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IUP Football Players Charged in Bar Brawl
KDKA-2 Pittsburgh ^ | May 18, 2005 | KDKA

Posted on 05/19/2005 8:15:18 AM PDT by zaxxon

IUP Football Players Charged in Bar Brawl

May 18, 2005 11:11 pm US/Eastern

Indiana, PA (KDKA) Four IUP football players are now facing charges including aggravated assault and causing a riot after police say a bar surveillance tape caught them assaulting two employees.

Three of the four suspects are from Western Pennsylvania, including Joe Slappy III, of Oakdale; Javon Hines, of Bridgeville; and Kirby Griffin, of Rochester.

According to Indiana Borough police, officers responded to a report of an assault in the early morning hours of May 5th at Wolfendales bar.

Witnesses told police that the four men started punching a male employee -- and injured a female worker as well.

Though the suspects ran off before police arrived, the entire assault was caught on tape by the bar's security camera.

(Excerpt) Read more at kdka.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: jagoffs

1 posted on 05/19/2005 8:15:18 AM PDT by zaxxon
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To: zaxxon
...including Joe Slappy III...

Joe Slappy Jr. actually wanted to pass on this name?

2 posted on 05/19/2005 8:18:07 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: zaxxon

Many of these same guys are also facing charges from when 11 or so football players went nuts at a frat house. I played sports there and am so embarassed. How pathetic. I have also heard that Cignetti was working hard to get the charges against the 11 players dropped.


3 posted on 05/19/2005 8:19:09 AM PDT by WV Mountain Mama (Behind every successful man is a woman rolling her eyes.)
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To: 3catsanadog; agrace; annyokie; Asphalt; Atlantin; Ayn Rand wannabe; Badray; Benrand; ...
Joe Slappy III

With a name like that, I might have a little 'tude as well.

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4 posted on 05/19/2005 8:24:39 AM PDT by martin_fierro (KnockKnock/Who's there?/Control Freak. Now you say, "Control Freak Who?")
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To: martin_fierro

this takes me back to when the Pelusi brothers, both Pitt football players, tried to strangle someone in a bar in Oakland... ahhhh, the good old days....


5 posted on 05/19/2005 9:06:42 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: PBRSTREETGANG

great tape. Well I guess my educational tax money is being well spent although I think the diversity issue could use a little work. Just remember your kids have to go to school with these types of thugs and face abuse and intimidation on a daily basis. I played football and it is my favorite sport but I think its time to stop offering sports scholarships. Schools have started recruiting thugs who have no interest in a education. Players should have to meet the grade requirements of any other scholarship students and if the NFL needs a team farm system let them build it. This is a big reversal form what I thought when I was younger.


6 posted on 05/19/2005 9:17:30 AM PDT by jec41 (Screaming Eagle)
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To: martin_fierro
Three of the four suspects are from Western Pennsylvania, including Joe Slappy III

Aggravated assault....... "Slappy", how appropriate.

7 posted on 05/19/2005 9:39:09 AM PDT by beyond the sea (I’m sleeping with myself tonight.........saved in time, thank God my music’s still alive)
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To: martin_fierro

Effin A


8 posted on 05/19/2005 9:39:56 AM PDT by beyond the sea (I’m sleeping with myself tonight.........saved in time, thank God my music’s still alive)
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To: martin_fierro

Well, maybe while he's in court, he can get his named changed to match his record:

Ben Slapped


9 posted on 05/19/2005 9:59:57 AM PDT by Badray ((Under construction))
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To: martin_fierro
I hope the press is all over them! They beat the sh#t of of the bartender guy. Broken facial bones, foot etc! They have been dropped from the team according to the news at 6.

And WVU students get beat up in the press for burning a few old couches!......LOL

10 posted on 05/19/2005 4:31:03 PM PDT by MadelineZapeezda (If you right click on Madeline Albright's image, my name should show up!)
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To: zaxxon
Actually, I've been in brawls with IUP football players before, I went to IUP and was a member of one of the frats down on 7th st. I've seen, and been in the middle of, some knock down drag outs uptown before.

Ahhh, the good old days. I always hated Wolfendales, what a crappy bar, it's like putting 200 people in my apartment, you're squished up against everyone with nowhere to go.

11 posted on 05/22/2005 11:05:15 AM PDT by Benrand
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". . .it's like putting 200 people in my apartment, you're squished up against everyone with nowhere to go."

Is that why everybody goes there?


12 posted on 05/22/2005 11:07:30 AM PDT by righttackle44 (The most dangerous weapon in the world is a Marine with his rifle and the American people behind him)
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To: zaxxon

What? No arrow??? Pikers!


13 posted on 05/22/2005 11:20:51 AM PDT by JamesWilson
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14 posted on 05/22/2005 11:21:52 AM PDT by farmfriend (Down with the sickness -Disturbed)
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