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Post by Krimzon on Sept 8, 2011 15:14:03 GMT -5
The payoff was not worth the wait. The "Hardy's Legal Issues" storyline sucked! Fire Russo.
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Altabane
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Post by Altabane on Sept 8, 2011 15:20:38 GMT -5
The payoff was not worth the wait. The "Hardy's Legal Issues" storyline sucked! Fire Russo. Dixie: I warned you not to say that, now Citten's fired. Happy?
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Post by The OP on Sept 8, 2011 15:34:26 GMT -5
I'm not even too much of a Jeff Hardy fan, but I'm a little confused about why some people seem like they wanted him to get some horrible sentence. And for the person who was confused, there is a difference between jail and prison.
Don't get me wrong here, he's very lucky that he won't be going to prison. That said, it seems to me like the punishment fits the crime. He pays a fine, gets to spend some time in jail to think about what he's done, and he'll have to be in rehab and on probation, which sucks (in the sense that it's no fun, it might be good for him though). I don't exactly know what he did, but reading between the lines it seems like he got himself and maybe some of his friends some drugs that were sent to him by someone else (a dealer or friend). That's totally illegal, obviously, but I don't think they were planning to pass out drugged Halloween candy or anything. Personally, I think this is enough of a punishment.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2011 15:35:59 GMT -5
I have to second The OP, if he manages to stay strong and battles his addictions well enough to live a clean lifestyle I'll be happy.
I may not be the biggest fan of Jeff as a wrestler but he's a human being who's never done anything too atrocious.
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Post by Widow's Peak on Sept 8, 2011 15:41:50 GMT -5
A little more info on what least to his arrest: Assistant District Attorney Warren McSweeney said the raid came after employees at a Fayetteville FedEx distribution center called police about a suspicious package. The package was addressed to Hardy from a fan in Florida. It contained a Maxwell House coffee can filled with 262 prescription hydrocodone pain killers.
Police resealed the package and had the pills delivered to Hardy at his home. When he accepted the package, Moore County sheriff's deputies raided the house and found other drugs, as well.
Hardy's lawyer, James Van Camp of Pinehurst, said Hardy got involved with the pills to cope with the pain and damage to his body that he endured as a professional wrestler.
fayobserver.com/articles/2011/09/08/1121382?sac=HomeSo, yeah. he's lucky he had a good lawyer (although not as good as Kurt Angle's lawyer ). The one positive I can take from this is that he must remain in a drug treatment program, which to me says that he's been in one for a while. Addicts don't have a good track record, but all you can do is hope that Jeff will be one of the exceptions.
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Post by Talent Name on Sept 8, 2011 15:48:26 GMT -5
Well at least he didn't drown fording the river but maybe the expansion pack the Matt Hardy Trail may have a few more scenarios just hope he stays clean though
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Post by The OP on Sept 8, 2011 15:48:49 GMT -5
I know several people personally who have gotten mixed up with those exact same drugs and managed to get off them, so it can be done. The thing to do is not look at it as something that can't be beaten, and even if you fail for a while you don't give up.
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Post by Back to being Cenanuff on Sept 8, 2011 15:59:18 GMT -5
Pleads guilty to possession with intent, and only gets 10 days and $100k lighter, and has to keep his nose clean the better part of the next 3 years.
Man, I wish I was famous.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2011 16:04:05 GMT -5
Yeah if Jeff wasn't famous he might have gotten worse. I'm assuming he had enough coin to get a good lawyer, and for his sake he did good to get as little as he did. Could have been a lot worse.
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Post by Big Daddy Bad Booking on Sept 8, 2011 16:14:25 GMT -5
You know a family is messed up when "pleads guilty" is a highlight of their week. I hope the Hardys clean up their respective acts soon.
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Post by babyfootball on Sept 8, 2011 16:16:57 GMT -5
Maybe I'm just poor, but $100,000 is a lot of money to pay in fines. I'm sure he's earned some serious coin in his career, so maybe it's more like what a $2000 fine was to me last year, but still... the 10 days in jail, no big deal, the 30 months of probation, as long as he can stay out of trouble he'll be fine... but that's a LOT of money. Just sayin', sure he got off "easy" but he didn't get off THAT easy...
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Post by Ryushinku on Sept 8, 2011 16:18:02 GMT -5
That'll learn him!
He'd better stay on the straight and narrow now, or he might have to do 15 days next time.
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Post by rapidfire187 on Sept 8, 2011 16:18:11 GMT -5
I know several people personally who have gotten mixed up with those exact same drugs and managed to get off them, so it can be done. The thing to do is not look at it as something that can't be beaten, and even if you fail for a while you don't give up. One of my best friends has recently kicked a painkiller addiction. Granted, he did it with the assistance of Methadone, but that's what it's for. Now he just smokes that herbal incense stuff that does the same thing as pot but isn't illegal. Dude went from being a drug dealer to being the manager of a local business store in the span of like 3 months. It sounds like Jeff being on probation will be enough to clean him up because he'll be forced to take urine tests and will face jail time if he fails one. But that's only the case if his tests are random. The same friend that I mentioned above was on intense probation (meaning he had to take urine tests every Friday), but he still took painkillers but only on the weekends. He knew that by the time Friday rolled around it would be out of his system again. I HOPE Jeff doesn't try to beat the system that way.
