Salisbury Stupidity
May 20, 2008 by BHR
I never intended for this blog to be dedicated to drunken morons, but sometimes the stories just find you. Today’s example of why alcohol and stupidity do not mix well is from the D-III Salisbury State University Lacrosse Team.
Here is the report from DelmarvaNow
Zachary N. Krissoff, 22, of Annapolis and Riley C. Clark, 21, of Bethesda, Md., face multiple malicious destruction of property charges for a reported string of vandalism acts to a number of homes, mailboxes and vehicles.
Police said as of Saturday morning, three victims reported shattered house windows, eight victims reported shattered vehicle windows or punctured tires and four victims reported damage to their mailboxes. Police did not say what motivated the alleged incidents.
Clark
Krissoff
Please not that these are not mugshot photos, they just prepared for the future when taking their team photos. These two “student athletes” have since been kicked off the team and face a combined 34 (34!) charges. Now, normally this would just be another story about college athletes committing crimes, but this story comes with a fun little twist.
Salisbury was set to face off with Gettysburg Sunday in the National Semifinal game. (The same Gettysburg which handed Salisbury its last regular season loss two years ago.) Krissoff was the starting goalie for the defending national champion Sea Gulls. Usually a team would then call on its backup goalie, a challenge since Clark happened to be the backup. This forced the University to call on its third string goalie, Nick Fiorentino, who luckily has more career starts (1) then pending indictments. Happily for Sea Gulls fans, Fiorentino had a career high eight saves in a two overtime victory over the Bullets. His reward is a meeting with Cortland, the 2006 champions, in the title game.
To be honest, it would be hypocritical for me to be condemning college kids for celebrating the end of the semester and graduation with a few drinks, but at some point you would hope that one of these fellows would have realized that this was a bad idea. Besides the whole idea of training for a championship run, I’m thinking around the time that someone picked up a log and chucked it through a window most people would have realized that it was time to head home. But not our heroes, who then decided to smash a handful of mailbox and slash some car tires.
That’s the kind of decision making that potential employers love to see on a resume. Even if you are playing a lower profile sport for a small school, you have to realize that you are still the biggest sports story in town, and are going to get attention for your actions. Nothing sets you up for your future like criminal charges and an embarrassing Google search result.
Good luck on your future guys, I can only hope that it involves jail time and some serious community service.
