Florida's Marcus Roberson Arrested For Underage Alcohol Possession In September, Four Loko Involved
by Andy Hutchins on Oct 19, 2011 11:49 AM EDT
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I feel better about Marcus Roberson's ability to live up to Janoris Jenkins' legacy now that I know that Roberson was cited for underage alcohol possession in September, according to a report by Rachel George in the Orlando Sentinel.
Roberson, 19, was arrested by the University Police Department on Sept. 14 in the parking lot of the Springs Complex, which are residence halls on campus. According to the notice to appear, Roberson had a bottle of Four Loko.
He was charged with possession of alcohol by a person under 21 years of age, a misdemeanor. Roberson is being represented by Huntley Johnson, a Gainesville attorney who frequently represents UF athletes. Johnson entered a plea of not guilty on Sept. 28. A pre-trial conference is scheduled for Nov. 7.
Allow me to translate that for you.
- Roberson was arrested for drinking in the parking lot of Springs on a Wednesday night.
- Roberson was drinking a Four Loko, which means he is probably not completely acculturated to drinking alcohol that isn't neon-colored as of yet.
- Roberson being repped by Huntley Johnson means that he's probably not going to face any serious punishment beyond what he's already likely dealt with from Will Muschamp.
- Alcohol possession is kind of minor, part one: Considering that Frankie "DUI With An Open Bottle of Crown Royal in My Car" Hammond was one of Florida's team captains for the Tennessee game (PDF) three days after Roberson's arrest, I don't think Roberson has to worry about his long-term future with Florida.
- Alcohol possession is kind of minor, part two: Matt Elam, twice arrested for underage alcohol possession, tweeted "Never make the same mistake twice. It shows a lack of character!" this morning.
So, yes, this is disappointing, in that I would think Florida's football players would know by now to either avoid alcohol while underage (some people do this!) or avoid cops while drinking alcohol while underage (many, MANY people do this). But as far as ramifications go? Roberson's probably already done with them in Muschamp's eyes, and the law won't be too harsh.
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What continues to amaze me, is that they keep getting caught. In my entire underage drinking career, which I’d bet large sums of money was at least ten-times greater than Roberson’s and Elam’s careers combined (and probably the entire football team), I was caught once.
But it wasn’t my fault. It was during a weekend of my freshman year of college. It was four of us at a beach. It was like 2am. In St. Augustine. And the only reason why we were caught, was because the speed limit on the road was 15mph.
Which was ridiculous because what freaking road has a speed limit of 15mph!?!?! What really pisses me off is that I was riding shot-gun and the chick who was driving asked me roughly four seconds before we saw the blue-lights, “What’s the speed limit?” and I replied with “Probably 45, so I would go about 35 to be safe.”
After we get pulled over, the cops search the four of us (why they asked if we had grenades is beyond me) and the car, they asked to see inside the truck. Which of course we had about 3/4ths of a case of beer left and we had to dump it out on the side of the road.
But we didn’t get into any trouble at all. Once the cops asked to see our ID’s and then our college ID’s and we got the speech about how “they were once 18-19 years old and in college” we were sent on our way.
No harm, no foul. Except for the wasted beer.
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No one will ever convince me
that there is a legitimate need to actually cite someone in that situation. These ticky-tack fines are more about fundraising and individual power trips than anything else.
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by car.full.of.midgets on Oct 19, 2011 12:29 PM EDT up reply actions
This as well.
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Yeah, I am kinda like that to. I am 25, so I have done my fair share of partying and smoking “weed”. I have partied anywhere and everywhere and the only time I was ever caught was when I got pulled over because my car at the time (Camaro) stood out, and a cop saw a 19 year old punk kid driving it, and pulled me over for no reason, found a dime bag, and took me downtown. Had I not said “what the fuck are you doing” I probably could have got out of that one. My friend and I were also once pulled over with each of us having an open container of alcohol in our possession and all the cop did was pour out our beers and send us on our way. We were both probably 17 or 18, too. Pretty cool cop, that one.
I’m wondering if when these football players have a run-in with the law they say “Do you know who I am”? or something along those lines. Because, damn, do our football players get arrested alot. They should probably stay home and play Super Nintendo, instead, because this shit is getting ridic.
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Yeah, you saying that probably didn’t do you any favors.
But yeah, I just don’t get it. The cops are probably on a little power trip (though being a cop in Gainseville, Florida probably shouldn’t be the top goal of a cop in the state of Florida) but these kids might not be helping themselves out either.
