Police arrested O.J. Simpson on Sunday, saying he was part of an armed group who burst into a Las Vegas hotel room and snatched memorabilia that documented his own sports career, long ago eclipsed by scandal.
Simpson was at the Clark County Detention Center on Sunday night for booking on two counts of robbery with a deadly weapon, two counts of assault with a deadly weapon, conspiracy to commit a crime and burglary with a firearm, police said. The district attorney, meanwhile, said he expected Simpson to ultimately be charged with seven felonies and one gross misdemeanor.
Simpson, 60, has said he and other people were retrieving items that belonged to him. Simpson has said there were no guns involved and that he went to the room at the casino only to get stolen mementos that included his Hall of Fame certificate and a picture of the running back with J. Edgar Hoover.
Astounding... Yeah, he is... the ballsiest.
I guess you just can't satisfy some people. They can never be far enough ahead or up or... I don't even know. But I know they can't leave well enough alone
Here's a man who got away with the CRIME-OF-THE-CENTURY and then-- Wait, I'm sorry, what's missing there? That thing that people say all the time, for all the wrong reasons but it's actually appropriate here? Literally! Yes, that's it. He LITERALLY got away with the crime of the century...
That's what it was dubbed, right? The trial of the century. The crime at the center of that trial would therefore be the crime of the century, right? Also making him the criminal of the century? I don't think it trickles down to, like, bailiff of the century and stenographer of the century or "guy who sells oat bars, bananas and Certs," of the century, but I'm confident with my use of "crime of...."
He gets away with murder, two of them, actually. Scot
free, with the exception of some fines he hasn't really payed yet.
He gets to live a leisure-filled life as a wealthy man, playing golf, dining out, etc.
He surprisingly, somehow, manages to go through his days getting neither attacked nor hassled nor pelted with debris nor... anything, really.
But that's not enough. He says, why not write a book about this murder? Even though the father of one of my victims is still alive aaaannd people whose daughters have been murdered tend to have a sore spot for people profiting from their daughter's death... even in situations where the guy profiting doesn't happen to be the guy who also did the killing... Yeah.
He gets away with all of this.
And then he finds himself in a hotel room, shortly before the above scenario, hearing about a few guys who may be in possession of some of his own stolen sports memorabilia... He could have called the police... or tried talking to the men... or, even, realized that even without the memorabilia, he's still ahead in the grand scheme of things, undoubtedly richer than the men hawking the goods and you know what, life's too short, who cares, they can have the stuff, etc...
But what does he do? He says... (Long pause. Picture him turning towards camera, finger pointed in anger.)
"No... FUCK THAT... I want that fucking signed jersey and the fucking rookie card, right god damn now! And I'm gonna go get it!"
I love oj despite the things he did it brought me and my grandma together and share an interest even if we were just sitting there watching the trial on tv not saying a word... spending that time with her was a great time in my life so ty oj!!
writing a book about how you THEORETICALLY would have killed someone (that you were on trial for, no less) is the definition of arrogant, murdering asshole. he's right up there with Georgie Boy!
When pogs were a hot item to have, I had a sweet O.J. slammer. it was gold and on one side was a picture of him smiling and it said not guilty, and the other side he was pouting and it said guilty,( or something like that ) It was my favorite slammer.
gnihk said:
When pogs were a hot item to have, I had a sweet O.J. slammer. it was gold and on one side was a picture of him smiling and it said not guilty, and the other side he was pouting and it said guilty,( or something like that ) It was my favorite slammer.
Small world. I had a slammer that had an orange w/"32" on the side, sitting in a frying pan, that said, "Fry the Juice!"
The property WAS stolen from him, as proven by the moron in the room screaming, IT WAS SO-AND-SO who took your thingamabob" (paraphrase) He went ot get his shit back, big deal. Ya, he is a murdering scumbag, but he was just retrieving stolen property this time, more power to him.
Oh, and I really do hope that this trial will find its way to a jury and that jury will realize that karma has brought him right back to the place he escaped from once before because of human error and this is fate is giving them a second chance and telling them SEND THAT FUCKER TO PRISON!
i love oj!
okay, maybe not, but i love his balls.
wait. that didn't come out right.
what i mean is that i loved those naked gun movies he was in. (yeah, seriously. and i know how lame that is)
aaaaaaaaand his balls are of inestimable fortitude.
that just has to be admired.
now, what he does with them, or by their influence, that's a different thing.
Real balls are doing something where you need to conquer your fear to achieve something, generally worthwile.
You would not say a baby who crawls in front of a speeding train and just nearly gets smashed into little pieces had balls, becuse the baby is completely ignorant of the consequences of their actions.
A person who knowingly risks their life to run in front of a speeding train to save the baby has balls.
Five men with guns bursting into a hotel room to confront two unarmed men is not "ballsy". Guns do not make you you ballsy
OJ has shown he is an arogant sociopath with no regard for others, the rule of law, or civilized society.
saintverlaine said:
Real balls are doing something where you need to conquer your fear to achieve something, generally worthwile.
You would not say a baby who crawls in front of a speeding train and just nearly gets smashed into little pieces had balls, becuse the baby is completely ignorant of the consequences of their actions.
A person who knowingly risks their life to run in front of a speeding train to save the baby has balls.
Five men with guns bursting into a hotel room to confront two unarmed men is not "ballsy". Guns do not make you you ballsy
OJ has shown he is an arogant sociopath with no regard for others, the rule of law, or civilized society.
That is not balls. That is pathetic.
I'm not sure you understand my point. I agree with what you're saying, he's a horrible person, and a killer. This piece was not meant to pat him on the back or celebrate him, balls doesn't automatically mean something positive. I'm not saying he's awesome and I don't actually believe he's got balls.
His behavior here is unbelievably brazen, the level of gall is just... unfathomable. And that point isn't really covered by calling him "evil." I could've went with calling him "crazy" or a "lunatic" but those points of view aren't nearly as funny to me. The idea that all this was fueled by balls, is.
Of course he's a sociopath, but when I heard about this incident the first thing that came to mind was "the fucking nerve of this guy!, wtf! i fucking can't believe it..."
Man, I thought I was gonna get shit for saying he's guilty, not using balls...
Alfred Beardsley, one of the sports memorabilia collectors involved in the alleged robbery, has said he wants the case dropped and that he's "on O.J.'s side."
Not that I give a shit, but this still kinda says something...
TheCoolerKing
NEWSWIRE
Los Angeles, CA
SEP 17, 2007 04:11 PM