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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

The Seattle Seahawks Are The New Cincinnati Bengals

posted by on May 13 at 15:15 PM

First Rocky Bernard gets arrested for domestic violence, and now there’s this:

Seahawks linebacker Lofa Tatupu was arrested Saturday for investigation of driving while intoxicated.

Tatupu was arrested in Kirkland at about 2:30 Saturday morning after an officer observed his car driving at what the officer estimated was in excess of 50 mph in a 35-mph zone.

Tatupu submitted to field-sobriety tests, but declined to take a portable Breathalyzer. He was arrested, handcuffed without incident and taken to the police station. His blood-alcohol concentration (BAC) was measured at 0.155 and 0.158 when it was measured after 4, nearly double the legal limit of 0.08.

Maybe we don’t need Chris Henry after all.

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1

Damnit... Lofa has long been my favorite Seahawk. I wonder if Deon Grant is a drinker or wife beater...

Posted by six shooter | May 13, 2008 3:25 PM
2

"0.155 and 0.158 when it was measured after 4"

Ah yes, taking a few drinks "for the road". Always a good idea.

Posted by w7ngman | May 13, 2008 3:37 PM
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Oh, jeez. Bernard and Tatupu were always the most fun to watch. This is such a bummer.

Posted by Garth | May 13, 2008 3:50 PM
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Damn it, Lofa, you were supposed to be one of the well-behaved ones!

He's been a good kid up to this point and isn't a career criminal like Chris Henry or Jerramy Stevens, so I'm hoping he takes this as a wake-up call, realizes he's supposed to be a team leader, and acts like one by never doing something fucked up like this again.

Posted by Hernandez | May 13, 2008 3:56 PM
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oh christ. they're the bengals except for the fact that they're GOOD.

i'm sick of DUIs being treated as if the player raped a 12 year old sex worker or smoked dope out of a human head. getting busted for a DUI is largely a matter of chance. if you have a car & you drink, you have driven over the legal limit.

Posted by max solomon | May 13, 2008 4:30 PM
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and i should point out, this is the KIRKLAND cops. the only place i've ever lived where the cops were as happy to bust anyone & everyone was, drumroll...

CINCINNATI.

Posted by max solomon | May 13, 2008 4:32 PM
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Drunk driving in Kirkland is just not classy.

Posted by Greg | May 13, 2008 5:05 PM
8

Well, Max, you're wrong. I don't drive drunk. And what I'm sick of is the presumption that athletes shouldn't be subject to the same laws as the rest of us. Good kid? He's a grownup.

Posted by Fnarf | May 13, 2008 5:26 PM
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You can take the boy out of 'SC, but you can't take the 'SC out of the boy. Simpson --> Bush --> Mayo --> Tatupu.

Posted by DOUG. | May 13, 2008 5:31 PM
10

KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!

Posted by Gloria | May 13, 2008 6:11 PM
11

I'm sorry, but if your name rhymes with poo-poo, trouble is just gonna come a-knockin'.

Posted by Jubilation T. Cornball | May 13, 2008 7:34 PM
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@8, Nobody was saying that he shouldn't be subject to the same laws as regular folk. The cops didn't let him go or give him a ride home because he's a famous football player. He was arrested and will have to pay the penalty.

I don't drive drunk now but I have in the past. Many times. Especially when I was his age. I was just very fortunate that I didn't get into an accident or get pulled over. So I can't pass judgement on Tatupu for getting a DUI.

Posted by Sugar | May 13, 2008 7:55 PM
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What the fuck is wrong with you drunk drivers? Surely you understand the great force behind a ton of steel at 60, even 30 miles per hour. Sometimes I wish windshields had never been invented so drivers could feel how fast they were going. Be more responsible, eh?

Posted by Anon | May 13, 2008 10:03 PM
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don't speed thru Kirkland /
Bellevue Just don't do it- they are sneaky mofo's thru there.
drinkin or not - which I would prefer not but just saying they are sticklers for their speed limits.
listen up BMW tailgaters!

Posted by irl | May 14, 2008 6:59 AM
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What I don't understand is, if you just signed a contract extension for $42 million, why the hell can you not call a cab? Hell, you can rent your own car.

And for the BAC he had, I can only wonder what and how much he had been drinking to achieve that.

Oh Lofa, I still have faith in you.

Posted by clinsea44 | May 14, 2008 8:18 AM

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