Some (not all mind you) of the funniest memories I have from college were getting like a bottle of Jack and some beers, getting everyone on the floor together or just with a group of people and playing cards, video games, watching football. In those situations, unless there is a murder, the cops aren’t going to show up, let alone care.
House parties as well. They might show up, see what is going on, and if everyone is cool and nobody is acting like an idiot, way more often than not, they’ll let everyone go. Minus the remaining alcohol of course.
I just don’t get it. I never walked down the street drinking alcohol, or stood outside in a public place drinking … I just don’t get it at all.
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I just don’t get it. I never walked down the street drinking alcohol, or stood outside in a public place drinking … I just don’t get it at all.
This exactly. And why do that? Are they trying to show off? Congratulations your drinking. WHOA!!
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They must be.
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When dealing wth police...
Do not answer any questions no matter how pleasant the cop is…even with “yes” or “no” or your own questions…never admit to any wrong doing…NEVER, EVER consent to a search of your person, property or vehicle no matter what the police say…
You have zero obligation to cooperate with any law enforcement officer…
Should you be accused of a crime…your cooperation, statements and consent will only make it that much harder for your attorney…
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by gatorhippy on Oct 19, 2011 1:25 PM EDT via mobile reply actions 1 recs
EXACTLY. That’s why its your right to be silent. Sit there, shut the hell up, and say nothing. The cops are NEVER your friend.
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I’ve got a cousin who is a cop in Orlando. Even though she graduated from FSU, I’ll say that I’ve got a cop friend.
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Lol, yeah I didn’t mean in that way. I meant…yeah, you know what i meant…
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I did.
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Having gone through law school and just become an attorney
I can tell you that’s good advice. Additionally, always be very polite and respectful. Respect the badge, if not the person. If the cop wants to make your life hard, he’ll probably do it anyway, but if you run off at the mouth even just a bit, it’s going to 1) personally piss him off, and 2) probably give him reasonable suspicion/probable cause, and that doesn’t lead anywhere good for you.
Yuh...
I’m glad you mentioned the “polite & respectful” part…especially when initialy approached…
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by gatorhippy on Oct 19, 2011 3:20 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Four Loko
The official drink of the Florida Gator Football team.
by ParadigmShift35 on Oct 19, 2011 1:45 PM EDT reply actions
Which is sad.
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In fairness...
…it’s kinda hard to field a punt when you’re all Four Loko’d up, so maybe that explains some things…
Ohhhh. They’ve been found out!
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I remember the good ol days of Four Loko
I drank it BEFORE they removed the caffeine. #hipsterboozehound
I think I tried it once. But I never was and never will be part of the “alcohol energy drink” crowd.
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I never wanted to drink it until word came that the FDA was going to ban it
Then suddenly I wanted it. So my roommate and I bought something like 16 cans of it and taste-tested all of them. This was on the night of the Auburn-Sakerlina SEC Title game. At 330 am I was in bed, wondering why I was wide awake, and remembered that there was a metric crapload of caffeine in those. I’d had 10 Loko, so that was that, I suppose.
That stuff sounds (and kind of looks) like a jacked up version of Boone’s Farm flavored drinks.
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I'm from the same era
We called Cisco liquid crack.
JaigerBombs are delicious…
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by gatorhippy on Oct 19, 2011 3:21 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
But … Irish Car Bombs are infinitely better.
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Well...of course they...
Guiness makes everything better…
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by gatorhippy on Oct 19, 2011 3:39 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
I’m not a big dark beer fan, but ICB’s are one of the few things in which it dark beer is key, that I’ll be alright.
I’ve ordered a glass of Guiness once (while on vacation in Toronto) and I didn’t even finish the glass. Flat Tire or other New Belgium stuff is alright.
Other than that, the fact that it looks and sometimes has the viscosity of oil, I’ll just get something else.
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Beer...
I stick wth Guiness or any of the traditional Belgian trappists or abbeys when I can get my hands on them these days when I drink beer…my palate has gotten to a point where trying to drink a Bud is like drinking water…and feels like it has the same affect on my BAC…
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by gatorhippy on Oct 19, 2011 3:55 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
I just can’t do that. I’ll go for an in-between beer like a Sam Adams, or something similar to that.
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Plus, dark beer seemingly has roughly a 75% chance of tasting burnt. Which can be the same with hard liquor as well, see: cheap brandy, cheap whiskey, and whatever the hell Fighting Cock bourbon is. Which I’m pretty sure is the single most disgusting bourbon on the planet.
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Fighting Cock?!? that is hilarious. That is what everyone should drink before the South Carolina game.
Speaking of bad beverages, check out the legend of Johnny 3 Legs
I acutally drank one of these in college.
