Former Bengals linebacker Odell Thurman has been arrested and in custody of the Monticello Police Department in Georgia. He is is accused of breaking a man's jaw at an Ohio waterpark in May. Thurman is awaiting extradition hearing to send him to Erie County police.
Word is that the fight was over a place in line. It isn't clear if Thurman jumped the line or the 19-year old man. Either way, it doesn't look good for Thurman, who just served a two-year suspension by the NFL and is on another, indefinite, one.
The article does have some very interesting news. According to MyFoxCleveland.com, Thurman was also picked up for stealing his brother's car and driving drunk this past May. He got caught up with the DUI, but his brother didn't charge him with stealing his car.
That helps solve the case of why the Bengals mysteriously dumped Thurman this past May. Thurman was mourning his grandmother's passing (who he was close to) in Monticello, yet the team released him. It was thought that the team had no real reason to cut him, but Thurman's agent went on Cincinnati radio saying nice things about the team and unwilling to file a grievance ... leaving many to wonder if both sides were hiding an "incident".
Apparently, they were.
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7-19-2008 @ 7:02PM
B.O is O.B said...
WELL THERE YOU GO NOW WE KNOW ! BURP
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7-19-2008 @ 7:11PM
B.O is O.B said...
burp!
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7-20-2008 @ 12:49AM
George B Vieto said...
Odell Thurman is in one real hot pickle for the water park incident. I see him spending some time in the big house for a while.
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7-20-2008 @ 4:40AM
Lex said...
As a Yale graduate, future ( former...) President makes a stupid personal choice in office ( sex scandal), so it shows even one of the highest offices can still be stupid. This young man may have been physically talented in one sport, but appears to have little emotional maturity, or control at all, in his daily life choices. Society gives you many chances to stop, change your ways, outlook and actions... This guy is running out of time. He needs to forget football, he blew that ...and try to figure out how he is going to contribute to society, change himself. Any questions as to if he graduated from his school at the top of his classes, academically ?
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7-21-2008 @ 2:18AM
JG said...
The only way this guy will contibute to society is if we pack him up and send him to Iraq.
That or give him a pretty orange suit with a trash bag and have him walk up and down the highway.
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