According to the St. Petersburg Times, which is much like the New York Times but better, Gator fans hounded a towing company owner after Florida safety and team captain Tony Joiner pulled a Homer Simpson and tried taking his girlfriend’s car out of the man’s towing lot last week. An employee called the police and Joiner was arrested.
Although he maintained from the very beginning he had no intention of pressing charges against Florida safety Tony Joiner, hundreds of Gator fans apparently still felt the need to verbally harass and threaten the man who owns the property where Watson’s Towing stores its towed cars.
Stan Forron said Saturday he has received more than 200 calls from fans enraged about Joiner’s arrest.
The Florida senior was arrested around 5 a.m. Tuesday morning after Watson’s Towing employees called police and said Joiner was trying to steal his girlfriend’s car out of the towing lot without paying the $76 towing bill.
Apparently more than a dozen of the calls were direct death threats, including a promise by one Einstein to “shoot Forron the next time he saw him”.
So, only 12 out of 200 calls these were death threats? What the hell did the others say? If you’re going to be a white trash redneck and harass a small business owner over a local athlete, you might as well go all the way and threaten to kill them.
Because, as my dad always taught me, a threat without a death threat isn’t really a threat at all. Or maybe it was the monkey who lives in my closet who taught me that. At any rate, I can’t write any more about this. All that paint thinner isn’t going to drink itself.