Nice. Never heard of Johnny 3 Legs before. That sounds…fun.
Fighting Cock: It’s like a burning, headache, figures it is a cheap bourbon type of drink.
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That...
Sounds like you just need to diversify your pallette…
Darks and hop heavy beers definitely take time to get used to…they have such a different flavor and often texture…
Of course…you may simply just not like it and/or have no need/desire to develop that…
When I started on darks I started with Newcastle and immediately tried to jump in to Guiness as well…just like you…couldn’t even finish the Guiness and the creaminess made it taste flat to me…but I liked the Newcastle and largely stuck with that for years…
Then I became aquainted with an elderly irish gentleman that handled all the house brews for MacGuire’s…through 8 years of living in Pensacola that guy educated me and helped train my palette to really taste “what’s happening” in there…
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by gatorhippy on Oct 19, 2011 4:04 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions 1 recs
Newcastle is alright. I don’t know if you’re familiar or not with Taco Mac, but they have a very large selection of beers, you can make a beer list of completed beers, you get stuff the more you drink…etc., which I’ve been working on since 2005. I have just over 400 different beers on the list, with about 80 being dark beers.
I still can’t get used to them.
Though the single worst beer I’ve ever tried was the Fort Collins Z.
OH. MY. WAS. THAT. BEER. FREAKING. HORRIBLE.
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Rec for MacGuire's
That place is awesome. I haven’t visited P-cola in about 7 years, but when I find my way out there, I’ll be sure to eat at MacGuire’s again. Last time I was there, I was on tour with my old band. One of my bandmates’ parents treated the whole crew since we had a night off between playing Panama City and New Orleans. Don’t remember the name of it at the moment, but I had several pints of their ~12% winter seasonal brew. Vury, vury nice, especially considering it was in the upper 30’s outside.
I’ve been working my way through Dunedin Brewery’s offerings over the past couple months (I’d be making better progress if I didn’t have to drive back to Tampa afterward) and I’ve yet to have anything that disappointed me. Their N2 Irish Stout>>>>>>>>Guinness.
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by car.full.of.midgets on Oct 19, 2011 5:15 PM EDT up reply actions
I’ve spend some time in Pensacola the last two years (about 3 weeks total)…where is MacGuires at?
Granted I’ve mostly been in Gulf Breeze at Peg Leg Pete’s, Landsharks Bar, and other places like that…
But still, Gulf Breeze is what, two bridges away from Pensacola?
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Downtown....on Gregory...
You need to go to MacGuire’s…awesome food…great atmosphere…just pay REALLY good attention to where you’re going when you head to the bathroom…
Couple other places for you to check out in Pensacola…The Fish House (get the Grits-A-YaYa) downtown by the Port of P-Cola…Cactus Flower in East Hill (no alcohol served but you can bring your own wine/beer/margaritas and they’ll provide the glasses)…O-Zone Pizza located in the basement of the old hospital also in East Hill (amazing pizza and a full stocked bar with an amazing selection of beers)…
Gulf Breeze is over the first bridge…the second one (toll bridge) hits Santa Rosa Island/P-Cola Beach…Peg Leg’s is pretty good…I prefer it but my like Flounder’s bette…
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Typing fail...
I prefer PLP’s but my WIFE prefer’s Flounder’s…
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Fail...
But nice to see you try…
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Flounders is alright. I just had some beers there in early August as well as some blackend fish sandwich that wasn’t really any good. I’m still mad that Bull Feathers doesn’t exist any more though. That was my favorite place in Pensacola Beach.
I saw O-Zone Pizza, I think, but didn’t stop it. It sounds familiar though.
The only problem with Peg Leg Pete’s is that even on off-days, when there is nobody around, that place is somehow freaking packed. Even during the oil spill when nobody was anywhere (I saw like two other cars on the first big long bridge) and like two cars (on the $1 toll bridge) that were both leaving, and Peg Leg’s had a hour and a half wait.
But yeah, I’m going to have to check out MacGuire’s now. Thanks.
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Yeah...PLP can be a bit "touristy"...
Also on Mc-G’s…the wait can get a bit long late in the week & on weekends…
But it is well worth it…
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Will do.
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You will like McGuire's
There’s one in Destin too, if that’s more convenient. I probably shouldn’t say this, but be extra mindful if you happen to visit the men’s room.
Nah, I’m not really a “Destin” guy. Never been one of my panhandle spots to hit. And…whoa. Wow.
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Not sure what you're thinking...
But the men’s room thing is probably/maybe NOT what you’re thinking. It’s a practical joke that has to do with the washroom signage that has caught many ladies and gentlemen off-guard. (I just ruined it for you, sorry.)
