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In June, Bears linebacker Lance Briggs will have to play a different kind of defense in a court of law.
According to Michael Sneed of the Chicago Sun-Times, Briggs is required to appear before a judge on June 19 to explain why Briggs left the state without the judge’s permission.
Briggs’ travel restrictions are a result of the one-year probation arising from his guilty plea to fleeing the scene of an accident after he crashed his Lamborghini in 2007. Briggs later called police and reported the car to be stolen.
In addition to probation, Briggs was ordered to perform 120 hours of community service. To date, he has performed a grand total of, let’s see, two. The judge wants to know on June 19 how Briggs plans to fulfill his obligation.
At his current rate, it will take about thirty years.
April 24th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Hell I just had someone lie and say I did my community service at this place called Croccett Park in VA and I got off real nice. He should just go to a park and hang out. That’s about 15 days with an 8 hour schedule of work/slackin’ off. Hey, what do you know, that’s a little more than two weeks of actual work… real life work. I do 52 in a year and Briggs can’t do two.
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April 24th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
hey now, the off-season is very busy for nfl players. i’m not surprised he has only been able to squeeze in 2 hours. I’m sure he’ll make it up in the fall when he doesn’t have much else going on.
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April 24th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
so much for doing the right thing and confessing it wasnt stolen, etc. trying to turd out of it anyway.
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April 24th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Hate to say it, but I sure wish the Skins bit on this guy when we had the chance.
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April 24th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
We don’t have all the facts but how hard is it not to leave the state? I’m sure there are plenty of fun things to do in Illinois other than getting drunk, crashing bright orange Lamborghinies, and running away.
I also take exception to him only having completed two hours of community service. Back in college, I knew people who did 75+ hours in a single semester and still managed top grades.
For a person like Briggs who had to work so hard to get where he his today, its perplexing that he can’t volunteer a few hours here and there over the course of a year and avoid being arrested the rest of the time.
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April 24th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
You know as a Bears fan this thing with Briggs is getting old, he didn’t get much consideration in the open market because of this kind of thing. Hey Briggs DO YOUR TIME you arrogant premodona!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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April 24th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
I think he’s postponing his community service until January. He won’t have to worry about the Bears in playoffs conflicting with his schedule.
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April 24th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
Instead of expecting overworked, tax-payer funded, probation officers to do their jobs, the league should establish a probation office of its own.
After all, with the growing number of criminals that play in the NFL, it makes sense that the NFL make sure the players they depend on for good TV ratings are not spending any more time in jail than is necessary.
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April 24th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Butch, the problem with waiting until the fall is that he only has a couple more months to complete it. Which is why the judge wants to see him, in addition to skipping town.
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April 24th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Maybe jim brown can drag pac up there and they can all do “life skills rehab” and community service together.
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April 24th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Maybe the 49′ers could hypothetically vouch for his community service time.
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April 24th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Man, what a douche bag this guy is turning out to be. We’ve got some promising talent waiting to get a shot at that position. We should have given them a shot and focused that money on our o-line. Get him a damn bus pass
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April 24th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
That’s what you get for skipping voluntary workouts Lance! The judge reads the sports page. How smart is it to bring attention to yourself while knowingly violating probation? Mercy, and I thought Tank Johnson was stupid.
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April 25th, 2008 at 4:14 am
thank God the Niners didn’t end up with this turd
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