Chedda Plax revisited!

From time to time I will be doing Blasts from the past,previous blogs dealing with issues that are still pertinent today. So with the NFL in a lockout and Plaxico Buress released from prison. I bring back one of my very first Blogs from 2009 "Chedda Plax".

Okay excuse me for wondering what the hell is going on in this world!!! My beloved Giants released their Super Bowl winning WR Cheddar Plaxico Burress, after he was indicted on weapons possession charges. Chedda Plax was subsequently sentenced to 2 years in prison. That’s right, 2 years for shooting himself in the leg with an unregistered handgun, and for attempting to conceal it in sweatpants... sweatpants... really? The point I’m trying to make is that there have been very disparate sentences in some of these cases. For instance Buffalo Bills RB Marshawn Lynch was sentenced to community service and probationhttp://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3955441 for misdemeanor gun possession after he was arrested on Feb. 11 after suburban Culver City , Calif. , police investigated a parked car without license plates and smelled marijuana when the driver rolled down the window. Lynch was in the car with another man. Officers searched the car and found a 9mm semiautomatic handgun inside a backpack in the trunk. Prosecutors said the backpack contained other items belonging to Lynch. Yet Lynch received probation.


So my question is why did Chedda Plax get the time he got, when he only hurt himself? I mean you look at Donte Stallworth http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1131879.html who killed a man while driving drunk and high. Okay read that sentence again “He killed a man while driving drunk and high in his Bentley!!!!” He was sentenced to 30 days in jail…for killing someone!!!!! He must also perform 1,000 hours of community service and can never drive again. Okay when you drive a Bentley you can probably afford a driver, I’m just saying. My point is that justice can always be swayed, depending on who feels offended. Mayor Bloomberg came out after Chedda Plax’s arrest and said "It would be an outrage if we don't prosecute to the fullest extent of the law." Really… that’s how we are going to go after an athlete who never had a criminal record? I’m not saying Chedda Plax should not have been punished, by all means he should have been. Where do you draw the line? Is it really justice to sentence a man who shot himself to two years in prison, while sentencing another man to 30 days in jail for killing someone while driving drunk and high? I know laws and statues are different state to state but this disparity does not make any sense at all. Is it because the man Donte Stallworth killed was named Mario Reyes and could have been an immigrant? Now some say that Stallworth was being a stand up guy staying there and taking responsibility for his actions. That’s true, but the problem with this line of thinking is that, you are giving people credit for doing what they are supposed to do.


Chris Rock had a joke one time where he said “N*gga’s always want credit for things they are supposed to do” Like the guy who says I ain’t ever been to jail, you ain’t supposed to you low expectation having…” The point I’m trying to make, is that yeah Chedda Plax tried to hide the gun and acted like a complete fool the moment he shot himself and tried to cover the incident up and yeah Donte Stallworth called the police after he killed a man, and he cooperated with the police from the onset, as he should have. None of that negates the fact that he was driving while drunk and with weed in his system. Was he being a stand up guy then? Was he being responsible then? The answer is NO!! What we’ve learned from this incident, is Chedda Plax should have just gone clubbing in Miami with a dime bag and some Patron. He could have killed a Cuban immigrant been out of jail and catching passes from Eli in time for the playoffs