Babineaux arrested on marijuana charges
How in the world could a season of such promise turn so horribly bad?
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The officer found three bags containing a total of 40 grams of marijuana.
And that is why they’re charging him with intent to distribute? I imagine it’ll be reduced to a simple possession charge, but come on Babs!
Reporter: How will you address all of the dropped passes?
Mike Smith: I don’t think that we were as sharp as we have been catching the football. It’s something that is very fixable. It’s VERY fixable.
Anything over 28grams(1 oz)....
is a felony in GA. I doubt this gets reduced. The curse just wont let up!
by CowboyCurtis on Dec 11, 2009 10:03 AM EST up reply actions
wow ...
I double checked, and you’re absolutely right. That seems a little harsh for a first offense, but I guess that’s a discussion for a different sort of blog. I just hope he doesn’t have to serve any jail time.
Reporter: How will you address all of the dropped passes?
Mike Smith: I don’t think that we were as sharp as we have been catching the football. It’s something that is very fixable. It’s VERY fixable.
If I were his defense attorney
This would be my defense:
“Your Honor, have you seen the Falcons this year? My client had zero intention of distributing any of this marijuana, but did have every intention of smoking every last bit of it in an attempt to dull the pain and ease his depression.”
Case dismissed.
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by Jesse28 on Dec 11, 2009 11:26 AM EST up reply actions 5 recs
Oh Em Gee!
Rec’d like I’ve never rec’d before.
Reporter: How will you address all of the dropped passes?
Mike Smith: I don’t think that we were as sharp as we have been catching the football. It’s something that is very fixable. It’s VERY fixable.
Sorry
But there’s a certain point where I get tired of being upset, sad, and angry over this team and am left with nothing left but amusement and from that point on all I can do is laugh at this Benny Hill-esque team and everything that is happening.
/que circus music
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by Jesse28 on Dec 14, 2009 9:01 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Well put
It’s kind of an emotional circuit breaker. Rather than getting dangerously agitated, one protects himself via disconnection. You can still watch and have fun, though it’s more like watching an accident or crime scene. Been there several times over the years.
I'm 100% sure now of that curse.
I swear, we must have one magical season coming next year for all this horrendous luck this year.
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I feared this...
I remember thinking that Babs was trouble back when he killed his dog (overshadowed by the whole Vick thing). I never believed his story of self defense, but he was cleared.
It’s too bad that he’s our best D-lineman. This royally sucks. Now we may have another roster spot to fill in the off season. Miserable. Absolutely miserable.
Ugh, don't even go there...
Let’s hope this doesn’t turn out to be that serious. I don’t even want to THINK about the cap charge.
I don't know about releasing him
That sounds harsh. But a multiple game suspension will be coming down. I’d rather have it this year, than next and Babs needs to get his head together. Why would anybody cruise down 85 with an expired tag, smoking dope with 40 grams in the car?
Cops tend to throw the book at people who act like idiots…they even charged him with illegal window tinting. Who needs that on top of intent to distribute and driving without a license.
Maybe a little excessive...
…to release him over this. He is looking more and more like a problem child, though.
Lacking common sense
Here is a guy making millions a year and he drives around with expired tags? If his tags were legal he probably wouldnt have been pulled over (I havent heard if he was speeding or anything), if he doesnt get pulled over than nothing happens. As it is, we have a guy that cant pay his bills in a timely manner, has enough dope on him for a small party AND windows tinted too dark (was that one in part to a bad attitude towards the cop? I dont know)…sounds like we have a player without the ability to exercise common sense. And like someone said earlier, this is added on to his previous troubles.
My opinion? We dont need someone like this on our team as this sends a message that we dont care about team image and that will repudiate us from all the charitable events and community cohesiveness that Mr Blank and others have tried to establish as a “Falcon way of life”.
Just my opinion.
Agreed
Yes, he’s a great player for our D-line, but Blank has to draw the line. Babs has no good reason to be having Marijuana at all. He’s been in trouble before. And to have no tag, tented too dark windows, he doesn’t get it. For the team he wants to build, he has to be let go, and get a guy with more character. I mean if he wants to, Blank can become another Mike Brown, and look at them, the Bengals are 9-3. So it really depends what kind of team you want, a good team with character, or a good team with questionable histories.
by brotherbrown on Dec 11, 2009 5:33 PM EST up reply actions
Wow!
Could things possibly get any worse this year for this poor team? Intent to distribute, and 40 grams is a felony possession. The Falcons just gave him an extension as well. I’m just at a loss for words right now…
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by Edgecrusher211 on Dec 11, 2009 10:17 AM EST reply actions
What a stupid idiot.
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by orang3b on Dec 11, 2009 10:31 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
rec'd
Reporter: How will you address all of the dropped passes?
Mike Smith: I don’t think that we were as sharp as we have been catching the football. It’s something that is very fixable. It’s VERY fixable.