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Sept 8, 2011 16:19:41 GMT -5
Disgusting
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Post by babyfootball on Sept 8, 2011 16:36:48 GMT -5
I know several people personally who have gotten mixed up with those exact same drugs and managed to get off them, so it can be done. The thing to do is not look at it as something that can't be beaten, and even if you fail for a while you don't give up. One of my best friends has recently kicked a painkiller addiction. Granted, he did it with the assistance of Methadone, but that's what it's for. Now he just smokes that herbal incense stuff that does the same thing as pot but isn't illegal. Dude went from being a drug dealer to being the manager of a local business store in the span of like 3 months. It sounds like Jeff being on probation will be enough to clean him up because he'll be forced to take urine tests and will face jail time if he fails one. But that's only the case if his tests are random. The same friend that I mentioned above was on intense probation (meaning he had to take urine tests every Friday), but he still took painkillers but only on the weekends. He knew that by the time Friday rolled around it would be out of his system again. I HOPE Jeff doesn't try to beat the system that way. Yeah, I never saw the value in scheduled drug tests in that sense. Making them random is a much, much more effective way of making sure that somebody's on the straight and narrow for a long period of time than tests that are predetermined... much more difficult to use around. Also, and I don't mean to criticize your friend who I don't even know (and definitely don't intend to throw stones from my glass house), but I have to ask, how did the painkiller addiction start? Did he have an actual injury and/or condition and got hooked on them to ease his symptoms, or was it a strictly recreational thing? Does he smoke that fake weed to help him cope with any actual pain, or is just it a "catching a buzz" type thing? To tie that back to Jeff, obviously painkiller abuse is rampant in wrestling because of the injuries and pain associated with the lifestyle. Though it seems fairly obvious that a portion of his drug use could be classified as strictly recreational, I hope that, if he chooses to continue to wrestle (which certainly seems to be the case), he finds some sort of legal, healthier way to cope with his chronic pain (not just moving from pills and other drugs onto alcohol). I can't help but wonder if choosing to stay in the profession, while being the surest way that he can make a significant amount of money (which, again, given his hefty fine, it seems as though he'll need), might also be the surest guarantor that this is not the last time that we'll see "Jeff Hardy" and "drug addiction/problems" together. Not to totally hijack this thread, but there really, REALLY needs to be a sea change in the overall wrestling culture when it comes to drug abuse. Painkillers, when used as medicine and not recreationally, can be lifesavers for people dealing with chronic injuries. But, as we've seen far too often (with others whose fates were much worse than Jeff's court sentence), medical use can turn into abuse seemingly overnight. Addiction is a scary, nasty disease.
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Post by Apricots And A Pear Tree on Sept 8, 2011 16:45:04 GMT -5
A little more info on what least to his arrest: Assistant District Attorney Warren McSweeney said the raid came after employees at a Fayetteville FedEx distribution center called police about a suspicious package. The package was addressed to Hardy from a fan in Florida. It contained a Maxwell House coffee can filled with 262 prescription hydrocodone pain killers.
Police resealed the package and had the pills delivered to Hardy at his home. When he accepted the package, Moore County sheriff's deputies raided the house and found other drugs, as well.
Hardy's lawyer, James Van Camp of Pinehurst, said Hardy got involved with the pills to cope with the pain and damage to his body that he endured as a professional wrestler.
fayobserver.com/articles/2011/09/08/1121382?sac=HomeSo, yeah. he's lucky he had a good lawyer (although not as good as Kurt Angle's lawyer ). The one positive I can take from this is that he must remain in a drug treatment program, which to me says that he's been in one for a while. Addicts don't have a good track record, but all you can do is hope that Jeff will be one of the exceptions. A fan sent him the stuff?That's an odd thing to put on an Amazon wish list.
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Post by Renslayer on Sept 8, 2011 17:08:59 GMT -5
By any chance, is Hardy's lawyer this man:
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Post by Celgress on Sept 8, 2011 17:20:12 GMT -5
Dammit Flounder, spoilers! Well it's not as much a surprise as a Cena match. woo woo woo you know it.
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Post by Celgress on Sept 8, 2011 17:22:16 GMT -5
10 days in prison, a $100,000 fine, and 30 months probation. Two years for THAT??? "Yahoo! The system fails again!" indeed
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Post by Celgress on Sept 8, 2011 17:26:57 GMT -5
....I don't think he's a serious threat to anyone but himself.....I thought he was great as a heel in TNA and I look forward to seeing him back. this
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