Former NFL linebacker Junior Seau says he fell asleep at the wheel when he drove off a cliff hours after his arrest early this morning and was not trying to kill himself.
TMZ reports that Seau told police that he wasn’t trying to commit suicide when he drove his Cadillac Escalade off a cliff in Carlsbad, California. He says he nodded off while driving.
The crash came hours after he was arrested on felony domestic violence charges and accused of attacking a woman described as his 25-year-old live-in girlfriend.
Seau reportedly showed no signs of being under the influence of alcohol or drugs, but a blood test was taken shortly after the incident.
that would do it. either way, he’s lucky to be alive. in my experience, driving off cliffs is typically a short-lived pasttime
Junior Seau says he fell asleep, didn’t attempt suicide
I doubt he was drunk. He just got out of the cage for at least 5 hours. thats plenty of time to sober up especially since the original report didnt mention alcohol.
he probably did fall asleep and is having a rash of horrible luck.
Sure, and I have a bridge to sell anybody who believes that too.
“Accused of attacking a woman described as his 25-year-old live-in girlfriend.”
Is he nuts?
Says he fell asleep?
I think there is a lot more to this story.
was tired from the beating he gave his gf, understandable
I believe him. He was up all night getting booked. He was tired. And nodded off thinking to himself, “Man, when I get home, I’m going to beat that b*tches @ss!”
O’Doyle rules! O’Doyle rules!
I don’t buy it.
As Judge Judy says, “If it doesn’t make sense, it’s not true.
concussions got to this guy…
junior,
why dont you just go tie a rope around yur head and ballz and hang yourself in the closet?
-pm
GO LIONS
Wisconsin_Myself, idiot. Live out here and that’s EXACTLY what happens. Cliffs with blind curves so shut up and eat your moldy cheese.
@bigMikeSkinsFan
Are you saying that attacking a female is just part of “having a rash of horrible luck” ?
First, the question that should be asked is whether he did it because was the aggressor in the domestic violence incident, or was she, and whether a female officer was dispatched to hear her story. A good example of why can be found on a 2005 episode of COPS. In it, two male San Antonio (TX) police officers arrive on a domestic violence call. When they arrived, they found the man sitting outside the house, claiming he never even went inside the house. When the officers went inside, they found a very upset woman who said he had grabbed her by the arms and neck. She had the hand shaped bruises to prove it.
The officers than went outside to place the man under arrest, just as a female officer arrived. She also went in to talk to the woman. When she came out, she informed the other officers that the hand shaped bruises were more the size and shape of the woman’s own hands, so she went to talk to the neighbors. They told her that the woman, and not the man, was the abusive one.
At this point, they released the man, but informed him that the county prosecutor could still charge him, as arrests are mandatory in Texas whenever a woman makes a domestic violence claim.
The female officer saw through the tears of the woman and saw the truth.
In my 21 years of working with men, I’ve seen it repeatedly that when a female officer is on the scene, where a false allegation may be in play, she is the one to see it.
In 1994, when Kansas passed its mandatory arrest law, something interesting happened in the City of Lawrence, a University town about 40 miles from Kansas City. Over 50% of the ones arrested for domestic violence were women. The women’s shelters protested this, saying the officers were poorly trained in knowing who the real abuser is. However, whereas the national average for female officers is just 13%, in Lawrence it was nearly 40%, with them making most of the arrests.
Talking with female officers, they tell me that they do see a lot more than the male officers do, including the evidence of male officers who are themselves victims.
He may have been the victim, but it is common when the male is the victim, he is the one arrested, as in this case involving a sheriff deputy. Also, a man his size is not going to leave minor injuries. A woman doing ti to herself would.
http://A-Daughters-Story-Of-Abuse.dads-house.org
Male Victims of Domestic Violence Logo
http://Speak-No-Truths.dads-house.org
Domestic Abuse Helpline for Men and Women
http://DAHMW-FaceBook.waits4u.com
Attacked his GF? What a pussy…
@Wisconsin_Myself
Bridge to sell….genius. How did you come up with that one?
Jimi Heselden atleast does it the GREEN way.
ROID RAGE!
His fists were tired
He was probably watching the Chargers game.
Seems legit. Let the man out.
