ThreeStrikesandOut

If things keep going the way they are, by the time Mike Vick gets released from the pokie, he may have to borrow some money from Marcus; because that money that the judge said that he could keep is rapidly being circulated in other directions, to other people.

According to the AJC, Vick has now been ordered to pay out $1.1 million to Wachovia Bank to pay back a defaulted loan on a liquor shop and a restaurant.

A summary judgment in favor of Wachovia against Vick was granted in the amount of $1,117,908.85. The figure represents the initial principal balance outstanding ($937,907.61), interest accrued as of Dec. 4, 2007 ($14,596.97), additional interest accruing from Dec. 4, 2007 to May 13, 2008 ($32,507.51 – 161 days at $201.91 per day), outstanding fees ($305.83), overdrawn accounts ($34,064.72) and attorneys fees ($98,526.21). Further interest could be accrued.

Remember that this judgment comes on the heels of Vick being ordered to pay out 2.5 million to the Royal Bank of Canada.

Lets see…2.5+1.1=3.6; add a bunch of zeros equals about 3.6 million dollars, to be added to lost pay, lost endorsements, and lost merchandise sales. Damn, Vick couldn’t have gotten rid of any more money if he’d blown up Uncle Scrooge’s vault.

I’m not sure that Vick climbed high enough to fall this far. I’m still as anti-Vick as I have been, but if he keeps falling he’s going to pass up Wil E. Coyote, Alice, and the dollar on his way down. If I was Vick, when I got out of prison, I’d stay as far away from animals as I could. I wouldn’t even watch Lassie. And I’d hit the first mf’r that suggests watching Turner and Hooch.

No jokes, something serious.  There is a great article on Yahoo about what has happened to some of the dogs that were seized in the raid of Mike Vick’s Bad News Kennels.  It’s nice to know that some of the dogs are getting second chances to live a good life and haven’t been destroyed.  To read the complete article click here. 

Okay, here we go.  According to an article on Yahoo-Sports, Mike Vick will be applying to a rehabilitation program that could have Vick out of prison by the end of 08 and back into the NFL by 2009.  According to Yahoo:

Under the program, Vick could be released after serving only 12 months of the 23-month sentence Vick was given Dec. 10 in Richmond, Va. It’s unclear exactly when Vick would be released because it’s unclear whether the 12-month term starts from when he voluntarily began serving his prison term in November or whether it starts from when he enters Leavenworth.

So let me get this straight, Vick has been in prison for about as long a I’ve been awake today and there is already talk about a shorter sentence?  If it was further into Vick’s sentence the talk of a shorter sentence would be perfectly acceptable.  If Vick shows remorse and good behavior in prison, he should have the same opportunity for a shorter sentence as anyone. 

The thing about it is the program is a drug rehabilitation program.  Mike Vick is not in prison for drug use, he’s in prison for dog-fighting.  There has been no suggestion by anyone that drugs had anything to do with Vick’s dog-fighting and dog-killing escapades, and there’s no reason right now that he should get time off for a program that has nothing to do with his crime. 

While there were many who were surprised by the length of Vick’s sentence, there will not be as many people surprised if Vick does get out early.  We have come to expect that celebrities will be treated different than everyone else, and Vick will just be another in a long line of celebrities who had upper-class money, but low-class morals who gets off because we’d rather see them in movies, on television, or on the football field on Sundays.

Yeah this was a tough one in determining who the biggest idiot of 2007 was. Have fun in prison dogkiller.