Josh Neer Admits to Mistakenly Being in a Drunken Police Chase

I am, at heart, an optimist and I believe that most people feel that intentionally endangering the lives of innocents for a bit of fun is a bad thing, and should be punished severely. Naturally, there will always be the shitty element of society that believes otherwise, but eh – I don’t speak for you.

Looking at the replies “most of us” does seem to be the proper term for the response to this at this site.

Black – You probably like heavy metal, S&M, or some combination thereof. Either way, it’s way more than we want to know about you. So don’t paint a room black. It’ll freak people out. Black walls also tend to look dirty because dust shows up very clearly.

http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/syws/paintroom/paintroom.html

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Yeah. Or fewer DUI’s.

Any job that is in the public eye such as this, the consequences and reprecussions are a lot different than normal jobs. Mr. Neer isn’t an accountant or flipping burgers at McDonalds, he is a professional athlete where your employer expects you to carry yourself in a certain way to make the company look good and respectable. This guy is potentially a role model for youngsters and other aspiring athletes wanting to make it in this sport, he owes it to them to conduct himself in a professional matter whether he likes it or not. He doesn’t want the responsibility? Don’t do the job then because this is a part of the job description.

If the judges decision is jail time (which is quite probably for a repeat offender like Neer) then that will most likely be the end of his (or anyone elses) job. Of course Neer isn’t an employee he’s a independant contractor who is paid for making public performances, his “job” isn’t really comparible to the vast majority of other people’s “jobs”.

I have no idea how strict they are, tho. But according to the reporter, the Eluding Police charge is a federal one so that’s out of the states hands.

I don’t know what the UFC will do in this case, cut him or keep him but if they keep him.. I’ll boycott watching any event this guy fights on. I’m sure that sounds silly to most of you but just due to a personal reason and losing loved ones to a drunk driver… I’m not supporting this careless moron.

I’m sure he can get jobs fighting for bar tabs after he gets out of the clink….. but according to my cousin’s wife who until recently was a legal assistant to the DA in Iowa City… Mr. Neer maybe getting a 120 days in jail and indefinite suspension of his license.

If it was his first offense for this then I’d buy that but it isn’t.

but drinking and then making the decision to get in a car is not a mistake. Hitting another car and making the decision to run is not a mistake. Running from the cops at over 100 MPH and putting the lives of police officers and other civilians is not a mistake. Those are DECISIONS and he made these decisions despite the danger it poses to the rest of the world.

I feel no sympathy for him.

You know, repeating the word “mistake” doesn’t make it true.

Also, you wrote, “I’m sure he learned from it…”. Sorry buddy, but that doesn’t say much for you because he didn’t learn from it the first time, and as the saying goes… “fool me once, shame on you, fool me.. mefoome.. you can’t get fooled again”.

He’s a two time loser, who knowingly put innocent people at great risk. The worst he can get isn’t bad enough, in my opinion.

Which mistake would that be? The first DUI, or running from the police at over 100 mph while trying to avoid his second DUI? Are you saying his mistake was not being able to get away or doing the exact same thing he did before? This is precisely the reason states had to implement such strong (not strong enough) penalties for repeat offenders. Because these a-holes do not learn from their mistakes. He may well be a nice/decent person, other than the fact he repeatedly keeps getting behind the wheel of his car drunk, but being actually caught for this twice really suggests that he has done this a lot more than twice which negates him being a “nice guy.”