Former Cowboys QB Carter arrested

[Taco]

Former Cowboys QB Carter arrested

IRVING, Texas (AP) - Former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Quincy Carter was arrested Friday on marijuana possession charges at the home of a woman who called police saying Carter had been "throwing things around."

Carter was booked in lieu of $500 bond and remained in the city jail Friday afternoon, Irving police spokesman David Tull said.
Carter was released by the Cowboys in 2004 amid numerous media reports that he failed a drug test. He was placed in the NFL's substance-abuse program and was later placed in rehab while with the New York Jets.

Tull said a woman called police around 5:30 a.m. and said Carter was being disruptive. Police arrested Carter after finding him in possession of less than two ounces of marijuana, Tull said.

Carter, a second-round draft choice by the Cowboys in 2001, started all 31 games in which he played for Dallas, including 17 in 2004

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/6276564


:smokin :hat :smokin

[Vinnie_Johnson]

Sad to see that someone who had so much pissed it all away.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

Somehow, Quincy keeping a couple of joints rolled in a Sprite can doesn't quite equate to Nate Newton running 500 kilos or Michael Irvin doing blow off the breasts of $1,000/night escorts.

[Vinnie_Johnson]

Somehow, Quincy keeping a couple of joints rolled in a Sprite can doesn't quite equate to Nate Newton running 500 kilos or Michael Irvin doing blow off the breasts of $1,000/night escorts.

Irvin was too much when he showed up to court with a bunch of pizzas for the press and rollin in the fur coat with the go to hell sun glasses. :fro

[FromWayDowntown]

Randy Galloway apparently paid the bond to get Q out of the slam.

[leemajors]

damn cocaine carter arrested for weed.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

Randy Galloway apparently paid the bond to get Q out of the slam.

Yeah, I've got my own questions about that.

[FromWayDowntown]

Yeah, I've got my own questions about that.

He apparently said something about it being the Christmas season, thinking that it was a sad thing that Quincy Carter couldn't even afford to put up a $500 bond at this point.

It's a curious decision on Galloway's part, but it appears that it came from the right place, I guess.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

He apparently said something about it being the Christmas season, thinking that it was a sad thing that Quincy Carter couldn't even afford to put up a $500 bond at this point.

It's a curious decision on Galloway's part, but it appears that it came from the right place, I guess.

I'd tend to agree, it just opens up a perception of a conflict of interest (even with Q being a private citizen) and I'm wondering if it's treading towards unethical as far as a journalist goes (particually with Galloway announcing it publically - although I guess that goes to disclosure).

[Vinnie_Johnson]

I'd tend to agree, it just opens up a perception of a conflict of interest (even with Q being a private citizen) and I'm wondering if it's treading towards unethical as far as a journalist goes (particually with Galloway announcing it publically - although I guess that goes to disclosure).

Good for Gallaway Carter and him are friends. Carter needs help he is going to wind up dead or in jail if not.

[FromWayDowntown]

I'd tend to agree, it just opens up a perception of a conflict of interest (even with Q being a private citizen) and I'm wondering if it's treading towards unethical as far as a journalist goes (particually with Galloway announcing it publically - although I guess that goes to disclosure).

As I read Galloway's comments, it's not a matter of friendship or patronage -- he seems to think that he's taken his fair share of liberties and shots at Quincy Carter. Given that Q is apparently so destitute to go along with his troubles, I can understand Galloway feeling like there's a right thing to and that is to lend some aid to someone that he's ridiculed for years about things that are, in the large scope of things, basically frivolous.

I'm less concerned with journalistic ethics here and more taken by the human side of the story, though I think there's a commentary embedded in the story about how we sometimes take things ridiculously out of their real contexts. Something like that. I've apparently lost my ability to express myself.

Must be this Laker comeback. . . .