This is the second strike
I can’t imagine they’ll release him or anything, given that they just gave him an extension, but between that and the previously mentioned dog-killing incident he’s been a headache for the team twice now. His talent aside, that kind of stuff never flies for long.
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by Dave Choate on Dec 11, 2009 11:01 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
Ugh
just suspend him for the rest of the season. Maybe this off season he can get his stuff together
Come on Babs
You can’t do that in the privacy of your own home?
No way
He was playing Santa Clause and delivering stocking stuffers to all us fans. (I know, this completely kills my defense statement above, but w/e.)
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I'm dreaming of a green christmas?
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by Dave Choate on Dec 11, 2009 11:34 AM EST up reply actions
How do you figure the team responds to this?
We obviously didn’t need this distraction, added to that the injuries, and now we’re probably going to be missing the only bright spot on the D this year.
Is there reason at all to have hope we can pull the game out this Sunday? I have zero hope right now. This is a horrible feeling.
by LongSufferingFalconsFan on Dec 11, 2009 11:35 AM EST reply actions
Unfathomably stupid. Trade him.
Blank must be furious. Babs had to know his tag was expired (his vehicle), yet he drives around smoking weed in it? My God, that’s what teenagers do! Smoke that sh!t at home, dumb ass!
and no drivers' license, aparently
his car was probably also colored BRIGHT yellow so that the cops could see him
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Now the Falcons need to find his replacement
Even if he gets off with a slap on the wrist, that’s his second legal problem due to poor judgment / impulse control. As a Falcon, he’s a goner, not unlike Lawyer Milloy last year. Now, TD has yet another hole to fill on his offseason “to do” list. Sigh.
Replacement
Several problems with trying to trade him. The biggest in my mind would be trying to get fair value. Before the 2008 season, four DT’s were traded:
CAR traded DT Kris Jenkins to NYJ for a 3rd round draft pick & a 5th rounder.
JAX traded DT Marcus Stroud to BUF for a 3rd & a 5th.
GB traded DT Corey Williams to CLE for a 2nd round draft pick.
DET traded DT Shaun Rogers to CLE for a 3rd rounder & CB Leigh Bodden.
Is a 3rd and a 5th enough to ship off one of our best defensive players, that just last November signed a 5-year, $25 Million contract extension? I don’t know – but creating a hole in the roster, when there are already plenty of holes at other positions, doesn’t seem like a very smart move. Hopefully TD will spend the next several months thinking that one over…
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Sheesh
Jettisoning Babs sounds mighty expensive, indeed. From a personnel perspective, it probably is unwise, granted. ProFootballFocus.com has him rated #4 among DTs.
Blank is hypersensitive about this kind of public black eye, though. My personal feeling is that he won’t tolerate this; image has almost always been paramount to Blank, going back to his early Home Depot days. “Perception is Reality” was a ubiquitous corporate mantra then, and I’m not sure that’s changed too much.
Oh, ke-RAP!!
I guess he’s gotta do someting to erase the pain. Why couldn’t he have intent to distribute Hennesy?
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ima genius
maybe we could start a letter writing campaign and get congress to legalize reefer by the time he goes to sentencing…
Just don't smoke up before you argue
Or your logic may not be sound.
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ex post facto
would prevent that, anyway. Just in opposite terms.
"Ryan, under center. Single receiver set, time on his side. Ryan, gonna throw. First professional pass.....CAUGHT!! Jenkins! 30! 25! 20! 15! 10! 5! He lives in Atlanta!!!" -Wes Durham
Except
The oppositeness is crucial. Marijuana legalization could easily be enacted retroactively.
Maybe there is no Heaven. Or maybe this is all pure gibberish — a product of the demented imagination of a lazy drunken hillbilly with a heart full of hate who has found a way to live out where the real winds blow — to sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky, and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind except falling in love and not getting arrested...Res ipsa loquitur. Let the good times roll.
by iRonin on Dec 12, 2009 5:05 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
the mary jane laws need to be changed
DUI on the other hand needs punishment. my two dogs are not happy with him at all..
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by armchair quarterback on Dec 11, 2009 5:55 PM EST up reply actions
Hard times may make that happen
Some form of legalization & taxation is gaining momentum in many places. BTW, local Atlanta TV news reported it was a police DOG that located the weed in Babs’ vehicle. Kind of ironic, K-9 revenge!
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"Ryan, under center. Single receiver set, time on his side. Ryan, gonna throw. First professional pass.....CAUGHT!! Jenkins! 30! 25! 20! 15! 10! 5! He lives in Atlanta!!!" -Wes Durham
On the brightside
They did change it from intent to distribute….but it still felony possession. Why would you do this on the week of our Season defining game? KEEP YOUR PLATE UP TO DATE!
