Kane Arrested; Media Firestorm Ensues

Neely4Life wrote:

Big Pimpin'!



This is my fav...

bahaha those are hilarioius, the NHL cover is epic

Dawg's Wife wrote:

hemlock wrote:
Or you are a cheap bastard who isn't willing to tip a working man out of your millions.

This is not an action that is defendable in my opinion. This wasn't from the National Enquirer DTR, it came from the police report. I'm shocked that you are defending this.

Hem,

The police report is nothing more than the cabbie detailing in writing what happened. I'll wait to see if the police follow through with charges and the outcome of their investigation. If it is true then I'm appalled and I'm not the only one, I can only say that the converstaions Dawg has had this morning has a tone of cautious disapproval that a parent would have after hearing their child beat up another child several years younger.

I'm only hearing one side of the converstaion but I can assume that people in Chicago want some answers, and then will have very little sympathy for Kane if he is indeed guilty. Dawg says Scotty B. and the rest of the management team will not have much time for these types of actions.

DW

Let me ask you this. Why, if this is only about 20 cents, would the cabbie not embellish the story? I mean if he's only in it to get paid, and is willing to lie to police, would he not make the claim that he was cheated out of $50 (or hell $500).

I don't know the truth obviously, but the man had bruises and whatnot, so I guess we can believe that the cabbie is being truthful, or he's embellishing the story. Or maybe he beat himself up and made up the 20 cent story. That's the real flag here for me about this story.

It will be interesting to see what the franchise will do if this story has legs.

davetherave wrote:

hemlock wrote:

davetherave wrote:

Neely4Life wrote:http://tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=287230

Whaaaaaaaat

I read the story in the Buffalo News.

A dispute over a $15 dollar cab fare and a little more than a dollar in change...and who knows what provoked it.

Aaron Besecker of the Buffalo News:

"Kane, 20, and James M. Kane, 21, were arrested about 5 a.m. on Eastwood Place, according to Buffalo police reports.

The pair allegedly punched the cab driver and grabbed money they had handed him after he told them he didn't have twenty cents in coins to give them their change, the report said.

Their fare was $13.80 and they handed the driver $15, according to a report.

The cab driver told police he was punched in the face and head, grabbed by the throat and had his glasses broken during the incident."

Allegedly is the operative word.

That's what happens when you're a famous hockey player and you get into an argument in public.

Or you are a cheap bastard who isn't willing to tip a working man out of your millions.

This is not an action that is defendable in my opinion. This wasn't from the National Enquirer DTR, it came from the police report. I'm shocked that you are defending this.

Hem, you have no facts.

Or have you seen the police report?

But of course, you have an opinion.



And I challenge you to tell me where I 'defend' Patrick Kane. There's nothing to defend about an incident of this nature.

Don't bother responding to my posts dtr. I have next to zero respect for you.

Well that's not very nice.

I'll never forget hearing a guy call Ron Fournier's radio show claiming that he gave Mike Modano a deal on cowboy boots with the understanding that there would be tickets at the will-call for him for a Montreal-Dallas game and he alleges he got stiffed...

Good times.

Neely4Life wrote:Well that's not very nice.

Haha. Hi Pot, I'm kettle.

Doesnt mean it was very nice, tisk tisk.

hemlock wrote:[


Don't bother responding to my posts dtr. I have next to zero respect for you.

Ooh, Hemmy--or is it Zoolander?--you're so cute when you're angry.

Are you going to quit the forum again?

hemlock wrote:

Dawg's Wife wrote:

hemlock wrote:
Or you are a cheap bastard who isn't willing to tip a working man out of your millions.

This is not an action that is defendable in my opinion. This wasn't from the National Enquirer DTR, it came from the police report. I'm shocked that you are defending this.

Hem,

The police report is nothing more than the cabbie detailing in writing what happened. I'll wait to see if the police follow through with charges and the outcome of their investigation. If it is true then I'm appalled and I'm not the only one, I can only say that the converstaions Dawg has had this morning has a tone of cautious disapproval that a parent would have after hearing their child beat up another child several years younger.

I'm only hearing one side of the converstaion but I can assume that people in Chicago want some answers, and then will have very little sympathy for Kane if he is indeed guilty. Dawg says Scotty B. and the rest of the management team will not have much time for these types of actions.

DW

Let me ask you this. Why, if this is only about 20 cents, would the cabbie not embellish the story? I mean if he's only in it to get paid, and is willing to lie to police, would he not make the claim that he was cheated out of $50 (or hell $500).

I don't know the truth obviously, but the man had bruises and whatnot, so I guess we can believe that the cabbie is being truthful, or he's embellishing the story. Or maybe he beat himself up and made up the 20 cent story. That's the real flag here for me about this story.

It will be interesting to see what the franchise will do if this story has legs.

It's not a dispute over just 20 cents, that was the initial reason for the conflict according to the story. The story went on to say that the Kanes took their money back ($15) and beat up the cabbie when he got into an argument with them over them not paying their fare.

If you take a taxi, and you don't pay your fare, it's called stealing. It's no different than stealing a dvd from a futureshop or a shirt from a clothing store. The fact that the police have charged them with felony robbery and misdemeanour counts of theft of services and criminal mischief indicates that there is substantial legs behind this story.

What comes of it? Who knows. But for anyone just brushing this story off as a nothing is ridiculous.

davetherave wrote:

hemlock wrote:[


Don't bother responding to my posts dtr. I have next to zero respect for you.

Ooh, Hemmy--or is it Zoolander?--you're so cute when you're angry.

Are you going to quit the forum again?

Erm no. The difference is that before, you had the nerve to tell me I didn't have the right to criticize Don Waddell's tenure as Atlanta GM. You see, back then, I actually respected you as a postive contributor to this board. Now I realize that you are a windbag who's more interested in seeing his own print.

Since then, I've grown to see that you are the most immature 54 man in the history of humankind. You repeatedly show a blantant disregard for others by continuing to post full legnth newspaper articles here when a simple web link would do. I'm going to assume (since you love that so much) that you do it because it irks people (see the thread where several people agreed with me that it's annoying) and you somehow get off on that. You don't seem to acknowledge or care that people have expressed that you stop doing that, and instead post a link so that people can decide whether or not to read a full story or not without having you cram it down our throats. You have also on occasion cricitized people for their opinions here. Who the Diddle are you to tell someone their opinion is right or wrong?

In short, ingoring you is really no big deal anyway, since I skip 9/10 of your posts as it is. And I can assure you I am not the only one. I see those full page posts of some news article and more often than not, I skip right by them. If I want to read news, I'll go to the site. When you aren't busy doing that or telling people what their opinions ought to be, you are posting some other fluff then turning it "Over to you GM members". Very little of what comes out of your mouth is actually worth reading.

Finally, the fact thay you bring up the quit the forum comment is proof that you are only looking to antogonize me. I don't let it bother me now since I have no, none, zero, respect for you. You are incapable of seeing your own faults.

Neely4Life wrote:Doesnt mean it was very nice, tisk tisk.

Thanks, but you'll excuse me if that means very little coming from you. You are by far the rudest, most unkind person on this board. You've practically admitted that yourself.

Do you have high blood pressure?

Neely4Life wrote:Do you have high blood pressure?

Nope. It's actually bordering on low. Thanks for asking though.

Ya, I just took mine too, 126 over 74... while I was drinking a coffee. Pretty happy with that.

Anyways, that was quite the rant, pretty unaccurate in regards to DTR, but entertaining non the less.

I wouldn't say it was inaccurate...