Re: Warning to Paul M

[Elgin W Booth <ewbooth@hopper.unh.edu>]

Wow, what a story!  Case against drafting basketball players out of high
school. 250 pain relievers? Bahhhhh!!


 
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> "Mavs' rookie hospitalized following overdose, arrest"
> (AP) - The odyssey of 19-year-old Leon Smith has taken another bizarre
> twist, with the Dallas Mavericks rookie spending time in a psychiatric
> ward after police found him overdosed on aspirin. A house guest called
> police late Sunday saying Smith threw a large rock through the rear
> window of his Ford Explorer. When officers arrived, they found Smith
> passed out on the floor of his apartment wearing green war paint on his
> face, a police report  states. Smith slightly resisted officers and
> paramedics, then stopped and "stated that he was an Indian and was
> fighting Columbus," the report said. The visitor -- a 33-year-old friend
> from the group home where Smith was raised -- told police Smith had
> taken more than 250 pain relievers. Smith was taken to the psychiatric
> ward of Parkland Health & Hospital System. Hospital officials said Smith
> was in their care Monday.
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