HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I'm not a sports fan but this is hysterical and even though I'm a Tallahasseean I can't stand Seminoles fans.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Suspended Florida State quarterback Wyatt Sexton was doused by pepper spray and taken to a hospital by police after he was found lying in the street and identifying himself as God.
Sexton was hospitalized Monday night. A school official said Tuesday he was still under medical care at an undisclosed location. [EDIT: He's at the Tallahasse Memorial Hospital Behavioural Center, a psychiatric facility.] Sexton had not been charged with any crime.
Florida State assistant athletic director Rob Wilson said Sexton was suspended from the team two weeks ago because of a previously undisclosed violation of team rules. He declined to elaborate, and said this incident appeared to be unrelated.
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An incident report by Tallahassee police officer Zachary Lyne said he was called to a residential neighborhood about reports of a man doing push-ups in the street and jumping on a car.
Lyne said he found Sexton in the middle of the road wearing only a wet pair of shorts. The officer asked Sexton several times to identify himself, and eventually he said he was God.
Sexton later got on his hands and knees, yelled obscenities at the officer and stared at him. He was doused with pepper spray and handcuffed, and identified himself as Sexton.
Police said Sexton "appeared to be under the influence of some unknown narcotic or alcohol." Hospital officials said they didn't have any information on him.
Once at the hospital, Sexton continued to say he was God and that he didn't know why he was in the hospital, Lyne wrote.
Police said Sexton's roommates told them he had been at a Dave Matthews Band concert in Tennessee with them earlier Monday. They said he had been stressed out over trying to win the starting quarterback job.
― Ian Riese-Moraine: exposing ambitious careerists as charlatans since 1986. (East, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)
Florida State Quarterback Found at DMB Concert, Admitted to Psychiatric Unit.
― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)
Yeah, that's what it probably should be, but this just makes it even more glorious! xpost
― Ian Riese-Moraine: exposing ambitious careerists as charlatans since 1986. (East, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)
this reminds me of a story that was told to me when i was a college intern. some player on USC's football team during the late 80s/early 90s had smoked some dust at a party -- he ended up running around the USC campus -- bare-ass naked except for a garbage can lid as a shield, and was screaming "behold! i am the trojan warrior!" to passers-by.
dunno if it's a true story -- i hope that it is.
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)
Anyone else remember the part in Friday where Chris Tucker smoked the angel dust that those mexican dudes gave him? Because it sounds familiar, hah.
― Alan Conceicao (Alan Conceicao), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)
Florida State assistant athletic director Rob Wilson said Sexton was suspended from the team two weeks ago because of a previously undisclosed violation of team rules = he actually is God, and was using this as an unfair advantage.
(pls insert joke about Hail Mary pass kthx)
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 09:59 (twenty years ago)