No choice
An intent to distribute charge would’ve been utter BS. They’d never have pulled it off without more evidnce. They didn’t do him any favors; they both carry the same penalty (he’ll be on probation for a year or two).
Maybe there is no Heaven. Or maybe this is all pure gibberish — a product of the demented imagination of a lazy drunken hillbilly with a heart full of hate who has found a way to live out where the real winds blow — to sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky, and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind except falling in love and not getting arrested...Res ipsa loquitur. Let the good times roll.
by iRonin on Dec 12, 2009 5:12 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
When it rains it pours
I'll Have A Matty Ice Please.
by IllHaveAMattyIcePlease on Dec 11, 2009 2:49 PM EST reply actions
Story of this year, no doubt.
If there’s anything I’ve learned over the past 12 months, “When it rains, it pours” is the most true statement ever made. For shame.
"Ryan, under center. Single receiver set, time on his side. Ryan, gonna throw. First professional pass.....CAUGHT!! Jenkins! 30! 25! 20! 15! 10! 5! He lives in Atlanta!!!" -Wes Durham
In his defense (don't hate me)
Driving with expired tags isn’t a hard thing to do, especially when you’re as rich as he is.
He probably has a collection of cars and pulled an old one out to go for a cruise and a joint. What he didn’t think about was if the tags were valid or not. The officer pulled him over, and, as with many traffic stops, slapped another 15000 charges on him.
If Babs was an ass to the officer, then I wouldn’t doubt if the officer through in crap like “intent to distribute” and “tinted window violation” among other things. Whether you admit it or not, stuff like that happens.
Either that or the cop wasn’t a Birds fan.
But ya know, I don’t really have a problem if he wants to smoke some weed. Before you jump on me for that, I do have a problem with a player coming to practice high or lacking in production because of weed. I wouldn’t have a problem if he lit up a fat one after practice because he ached all over. I would also have a problem with it if he was abusing it, such as driving around high and such.
Let’s face it. Many, many people (and even more pro football players it seems these days) smoke weed. Marijuana is now legal in some states for medical purposes, but the fact remains the same. It can be used to get high, or it can be used for whatever the medical purpose is. Morphine-like stuff. I wouldn’t know, I don’t smoke the stuff, I just know that it’s legal in some states.
To sum it all up, if Babs was smoking weed for the medicinal properties of it, then I don’t really look down on him for that. If he was doing it just to get high (more likely) then I’ve got a problem with it. My two cents.
"Ryan, under center. Single receiver set, time on his side. Ryan, gonna throw. First professional pass.....CAUGHT!! Jenkins! 30! 25! 20! 15! 10! 5! He lives in Atlanta!!!" -Wes Durham
I’m sure there are a ton of NFL players who smoke weed and we never hear about it because they’re smart enough not to do stuff like this.
by Mountvillainy on Dec 11, 2009 11:18 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah.
It’s just the stupid ones that get caught. It’s really not hard to get away with so long as you’re not toting it around town. I mean, if the moronic 15 year old high school kids can get away with it, then surely a college grad can if they just use their brain (instead of frying it) for 5 minutes.
"Ryan, under center. Single receiver set, time on his side. Ryan, gonna throw. First professional pass.....CAUGHT!! Jenkins! 30! 25! 20! 15! 10! 5! He lives in Atlanta!!!" -Wes Durham
I don't care that he smokes weed
If he does, whatever. As you said, as long as his performance isn’t affected I’m not getting worked up about it. It’s more that he’s put himself in this situation.
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I agree. There's a place and a time for everything. He did it wrong.
"Ryan, under center. Single receiver set, time on his side. Ryan, gonna throw. First professional pass.....CAUGHT!! Jenkins! 30! 25! 20! 15! 10! 5! He lives in Atlanta!!!" -Wes Durham
Do ALL the Falcon have trouble with pot and pit bulls?
For the love of cripes. I’m just mystified. Say it ain’t seaux!!
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Babs is one dumb mfer
I am a lifetime Falcon fan and a proponent of legalizing marijuana. Babs is a dumb mfer. It kills me as a dedicated fan – not because he smokes of course but for driving around with an expired tag, etc with more than an ounce. Racial profiling by the cop? If you mean another black athlete not being responsible and playing into the stereotype, well then yes. HOW MUCH DOES A GD LICENSE PLATE RENEWAL, DRIVER’S LICENSE and TAG LIGHT COST?!?! Dumb.
Also, are you telling me he couldn’t get someone to deliver?? In ATL?!?!?
it is sad. all of those are inexpensive, especially with his income.
it’s either laziness or he just simply forgot. i’d like to think it was the second one, but we all know that’s probably not true.
"Ryan, under center. Single receiver set, time on his side. Ryan, gonna throw. First professional pass.....CAUGHT!! Jenkins! 30! 25! 20! 15! 10! 5! He lives in Atlanta!!!" -Wes Durham
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