I'm two years late to the Party on this but it's too funny not to do a quick post on it. I have one of those Daily Calendars for your desk. Everyday its a little story and you have to guess whether it is Fact or Crap. Today's story was amongst the best. It read:"A man in Oklahoma City asked for a longer prison term so it would match Larry Bird's jersey number."
FACT: "In 2005, Eric James Torpy was tried and convicted of robbery and shooting with intent to kill. He was about to be sentenced to 30 years, but decided that if he was going to serve a long term, he might as well make his sentence match the jersey number of Celtics basketball great Larry Bird. Torpy claims that Bird is his favorite basketball player, and he wanted to pay homage to "Larry Legend" with his jail sentence."
So I googled his name and found this hilarious quote:
“He said if he was going to go down, he was going to go down in Larry Bird’s jersey,” Oklahoma County District Judge Ray Elliott said Wednesday. “We accommodated his request and he was just as happy as he could be. I’ve never seen anything like this in 26 years in the courthouse. But, I know the DA is happy about it.” Freakanomics
I wonder what he would have done had his favorite player been Lawrence Taylor. Do you think he could have bargained and gotten 56 years but been able to receive some of Lawrence's crack leftovers. Perhaps that would have been a fair swap. I would guess that crack is a pretty sellable commodity when you're in the slammer. However just getting an extra three years so you can associate yourself with someone who has nor will ever talk to you is quite ludicrous. Man do I love Hicks and their stupidity
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