I live east of Destin in southern Walton County. A little enclave on County Road 30A called Blue Mountain Beach. There’s not a lot here, so I often find myself in Destin, versus venturing east into PCB.
The McGuire’s is on US 98, at the northeast corner of the Destin Bridge. I bet you’d like it, but the original location in Pensacola is fine too.
by Dauntless12 on Oct 20, 2011 11:17 PM EDT up reply actions
Ohhhhhhhhhh okay.
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Yuh...
Right after ‘the turn of the century’ Mc-G’s had a Millenium Royal Stout that was brewed on the premises…It was amazing…small batch brew so thick and creamy it barely even had a head after it was poured…FlaGators would have HAED it…but I drank that $#!+ like it was water while it was available…I quite possibly notched more pints of it than anyone else in P-Cola and actually did drink the last four five pints of it…
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Arrgh...more typing fail...
“FlaGators would have HATED it…”
My fingers aren’t working so good…
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There’s a bar in Navarre Beach that has their own brews. I don’t know how to get there from SR 98/Gulf Breeze PKY, I only get to it from 399 through Santa Rosa (the beach road down there past the massive hotel complexes).
It is at the end of 399 (once your passed all the rental homes/vacation homes (to the right) from the public access where the road ends. I think. I’ve only gone there once, so I’m not exactly sure.
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Can’t remember the name f the place, but I know where you’re talking about…
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After reading all of this I now officially know that I am the only Gator that no longer consumes alcoholic beverages. :)
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Someone might want to capture you for study lol
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by car.full.of.midgets on Oct 20, 2011 9:37 AM EDT up reply actions
Haha.
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Small batch stuff is magical.
I’ve got a friend in SW Colorado who homebrews like a champ and sends me a 24 oz. bomber or two of her stuff from time to time. She’s got an espresso stout that’ll be ready around the end of the month. I can’t wait!
Had Cigar City’s Jose Marti Porter and Guava Grove Saison last night in bottles. I’d highly recommend either if you see them in stores out there. The Jose Marti might not be in your wheelhouse, FG, but Guava Grove is very comparable to Magic Hat #9 or something similar. I wouldn’t have identified the guava flavor if it wasn’t in the name because it’s subtle in the overall taste. Publix stocks them here in Tampa, but I’m not sure if that’s just because it’s locally brewed.
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by car.full.of.midgets on Oct 20, 2011 9:36 AM EDT up reply actions
Magic Hat #9 is good.
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It's one of my go-to beers,
especially in hot weather. I can’t drink the dark stuff if I’m outside in the summer.
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by car.full.of.midgets on Oct 20, 2011 10:04 AM EDT up reply actions
that's a lot of beer talk
I’ll just take a Bud Light though. Never want to be the guy at the party looking into the cooler with disapointment saying “is that all you got??!!!”
I like trying all sorts of things
especially since I only drink between one and three beers in a single sitting these days*, but I will never look down my nose at any beer, particularly so if someone else is supplying it.
*statement rendered invalid in the event of a Florida football loss or music festival
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by car.full.of.midgets on Oct 20, 2011 1:08 PM EDT up reply actions
Want!
I wonder if they’d be open to expanding into the Tampa market…
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by car.full.of.midgets on Oct 20, 2011 1:38 PM EDT up reply actions
Taco Mac is freaking fantastic. As I discussed above, I’ve spent a lot of money there.
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This is true.
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I still have some of it.
It is the worst thing I have ever tasted.
by Andy Hutchins on Oct 19, 2011 5:06 PM EDT up reply actions
He should have been cited for drinking the loko...lol
That stuff is liquid death….lmao
Isn’t that a song?
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Sick of ALL of it...
I don’t know which I am MORE sick of—the UFPD “Stalag-17”-overzealousness when it comes to students doing a bit of “after class socialization in the dorm parking lots”, or the endless bone-headed foolishness and selfish lack of even short-term discipline and consideration for their teammates on the part of our players…
Actually, I DO know: stupid and pathetic-in-its-own-way as the Campus Storm Troopers’ hard-on to bust people is, the behavior of the players is what we’re ALL sick of, the endless preventable-but-repeated-anyway offenses off-the-field long since having gotten as old and unacceptable as (and I believe connected TO) the endless stupid penalties ON-field during games.
This team is heartless, GUTLESS, rotten to and at the core. A large portion of these “5-Star Clowns” that the Meyer regime saddled us with the last couple of years need to either smarten up or move OUT—a process that our new Head Coach has begun and will need to accelerate in the weeks and months ahead.
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