EDIT: Didn't realize it was behind a paywall - Flea of Red Hot Chilli Peppers' favorite Virginia Tech transfer pickup (probably), who happens to share the same initials as a beleaguered Hokie football administrator, is in a little legal "hot water" involving jazz grass.
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So he wasn't speeding? Explains why Georgia didn't recruit him
What instrument does Flea play?
Number 23 from the Bulls last name is his first name
A type of fish is the player's last name
Null Trout?
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Transfer linebacker Jordan Bass (it is on the Montgomery County General District Court docket.)
DWI: DRUGS, 1ST OFFENSE
CIVIL VIOLATION - MARIJUANA: POSS/CONSUME < 21
Case number is: GC25000624-00 and GC25000625-00
Hearing is February 4th
Well damn, that was fast
Anyone who is morbidly curious can use this to look it up https://eapps.courts.state.va.us/gdcourts/nameSearch.do
We are SO BACK
*BAK
Meh, Turk will get this cleaned right up
Am I the only one who read the initial post and wondered "Is bourbonstreet giving sevenlayers posting lessons?"
Not related but i've often wondered if bstreet learned his lingo by hanging at the bar with Willard?
I'm too drunk to taste this chicken.
I'd give this a leg but this is already at 25.
No. No you are not.
1st offense possession of weed? These days that's not a whole lot worse than getting caught drinking underage. He'll probably get some community service and be fine as long as he stays clean.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I thought that stuff was decriminalized by now. Particularly in Maryland.
I don't even think it's even that bad.
Virginia decriminalized weed back in 2021.
You still have to be 21, though. This is more or less the equivalent to getting caught underage with a beer.
Edit: looks like they're calling it a DWI, which is a little worse than just possession. Still would be surprised if he got the book thrown at him. It all depends on the judge, I guess, but he should be fine.
Light work for Jimmy.
Reminder to not drive if you can help it, use rideshare, bike, use transit, or walk if you can. Also a reminder that Blacksburg is not very walkable because the town has decided to put most student housing outside of reasonable walking distance.
NIL should come with a driving service. Paid-for uber within Montgomery county.
Quite frankly, with as big a tech school as we are, it would be pretty interesting if we banned cars on campus, working with a tech company to roll out an automated ride share company that will take you anywhere on campus or to any of the surrounding apartment complexes, and shopping centers.
Would still need a Montgomery County option.
I wonder how University of Maryland even has a program, unless they have a blanket exemption there.
What program at UMD are you talking about? I'm currently a grad student there and they have a couple of programs to help reduce the number of car commuters, but I'm not aware of any automated rideshare offering.
I'm talking about their football program.
But I can see how someone who wasn't looking very closely could have missed it.
I don't think they're driving people around, but I'm wondering how they get their players out of trouble there.
LOL, yea I don't interface with their athletics at all. I go to class and either go back to work or go home.
I was confused because you replied to Alum's post about a general rideshare to reduce cars on campus at VT.
Yeah, in hindsight I could see how my comment was confusing. Was supposed to be funny, but if you have to explain the joke, well...
It's been done and it sucks
MPRT was awesome in high school to get to the football stadium. We parked at my dad's office outside the ROTC building and rode to the games. It wasn't practical at all for the majority of classes or residents at WVU. Only real students that used it were in the medical school.
I imagine it could be integrated better at Tech due to how the school and town are lined up but still not really practical.
Yeah I was thinking something more along the lines of the driverless Waymo taxis in San Fran, Phoenix, and Arizona.
They are everywhere in downtown San Fran. Here in PHX, they have dialed back the territory considerably- basically the airport and central downtown.
Yeah, I saw the clip of a passenger in one to go to the airport. The car got lost in parking lot of his hotel and just kept going in circles with the door locked. He had to call customer support and ended up missing his flight. No thanks.
Again, I have confidence that our university could figure it out. But we stopped inventing the future a long, long time ago
Its a great concept- a safe car ride without an aggressive unskilled asshole person behind the wheel. But its not perfect obviously. Someone hacked the San Fran hub and all of the cars were honking at 3am. Nothing you can do until its fixed. Imagine a bad actor hacking it to slam into buildings at high speed?
You make a good point and of all the negatives i had thought of, I hadn't considered that one .
Again, I could see VT being able to implement something better than what Waymo has out there right now, and given the secure Intranet that exists on campus, I would also trust the school to be able to keep it far more secure than it would be in the public web, and much harder to hack. Especially on that closed infrastructure where it would be much easier to track down who did what should someone try.
The problem gets significantly easier on a closed network va public network (open roads). But I would worry about the foot traffic which is higher than lots of other places. Also no such thing g as a secure network.
Why not? VT pays for their education, books, lodging, food, medical... why not their cars/drivers too?
Lawyers, you forgot we also pay for their lawyers.
You do realize that VT provides free legal counsel to all it's students, right? We had to sue our landlord Junior year and made it incredibly easy and actually resulted in some accountability from the leasing agency.
aren't the busses free now though?
Ya, they bussin'.
No cap
let him cook
I can't tell you how many times I was not coherent on a bus, literally I don't remember.
The busses don't run all day and night, and while they're every 10-15 minutes during school hours, they're only every 30 minutes outside those hours. Plus they don't go to every location. As someone who has worked in transportation policy, people use the transportation option that's most convenient. Someone choosing between a bus coming every 30 minutes in the winter that may require a transfer vs. a car you can drive now that takes half the time will almost always choose to drive.
The issue here isn't so much busy frequency and routing, Blacksburg isn't Chicago where we should have higher frequency but don't. The issue is that Blacksburg as a university town was built out so that you have to get in a motorized vehicle to make a significant number of trips & that walking/biking is not encouraged.
I used to walk from campus and downtown to my townhouse near Nellie's cave park. Blacksburg is totally walkable, if you're willing to do it.
And if you're hammered, the time really flies by.
Piedmont condos for the win. I took the bus in the morning to campus and walked home in the afternoon. Good three mile walk was great exercise.
I did a lot of bus to, walking home from Foxridge, then moved to Sturbridge and walked both ways. Not nearly as far, but as you said, good exercise and I felt better for doing it.
What you would do/what we might want people to do and how people actually behave are two different things. "Walkable" is defined not as what a person can physically walk. Usually it's defined as a distance between 0.25-1 mile, most use 0.5 miles as a "walkability" range, really what we can expect the average person to be willing to walk. There are other factors like infrastructure, streetscape including buildings, and noise. So while the distance from Derring Hall to Main St or to the Math Empo are similar, they have different levels of walkability.
The best book on this is probably Walkable Cities by Jeff Speck
By this metric, the campus itself is marginally walkable at best. Lee Hall to McBryde is 0.5 miles; McBryde to Litton-Reaves (or "Animal Science" in my day) is 0.7-0.8- I never scheduled back to back classes in those two buildings on MWF cause (without running) you can't walk from one to the other in the ten minute break(barely can make it on T/TH with 15 min break if you hurry; (not to mention that's door to door- not trying to get down 3-4 flights of stairs through a crowd in McBryde))
0.5 equals about 10 minutes walking, which is the max time the average person is willing to walk from point A to B. For reasons you stated, campus is marginally walkable by that metric which I think tracks with most of our experiences there. For example walking from the academic side to McComas vs. taking a bus from Burruss to McComas. Not a perfect or exact measurement, but it usually tracks.
We (planners) use this measurement, along with other walkability metrics, to locate transit stops as well as housing and businesses.
As long as that crazy translates onto the field I'm cool with it
So basically hope he is the 'Juanaboy and tell him the other team thinks hookah is better.