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The sweetest mop fighting action since Coming to America

This sounds like some ridiculous scene out of a movie:

Provo Police Capt. Cliff Argyle said distance runner Kyle Perry, 23, was traveling east on Center Street when he reportedly struck a pedestrian in a crosswalk with his car.

Argyle said after hitting the pedestrian, who was pushing a mop bucket, Perry is accused of getting out of his vehicle, grabbing a mop from the bucket and striking the pedestrian with the mop. The pedestrian reportedly grabbed another mop to defend himself, Argyle said.

Perry is accused of then shoving the pedestrian over a planter box and getting back into his car and attempting to leave the scene. But the pedestrian reportedly stood in front of the vehicle and didn’t allow Perry to leave until police arrived.

Which of course leads us to this scene:

Really, there was no need for Samuel L to shoot up the ceiling.

Links:
[Deseret News]: Y. runner arrested in mop-swinging assault

Those crazy BYU kids and their water balloons

It’s all fun and games until
someone kicks in a door

Two members of the BYU team, Terrance Deshawn Hooks and Vitale Ta’aaga Magauli So’oto, were arrested on suspicion of burglary after they kicked in a couple of doors at an apartment complex while trying to hunt down the throwers of a water balloon that hit one of the player’s girlfriend.

While looking for the tossers, the pair mistakenly kicked in the wrong door. After discovering their mistake, they went into another wrong apartment, but then found the balloon throwers hiding in a closet in a third apartment. The policeman neglected to opine whether the pair of balloon pranksters were cowering like little bitches. The two balloon throwers were arrested on criminal mischief but their names were not released.

Hooks and So’oto were also suspended by the BYU coach for violating team rules. Two football players going after two guys after one of their girlfriends was hit by a water balloon? Coach Mendenhall should count his blessings. This is kids stuff. If this was Florida, there would have been a rifle and weapons charges involved.

Links:
[Salt Lake Tribune]: BYU football players arrested, suspended