S. F. Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum, the Cy Young Award winner for 2008, was stopped for speeding earlier this week in Washington. The officer also found a small amount of marijuana and a pipe in Lincecum's car. In Washington the amount of pot in Lincecum's car is an infraction. The ticket may be no more expensive than his speeding ticket. According the to the San Francisco Chronicle the on line reader response has been blase. Most people don't care. In the on line sports forum on the Chronicle's web site comments included "I'd definitely burn one with Timmeh!" and "This is news?" Chronicle sports columnist Scott Ostler asked a more interesting question. In his column today he said "One of the great mysteries of sports is why so many athletes load their cars with a mixture of drugs, handguns and expired drivers' licenses, then ask themselves, 'Dude, how fast do you think this baby will go in a hospital zone?'"
In more bizarre herbal news, in Salem, OR a man was arrested for DUI after making a 911 call to report that someone had stolen his marijuana from his truck while he was in a bar. Apparently the 911 dispatcher had difficulty communicating with the man because during the phone call the man, who was driving his truck at the time, stopped several times to vomit. The story does not mention whether or not the police recovered the missing stash. It's nice to know that average people can be even more narcissistic than professional athletes.
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The athlete, I think, rightly feels, based on the evidence, that he doesn't live in the same world we do.
Fortunately one was in a car and the other was not a role model - maybe.
He handed the tape over to the sheriff's department, who investigated this crime and arrested the thieves, and the one that was robbed..