KU Basketball Player Charged With Battery For Blasting BBs
The gold medal goes to TSAO for most b’s ever in a post headline.
Kansas basketball player Markieff Morris will be going to court for shooting off his bb gun.
A 47-year-old woman from Mequon, Wis., was shot in the arm with a plastic BB in the courtyard of the building, police said in a report. She received minor injuries.
Morris was found in a nearby building, where he admitted to shooting the BB from the window of his residence at Jayhawker Towers, police said.
Officers seized a 3-foot-long black Airsoft rifle, valued at $100, and a medium-sized plastic bag of BBs, a police report states.
Well I was going to rip the hell out of this kid, but I sat down and examined my list of misbehaving college athletes and I realized that this offense doesn’t quite measure up to stealing a dead girls credit cards, or masturbating in the school library; and heaven knows that it doesn’t equal running your own crackhouse. Plus, he owned up to everybody that he was doing it, it wasn’t a real gun, and nobody got hurt. He owes the woman an apology, and that should be about it.
Well, maybe, until you take this into consideration:
According to a report from the KU Public Safety Office, Morris was suspected of using alcohol.
That opens up a whole ‘nother can o’ worms, as an underage kid, a couple of bottles of booze, and an air pistol is just a recipe for something bad to happen. He got lucky that he just hit someone in the arm, as a bruised arm is a little easier to recover from than a shot to the face (insert own joke here). Anyways, it’s still nothing to over-react to, unless this is just the beginning of Morris acting like a knucklehead. But, I’ll reserve judgment until he’s caught with real weapons or does something a little less A Christmas Story-esque. Chalk this one up to boys being dummies, give him a fitting punishment, and move along.
And remember, Morris; there’s a reason Santa Claus doesn’t bring those guns to kids anymore.
It’s because you’ll shoot an eye out, kid.
