Here we go again; Police 'respond' to players' residence

Not much is known about this yet, but it seems right now that it's nothing. We'll see. I'm sure it will get blown up, if the media has anything to do with it. Penn State should just call up ESPN right now, sort of a preemptive strike.

"Police entered apartment 5204 late last night for unknown reasons. According to the directory, defensive end Maurice Evans, cornerback A.J. Wallace and defensive tackle Abe Koroma live in apartment 5204."

Wow, that's some fine investigative journalism there, young Collegian grasshopper. Keep it up, and someday you might work for Outside The Lines.

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Are they really that fed up with JoePa?

You can't make this stuff up. Apparently, some moron ransacked the Lasch Building the night he turned 21. Ah, these kids. Can't they hold their alcohol anymore? From the Daily Collegian:

"A student is facing various charges after police said he entered the Lasch Football Building on Thursday morning and caused $5,000 worth of damage -- all while wearing a Penn State football helmet. Daniel J. Costenbader (junior-electrical engineering), who turned 21 today, was arraigned on charges of burglary, criminal trespass, criminal mischief, theft by unlawful taking, receiving stolen property and public drunkenness before Magisterial District Justice Carmine Prestia, according to court documents. He was released on $50,000 unsecured bail."

Well, at least the kid's got team spirit, and originality, wearing that Penn State helmet. After all, we wouldn't want a promising young engineering student like that hurting his head, now would we?

"Following a night of drinking at his friend's University Terrace apartment and two downtown bars, Costenbader told police he was on his way back to his Toftrees apartment when he decided to hop the fence onto the football practice field. He told police he stripped to his boxer shorts and began running around the field, hitting tackling dummies. He then saw an open gate and headed toward the Lasch building, according to court documents.

Though Costenbader told police he doesn't remember much about being in the building, he admitted to breaking a glass window as well as being in the locker and weight rooms, according to court documents. While inside, Costenbader allegedly damaged a window in the training office by throwing weights at it, flipped two tables and two trampolines in the training room and broke a window in the south lobby.

When police entered the building, Costenbader was seen picking up the Alamo Bowl trophy, valued at $2,000, which he then put back down. A stolen equipment bag, valued at $40, was also found near the first broken window and contained eight Nike footballs, valued at $50 each, Nike cleats, valued at $125."

So as we can figure out by now, the Lasch Building isn't exactly Fort Knox. You'd think that a multi-million dollar facility housing hundreds of priceless pieces of Penn State football history would be a bit more secure than this. Naaah. Don't worry, folks. Nothing to see here.

Seriously, it's not like this kid barely got into the building before being tackled by several security officers. He had a freaking scrimmage with himself before the cops arrived!

On a side note, I once had Magisterial District Justice Carmine Prestia when I contested a speeding ticket. The cop I was challenging was such a dick-head, and when he mispronounced my name, Prestia totally bitch-slapped his ass by correcting him out loud in front of me, a dumb college kid. I ended up paying the ticket, but the moral victory against the State College Police Department was enough vindication for me.

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State College's finest at it again

When one Penn State student was issued a jaywalking ticket this week, it must have been like getting hit by a b-- er, ooh, wait.

Not that I want to inundate the Web with this story, but I feel this is just so outrageous, I can't let it go. You've most likely read about the Penn State student who was hit by a vehicle while trying to catch a CATA bus on W. College Ave. Then, while in the hospital, the officer who responded to the scene issued her a jaywalking citation. What a royal jackass.

I promise, this won't take long. If there were a small-town equivalent to the Bush-Cheney administration, it would be the State College Police department. It's almost as if their sole mission is to generate as much revenue as possible from tickets and citations, mainly given to college students--students who are the singular force behind the central Pennsylvania economic structure, and keeping these low lives employed. I can't tell you how many times I was ticketed less than five minutes after a College/Beaver Ave meter expired.

Here's another great one from the SCPD: I was driving down W. College Ave, and got to the intersection with Blue Course Drive. While waiting at the light, a maroon Dodge minivan traveling Southbound on Blue Course proceeded to make a U-turn at the intersection. A police cruiser was DIRECTLY BEHIND THIS VAN. Remember that, it's important later in this story.

So my girlfriend and I were kind of laughing that the cop didn't even notice this person making an illegal U-turn (a moving violation). Just as the van finished the turn, our light turned green. We made the right onto Blue Course, not too far from the van. Then, the cop actually makes the same U-turn as the van, and started to speed up. Obviously, he was going to finally make the traffic stop and nab the van's driver. NO! He pulled me over, and in a condescending tone asked me if I knew U-turns were illegal. I was ready to flip a shit on this guy, but I simply told him that the van that was right in front of his eyes made the turn, and that it's probably too far gone to do anything now. Thankfully, he believed us. To this day, I don't know what that cop was looking at. All I know is that if the rest of the SCPD is as alert as this winner, we're all in trouble.

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