[CBFF] [Fwd: BENSON SOUNDS OFF]

[Phil DeNomme]

Maybe I missed it but did he say he wasn't drinking or just wasn't drunk?
You can be legally drunk but not feel a think.  After 2 or 3 drinks, you
could read legally drunk and I would think most adult males can take a
couple beers without feeling drunk.

 

Plus, refusing to take a test on land?  If he wasn't drunk he would have had
nothing to worry about.

 

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BENSON SOUNDS OFF
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Posted by Mike Florio on May 5, 2008, 7:05 a.m. 

Bears running back Cedric Benson isn't taking his recent arrest for boating
under the influence quietly.

Benson has told multiple media outlets that he was fine, and that he
generally didn't do anything wrong.

"I was not intoxicated
<http://www.suntimes.com/sports/931690,CST-NWS-cedric05web.article> ,"
Benson said, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.  "There was alcohol on the
boat, and others were enjoying themselves, but I wasn't drunk."

But Benson, per police, failed a sobriety test designed for boaters, and
then refused to go ashore for more testing.  He also refused to put on a
life jacket.

After Benson was pepper sprayed and his boat docked, Benson refused to leave
it.   "They kicked my feet out from under me and slammed my face down," he
said.  "They had a hose and were running it over my face. They were choking
me and stuff, not with their hands but with the hose in my face.  I couldn't
breathe.  I don't know if they did that because of the pepper spray, but I
didn't ask them to put the hose in my face."

Benson also told NBC 5 that he believes he is, and has been, a target:  "I
get pulled over every time I take my boat out," Benson said. "It's Austin,
Texas.  They know me."

Bears coach Lovie Smith said that he is "[v]ery disappointed" by the arrest.
"You try to wait and get as much information before you make a lot of
comments about it, and that's what I am going to do," Smith said.  "We're
always disappointed when we have someone that we're talking about being in
trouble with the law."

The question is whether the Bears will take meaningful action against Benson
based on any information they obtain.  Though they didn't hesitate to cut
defensive tackle Tank Johnson, that move came after Johnson was arrested
after he was presumably placed on a last-chance plan following his
incarceration for probation violation. 

>From a football standpoint, the Bears can keep Benson at a reasonable rate
for the next two years.  He's due to earn $820,000 and $1.02 million,
respectively, in 2008 and 2009, the final seasons of his rookie contract.





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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill
the world with fools.
  - Herbert Spencer

 

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