Just last February, Tyler Thomas was a kid from Montana who’d made good, heading to Oregon State – a fine program – on a football scholarship. Now, a mere 1.5 years later, Thomas finds himself off the team, thanks to a weekend arrest under some truly bizarre circumstances.
Those circumstances? Well, let’s just let the AP’s writeup do the talking:
“[P]olice say they found [Thomas] naked and intoxicated in a stranger’s home and had to use stun guns to take him into custody.”
Naked, intoxicated, stranger’s home – this is not a good combination. And why did police need to tase him (bro)?
Thomas refused and instead dropped into a three-point stance like a football player (ed. note: look at left to see Thomas doing this in a much, much more appropriate setting) and lunged at the officers, [Lt. Tim] Brewer said.
The three-point stance really makes the entire story. It wasn’t enough to be drunk, naked, and really creepily trespassing – he just had to put that capper on his night (and Pac-10 football career).
Of course, this story is actually pretty sad/scary: we wouldn’t feel comfortable in our own home for a while if we found a giant (Thomas is a 300-or-so-pound offensive lineman), naked, drunk man just lying there without our knowledge. And Thomas is only 19 and has now ruined an opportunity most people can only dream of getting.
For the record, we don’t expect 19-year-olds to be perfect. I’ve always been a mild-mannered guy and yet, at 19, still allowed myself to be photographed, in public, looking like this.
We would, though, reasonably expect 19-year-olds not to trespass, or be naked while doing it, or then resist arrest by attempting to charge at cops like they’re defensive linemen that need to be blocked. Call us old-fashioned, but we’d at least hope everyone would be capable of that much.
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