The BUFFALO NEWS reports this morning:
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Buffalo Bills running back Marshawn Lynch took $20 from a Southtowns woman at a Hamburg restaurant last month, according to information received by The Buffalo News.
The woman’s husband, Buffalo Police Sgt. William Crawford, filed a complaint with Hamburg police a day after the incident, but they delayed giving a statement to detectives until Wednesday, in part because she wanted to wait until the Bills’ football season ended and Lynch was out of town.
The alleged incident happened at a TGI Fridays:
He takes the $20 out of her hand, and my wife says “What are you doing?’ and Lynch says “Don’t worry.’ When my wife’s girlfriend came back to the table, she told her about it. The girlfriend approached Lynch and said, “Give my friend her money back,’ and Lynch threatened her saying “Do you know who I am? There’s going to be consequences.’
Unbelievable? If you cover athletes for a living, not so much. More unreal though is how the woman got her money back.
Crawford said he filed the complaint the next day with Hamburg police, and about 10 days later, a letter with $20 arrived at their home from the police.
So the police sent the woman $20? There’s gotta be more to that, right?
I hope so.
Meanwhile, Lynch reportedly lied to the Bills that he knew the woman he allegedly stole the money from.
The woman’s husband said he wants to take the incident to a grand jury, and that Lynch is a “predator.”
Lynch’s past:
Lynch is currently on three years’ probation for a misdemeanor gun possession charge in Los Angeles and, earlier this week, an Ontario woman began a negligence lawsuit against him for his highly publicized 2008 hit-and-run accident in downtown Buffalo.
Lynch’s behavior is garden variety stuff when it comes to professional athletes. We see it all the time. But the police making restitution for the “predator”? That’s bizarre. But in a NFL small market like Buffalo, where athletes rule the city, not totally outside of the realm of possibility.
11:27 am on January 9th, 2010
I’ve got a friend who lives in Buffalo, works for the Bills actually..she sees this kind of attitude all the time from people like Marshawn and that same type of ego. What a bum. Cut him, pack his bags, get him out.
11:59 am on January 9th, 2010
I would like to hear some “old school” days stories about OJ and the Buffalo community
1:14 pm on January 9th, 2010
Yo! Thats how we affletes roll baby!! In college we’d take dem b!tches meal cards. Ain’t nobody gonna do noffing to us cause wes affletes and da coaches will take care of dat sh!t. Daammmn, dont bother me wit dis meaningless drivel i gotta goes lift!
4:14 pm on January 9th, 2010
Marshawn is trying to save up for retirement because Fred Jackson stole his job.
10:21 pm on January 9th, 2010
What a piece of shit.
11:52 am on January 10th, 2010
Just get rid of his ass and keep Coe College’s own Fred Jackson!
5:40 pm on January 10th, 2010
I could tell you stories about O.J. in Buffalo. My mentor in college was married to O.J.’s lead blocker. She knew I was a sports nut and used to tell me stories about what a creep O.J. was. Then she got to know Marcus Allen as he was hanging around the Juice and said he was just as bad.
Of course a year later O.J.’s ex-wife ends up dead and she is on the phone with me and I ask her and she says “He did it. No doubt.” He used to treat his first wife horribly and sleep with anything that had a pulse. He probably has 25 kids in Buffalo alone. I often wonder how much it cost him to keep his ex-wife (Margarite sp?) quiet.
My mentor actually saw O.J. grab her by the hair and basically drag her out of a party for the team and their famiiies, and saw him be extremely rough with her on many occasions. She said her husband sort of laughed it all off, and he was an abusive creep too. At her divorce (my mentor’s) she said that a lot of stuff came out about what was going on with the Bills and their extensive groupie network and how the young ladies would be basically passed around from player to player, and everybody was hooking up with OJ’s leftovers or rejects. Every road game was like an orgy at the team’s hotel.
He also was covered for by the Buffalo police for years and years. They ALWAYS looked the other way. If he had played in the age of information and especially the world wide web, there is no doubt in my mind that he’d be thought of as a Pacman Jones/Michael Vick/Marshawn Lynch type of character. In those days of coverups and overly protective hero worship he was looked at as a hero and built into some super great guy. We can see how well that all worked out.
10:02 am on January 11th, 2010
“My mentor, my mentor”. Who the fuck has a mentor and refers to him/ her that much? You need a fucking mentor retard.
12:34 pm on January 11th, 2010
It’s not that surprising, considering that the owners pretty much have the same attitude toward their fans. They just call it by other names to make it sound legal - “seat-right fees”, “Shula 80th Birthday Celebration”, etc.
12:46 pm on January 11th, 2010
Come to think of it, perhaps he thought she was a season-ticket holder, and just figured he could cut out the middle-man (the team owners) by taking the money directly.
12:58 pm on January 11th, 2010
Wait? Did OJ f*** your mentor?
2:10 pm on January 11th, 2010
Don’t blame Marshawn for taking the money, it’s proof he was paying attention in his Socialism class at Berkeley -yo money is my money.
2:41 pm on January 11th, 2010
there is no freaking way this young, clean cut, honest looking young man could have stole anything!!