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After OWI arrest, Tony Romo withdraws from Texas State Open

Tony Romo has yet to say anything publicly since Thursday's arrest in Milwaukee for suspicion of operating while intoxicated.
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Tony was arrested after playing in a golf tournament in Wisconson. Rumor has it that he was fed drinks by a Patriots Planet member who was also in Wisconsin.
As punishment, Tony had to withdraw from a golf tournament in Texas.
He will also have to do counseling with Mark Sanchez.
 
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I have no sympathy for these rich celebrities who get nailed for OUI.
They can certainly afford to hire a car and driver or call a Uber. Their fine and sentence should be tripled for being so arrogant.
 
ParanoidPatriot said:
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After OWI arrest, Tony Romo withdraws from Texas State Open

Tony Romo has yet to say anything publicly since Thursday's arrest in Milwaukee for suspicion of operating while intoxicated.
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Tony was arrested after playing in a golf tournament in Wisconson. Rumor has it that he was fed drinks by a Patriots Planet member who was also in Wisconsin.
As punishment, Tony had to withdraw from a golf tournament in Texas.
He will also have to do counseling with Mark Sanchez.
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I got him totally wasted! :D

You made me laugh. I appreciate that.
 
king of kings said:
Where is a certain member going off on a huge moral outrage rant :rofl:
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Not me. In my not too distant younger days I was very lucky not to be stopped coming back from meetings.
However I'm not a rich celebrity who has contacts and can more than afford to have a driver or at minimum a Uber.
There have been several that been stopped for OUI. All seem to want to make excuses, when they have the means and contacts to avoid the situation. :lecture:
 
I get the whole beef with rich celebrities getting away with stuff, but the fact of the matter is if you can afford to drink, you can afford to be responsible about it. And you can afford to take a taxi home or get a ride. And if you can't, you shouldn't be drinking a lot when you're out.
 
In Romo's defense, i didn't hear him say, "Do you know who I am?"

But he appeared unkempt and drunk to me. OTOH he was also cooperative.

And he twice said Every lawyer I've talked to told me not to take the blow test. If I'm a cop, I'm thinking how many lawyers do you talk to about what to do when stopped while driving drunk. I suspect he didn't get any lawyering advice or he would have exited the vehicle immediately. Rule #1 is that you have to obey legal orders in an investigation. If they were later found to be illegal, that will come out in court and get your charges reduced or dropped. Refusing will get you another charge and make a plea deal more difficult.

I think his biggest mistake was saying thinks like, "I've had two back surgeries," a couple of times. I'm not a lawyer, but I do write songs and I used to write fiction and nonfiction as a side job and know what lands impactfully and what doesn't. Lots of people have back surgeries. Saying so is just the noise before defeat. Rather say I have severe back injuries and multiple surgeries. I am in agony sitting here with my legs spayed. May I please stand up while you talk to me? I've been fully cooperative and will not cause a problem. I'm taking painkillers right now (this would have helped with the field sobriety test). If I sit here much longer I'm afraid I'll pass out or go into shock. Personally, I would add (if I still drank) I need to go to the hospital before I pass out or worse.

Calm, polite, mater-of-fact, and give the cops something they might bungle procedure-wise.
 
HSanders said:
I get the whole beef with rich celebrities getting away with stuff
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It isn't right, and it happens, but everyone these days seems to get a plea deal. I used to hate it. I still get suspicious when charges are dismissed, but I've come to realize that a plea deal with probation does involve a conviction on someone's record and even the dropped charges are read in to the record.

A plea deal saves a ton of court time and money and when paired with probation are a good compromise IMO. If the person simply made a one-off mistake, and they can finish a two-year probation without violating any one the dozens of stipulations, then I'm good with them being initially sentenced but given probation in lieu of jail time. What I think most often happens is that someone who is morally deficient cannot go even a year without violating some of the bond situations (no drinking, no getting any other charges, not doing court-mandated community service, not missing any probation meetings, etc etc). If/when they do violate probation, the charge and trial is for violating bond, not the original offense, and is pretty straightforward: did you or did you not drink, miss a probation officer meeting. get arrested again, etc). Easy to prove, and then they get the original sentence without revisiting the original offense. A plea deal requires admitting guilt or not contesting the charges so a bond violation is as good as an initial trial guilty verdict.

