And Because I Can't Resist...
Normally I wouldn't take quite so much pleasure in this, but because of the rash of mockery-laden emails I receive every time a Canadian team beats the Lightning, I'm making an exception. The Montreal Canadiens are in Tampa right now to play the Bolts. Apparently they got in some time early yesterday. And a couple of players allowed themselves enough time to start a ruckus.
A Montreal Canadiens player was arrested and charged with felony grand theft for — wait for it! — stealing a woman's purse at a night club!
I don't know what goes on in the City of Saints, but come on, purse-snatching? Really?!
February 12, 2008
Associated Press
TAMPA, Fla. — Ryan O'Byrne and Tom Kostopoulos joined their Montreal teammates for practice Monday, hours after being arrested outside a Tampa nightclub.
Police said O'Byrne, a 23-year-old rookie, was accused of stealing a woman's purse. Right wing Kostopoulos, 29, was charged with resisting an officer.
O'Byrne was charged with felony grand theft and released after posting $2,000 bail. Kostopoulos faces a misdemeanor count of resisting an officer without violence and was freed on $500 bail.
"You wish these things didn't happen, but once things happen, trying to go backwards isn't a possibility, so we move ahead," Canadiens general manager Bob Gainey said after practice at the St. Pete Times Forum, where Montreal faces the Tampa Bay Lightning on Tuesday.
I really want to hear the story behind this because you know it's a good one.
And for the record, my Bolts have won three of the last four games against Canadian clubs. (I'm trying to block out the 8-4 loss to Ottawa.)
8 comments:
See, this is what happens when you let Canadians this far south, They thaw out and go nuts, and we Americans have to suffer from the chaos that ensues :)
why are they stealing from americans? the canadian dollar is stronger.
Actually guys, this was a bad joke made to a rookie player and the girl never said that the rookie steel her purse and she refuse to make a plaint so basically there is no story here !
Canadians don't know how to drive either.....
ZINGER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
^^^sad but true
Why is a professional hockey player stealing money. I think he should get someone else to handle his money or the police should drug search him
I was at the bolts/habs game just after this happened. When the bolts scored, someone threw a purse onto the ice. A fan (not sure if it was the same one or not) had a sign that said "hey O'Byrne, I think you left your purse on the ice" They showed it on the jumbotron and it got a nice laugh.
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