Mudcat’s Car Strikes Again

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So starting to hear some rumblings that something is about to come out about another football culture arrest. A quick look at the ACC arrests from last night shows the following:

$50 bail, five charges: window tint, reckless driving, driving an unregistered vehicle, seatbelt violation, and no proof of insurance.

Let the culture narrative begin again. Sigh.

Quick editor note: little detail is out right now about this, so it could’ve been a traffic violation that resulted in all the rest, it could’ve been a lot of things. Whether “racing” was involved or not is not available at this time…let’s not rush to judgment on the young man yet.

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Update: so much for “let’s hear it out”.

According to the arrest report obtained by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the officer was monitoring traffic the entrance ramp to GA 10 Loop outer at College Station Road. The office states in the report that Harris’ vehicle was clocked at 106 miles per hour using department-issued radar. 

The arresting officer also stated that while the vehicle was being secured, the driver’s seatbelt was buckled without anyone in the seat, indicating it was behind his back while he was driving and not being worn across the chest and lap. (Per Dawgnation)

Dammit.

43 thoughts on “Mudcat’s Car Strikes Again”

    • Tomorrow at 7:30 in Lexington. It will be televised for those who cannot attend personally.

  4. I have watched in various moods the numerous traffic charges involving UGA athletes. I was personally involved in a dangerous situation last Saturday evening after the game and I do hope it was not UGA athletes. On Highway 78 west of Athens three high powered cars, a Mustang, a Camaro and a Charger, were racing each other and almost cause a very serious collision. It was scary as shit.

    • Failing to register a vehicle, not wearing a seatbelt, and the like, are stupid actions that warrant being pulled over and cited. Racing like you witnessed and the driving shenanigans that some of our players have participated in display a disregard for human life and have no business going on whatsoever. We will eventually see what Mr. Harris did and I hope it was not egregious. That being said, I’m at the end of my rope with the 90 mph bullshit I see much more than I used to and read about on the daily.

  5. According to Seth Emerson, he was going 106, passed 2 vehicles, unregistered car without plates. Ugh.

    • Jesus, I can’t for the life of me understand how this keeps happening. (I know, NIL $ and young men). It is clear Kirby is going way above and beyond to educate and punish. But it keeps happening.

  6. Chip Towers needs a moment. And a cigarette. It won’t matter if racing is involved or not he will act as if it is. I hope Kirby just stop answering his questions.

  7. I know we are expected to clutch our pearls about the fast driving etc but I just can’t. I wish they wouldnt do it but I remember when I was that age and did that sort of thing and worse. I’m not going to rewrite history in my mind and act all shocked and get the vapors about it. When you’re that age you think you’re bullet proof and going to live forever. I know I sure did.

    • 106 on College Station/the on-ramp to the loop is pretty bad. I would perhaps be more understanding if he were on I-16 (although the last time I was on it, it was filled with potheads driving slow in the left hand lane about 1 mph faster than the trucks in the right, making achieving that speed much more difficult than it used to be…..)

      • Yeah, I have zero sympathy anymore. There have been more than enough examples already. Start cutting kids loose and see if that won’t stop it.

        • Yeah, its not a culture narrative starting again….it literally hasn’t stopped. We are living up to our bad perception. I mean it really sucks, and it bothers me cause I was a stupid 18-22 year old. Actually probably until 26. I just got lucky so I dont know the answer.

    • Same here, but…
      With NIL and the players arguably being employees/ subcontractors? The AA could set a code of conduct, just like you or I would be informed of before we “joined the team” so to speak. The AA (or whomever is running the NIL/Booster/Collective) could demand that any entity providing vehicles to players have tracking capability using an organization provided system. We use Nextraq for our fleet and it works. Personal vehicles? If Junior has a hot car on his own, then gets convicted for 106 in a 45? Sorry, Bud. You knew the rules…
      The hard part? It don’t matter who it is. The rules apply to everyone. I’m all for it, actually.

    • You weren’t repping for the #1 football team in the country when you did it. Nor under a NIL $$ deal when you did it. Or had received numerous “educational” sessions about “speeding/traffic/automobile” situations when you did it. ITS TOTALLY DIFFERENT FROM WHEN WE DID IT!!!
      This is total disrespect for the system and the law. And it IS a cultural issue….just not a KIRBY cultural issue, feel me?

      • Yeah but you’re looking at it like a much older fella. There’s no way most of them are going to have that kind of perspective. Lots of reasons why. Age is part of it. As they say there’s a reason older men aren’t told to charge into machine gun fire. And part of it is, none of us knows what it’s like to just be that damn much better at football or anything high profile than everybody else in the world. And we dont know what it’s like for that to have been the case since early childhood.

        I’ll use an example from down here in my corner of the state. Zaden Walker, five star linebacker in the current recruiting class. It is so damn easy for him to dominate on a football field and it always has been. He doesn’t have to give a hundred percent because his sixty percent is so much better than everybody else’s one hundred. I talked to one of his coaches the other day and he said Zaden can be Nakobe Dean if he is able to truly understand how much effort he’s going to have to give once he gets to UGA. He has never had to because he’s just better than everybody he plays with and the great majority of those he plays against. None of us know what that’s like and how that shapes you.

        No when I was being young and reckless and stupid I didn’t have NIL or representation of an SEC school and wasn’t on the top college football team in the land. But I was a US Marine and there were consequences for my actions much more severe than your average young idiot. I acted the fool anyway. Because that’s what young guys full of testosterone do.

        Again, I’m not saying that what they’re doing is ok. I’m saying it’s not surprising and I’m not going to act like I can’t fathom how they could ever behave that way because I can.

          • Thanks, man. I didn’t include that for that reason. I always feel like I need a shower when mentioning it online. Just trying to make a point that despite consequences young guys do crazy things.

  8. As for me, I’m about sick of these young men endangering the lives and property of all those in their vicinity. I keep hearing, hey they’re young guys, whatcha gonna do? One crash at these speeds & the party is likely over for someone. Imagine a child in someone’s vehicle that’s rear ended at 100+ mph. No excuse at all for what continues to happen & it seems the only way to get their attention is dismissal. Nothing else has been effective.

  12. When I was in my late teens and early twenties I drove fast, drove drunk, did all sorts of stupid and reckless stuff. I’m not saying I think that’s cool or that I should have done it but I did do it. And so did most of my buddies and guys my age that I knew. I want them to stop. But when middle aged people get all up on their moral high horse about things they probably did themselves it always makes me roll my eyes. I want them to stop but I wasn’t any better at that age.

  13. Harris needs to be cut loose. Did nothing about the Devin Willock tragedy register with this kid? This isn’t some run-of-the-mill moving violation here. Furthermore, I’ve got family in proximity of where the infraction occurred. I’ve got a niece who drives that route daily – and nightly. What are the odds that Harris’ actions could have resulted in a tragedy to one of my family members? Remote. But not zero.

  14. I would hate to lose a player of Harris’s ability, but sometimes you have to bite the bullet. Sooner or later, Kirby is going to have to make an example out of someone who thinks they are “untouchable” to get the rest of the guy’s attention. If not, it’s not a matter of if, only when another Devin Willock type tragedy occurs.

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