On the other hand, the VERY powerful and VERY rich do seem to get away with shit that would land you or I behind bars. But that's a topic for a different forum 😶
 
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I actually think a lot of people get away with a lot of shit.Wealthy& famous people probably get away with more for sure. When I was young, I got absolutely smoked by a drunk driver who ran a stop sign when I had no stop sign. the woman was well known to police and was on drugs.Her boyfriend got out of her car and came over to the police car i was sitting in and started beating on the windows.This woman had no license and no insurance.So me as a broke, recent college graduate had to take the hit on my insurance for getting my ancient car fixed. not to mention, I had the shit scared out of me because I was young, and in a vulnerable position. I was not even allowed to go to court. It was just a plea deal for her when she should have at least had to face me in court. And even though I would have had to take off work and she wouldn't have, because, of course, she didn't have a job, I would have gladly done that to see her have real consequences for her continued destruction of people and vehicles. Later on that year, I got a speeding ticket in the same area, and I was insensed to learn that I had to pay a victim's crime fee. i explained to them that I was a victim of crime in their city and got absolutely no compensation from this fund.
 
HSanders said:
I get the whole beef with rich celebrities getting away with stuff, but the fact of the matter is if you can afford to drink, you can afford to be responsible about it. And you can afford to take a taxi home or get a ride. And if you can't, you shouldn't be drinking a lot when you're out.
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I have been in the insurance business for a good number of years. A person's troubles for driving under the influence don't end with the fine and/or suspension by the legal system.
There is another shoe to drop. Just about every standard insurance company will not renew a driver with an OUI. The cost of replacement coverage is sky high and it will go on for 3 to 5 years.
And if the person makes their living driving, it's worse. Many times I had to go to a commercial customer tell them that they had to fire an employee or face a huge premium increase. Usually it's the employee that gets the axe.
 
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Zero chance of conviction based on that stop. He still might not want to go to trial, because juries can be unpredictable and might have a someone who is charismatic and hates wealth/celebrities.

But any defense attorney is going to make hay with that body cam footage, never mind all the bits and pieces that have to fit together just right to not end up with key evidence getting tossed.

I think he came off as a little weird because he was assuming she knew who he was, didn't want to say anything that could be seen as "do you know who I am," but she didn't seem to recognize him. So the whole interaction came off as unglued, with him cracking jokes that you get if you know who he is, like the head injury thing.
 
Flagg the Wanderer said:
Zero chance of conviction based on that stop. He still might not want to go to trial, because juries can be unpredictable and might have a someone who is charismatic and hates wealth/celebrities.

But any defense attorney is going to make hay with that body cam footage, never mind all the bits and pieces that have to fit together just right to not end up with key evidence getting tossed.

I think he came off as a little weird because he was assuming she knew who he was, didn't want to say anything that could be seen as "do you know who I am," but she didn't seem to recognize him. So the whole interaction came off as unglued, with him cracking jokes that you get if you know who he is, like the head injury thing.
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That's the famous 'do you know who I am?' quote. We've seen it many times with athletes and celebrities who get sentenced to jail and serve minimal time in a office or protective custody . Then get released
 
king of kings said:
That's the famous 'do you know who I am?' quote. We've seen it many times with athletes and celebrities who get sentenced to jail and serve minimal time in a office or protective custody . Then get released
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He didn't do that, though. I think he mistakenly assumed that she knew who he was, and was being kind of self-deprecating and making in-jokes that come off as super awkward.
 
I forgot that Romo's contract was $180 million for 10 years when he signed in 2020. It seems an insane price to pay. CBS is in turmoil about this, according to reports and has put Romo on leave as more info comes out. Video of an open alcohol container in the car contradicts his claim that he had no booze on him. He's still due to get $72M, though, from CBS!

JJ Watt has been bumped up as Nantz's right-hand man.
 
HSanders said:
@spacecrime
I actually think a lot of people get away with a lot of shit.Wealthy& famous people probably get away with more for sure. When I was young, I got absolutely smoked by a drunk driver who ran a stop sign when I had no stop sign. the woman was well known to police and was on drugs.Her boyfriend got out of her car and came over to the police car i was sitting in and started beating on the windows.This woman had no license and no insurance.So me as a broke, recent college graduate had to take the hit on my insurance for getting my ancient car fixed. not to mention, I had the shit scared out of me because I was young, and in a vulnerable position. I was not even allowed to go to court. It was just a plea deal for her when she should have at least had to face me in court. And even though I would have had to take off work and she wouldn't have, because, of course, she didn't have a job, I would have gladly done that to see her have real consequences for her continued destruction of people and vehicles. Later on that year, I got a speeding ticket in the same area, and I was insensed to learn that I had to pay a victim's crime fee. i explained to them that I was a victim of crime in their city and got absolutely no compensation from this fund.
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That truly sucks. One of the things my wife and I have in common is an over-developed sense of fairness, and my spidey fairness sense is our-raged. This it patently unfair. You weren't treated right.

Also, that is a part of plea deals I had never considered.
 
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