Miami fans open their mouths, it’s sour grapes.
Curious to see if anyone on GameDay crucifies Meyer for letting Joiner play.
Hopefully the Gators get rolled and it makes no difference – but if this plays out like the Jarvis Moss incident last year, Joiner gets two picks, houses one and is the MVP of the game, saving the Gators’ season… again.
F Florida.
I was watching College Gamday this morning and it took an hour and 45 minutes for Chris Fowler to even metion the Joiner situation. They spent about 5 seconds on the subject in passing, and even made a joke that they hoped Joiner was as aggressive against LSU as he was getting his girlfriend’s car out of the impound. Think The U would get the same treatment? NO way. This game was at the site of LSU and Florida and should have led the program. Urban Myth gets the benefit of the doubt because he is perceived to have charisma and the team just won a national championship. Give me a break.
-Columbus Cane