It sounds reasonable. According to my interpretation of the pictures of the accident scene, the view from the cliff appeared to be similar to that of looking down from the top of a small hill to the beach. The vehicle didn’t look like it rolled and it was being towed back up the hill from the front as though he went down the hill backwards. Maybe he overcorrected and spun out.
if he smoked weed, NONE of this would ever happen!
Right. And O.J. was just out for a quick cruise on the L.A. freeway.
Sad story. I hope he gets his life straightened out.
He probably watched the Chargers choke in St. Louis. That’s enough to make any Charger fan want to drive off a cliff….
In a span of the three stories you ran about Seau today, I went from being disappointed in him, to feeling sorry for him, to finally thinking he’s just a tool.
Junior Seau says he fell asleep at the wheel
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Yeah, and Vince Young was “just sitting in a car” with a loaded gun.
Guy gets arrested at 2am and gets booked etc etc so at 4 am or so gets released. In addition may be told not to go back to where he normally sleeps to let things “cool down”. Not surprised at all if he falls asleep and drives off a cliff. Tire tracks will give cops an idea if the story is plausible or not. Plenty of places along the Pacific ocean where you can wind up driving off a cliff if you fall asleep. Cops would definitely lock Seau up if they thought he was suicidal and not careless. My guess is this story is exactly what Seau is saying.
There are plenty of complexities to this story.
But people, we know the big problem here. Why is an elite millionaire athlete driving a Cadillac Escalade? You would think that people with money could buy a car that is actually good, responsive, fast, something that makes driving worthwhile.The escalade is a little red wagon, piece of dung. A cadillic freaking escalade? Maybe that’s why he drove of a cliff, just to kill one of the worst vehicles ever made.
# JimmyY says: October 18, 2010 6:30 PM
Wisconsin_Myself, idiot. Live out here and that’s EXACTLY what happens. Cliffs with blind curves so shut up and eat your moldy cheese.
Of course an idiot like you could have never guessed that I lived near Big Sur for several years. Driving on those roads with cliffs and blind curves (however, since Jr. live in the area they are not blind are they? He knws where they are) keeps you more awake then any stimulant in the world can. Given the circumstances involved beforehand, it is pretty obvious that this was an intentional move.
Did he do a sack dance after he hit her? He was always a better dancer than tackler!
Seriously, this is obviously the result of Head trauma. Leading with the Head has to be the cause. Start suspending players who hit people while playing football and all domestic violence issues will go away!
# Rex Grossman says: October 18, 2010 6:36 PM
@Wisconsin_Myself
Bridge to sell….genius. How did you come up with that one?
How about oceanfront property in New Mexico? Does that work for you? Sorry, I’ll try to keep it “fresh” for your ADD mind in the future.
Careful here GUYS…One of the biggest entrapment tools females have is to accuse a man of DV.
Many states, all they need to do is tell a cop that a guy hit them…and guy gets arrested. Many ‘gilted’ women use that to nail a guy.
JimmyY says:
October 18, 2010 6:30 PM
Wisconsin_Myself, idiot. Live out here and that’s EXACTLY what happens. Cliffs with blind curves so shut up and eat your moldy cheese.
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in carlsbad? first off, thats not even a cliff, its a hill. second off, it was daylight and on a straight area. I live in SD and know that area very well. No way a “blind curve” hit him.
gameday says:
October 18, 2010 6:31 PM
@bigMikeSkinsFan
Are you saying that attacking a female is just part of “having a rash of horrible luck” ?
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im saying something like that but not that it was bad luck he lost his temper. Junior has never been in trouble for anything like this before and its a damn shame it happened to him and then when he gets out to crash like that makes it just that much worse.
what, no patriots jokes? lol
# dave says: October 18, 2010 7:23 PM
what, no patriots jokes? lol
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Seau hit his girlfriend, then tried to commit suicide.
And I thought Phillip Rivers had a bad day.
what makes this work for most hard working americans alot of jobs ask if you have been arrested for domestic violnce and if yes your automaticly disqualified which is shame if u truly didnt do noting wrong but still have to be arrested it follows you for a long time
I damn near drove off a cliff driving down 101 all night to get to a girlfriends brothers house in Long Beach. She woke up just in time to catch me nodding off. So yea, I could see it happening.
its probably true ive been locked up a time or two or three and you do not get much sleep in jail. keep your head up and butt down. stop hitting women
Junior should have just said that he was going surfing and thought he could take a shortcut.
I know the “cliffs.” You don’t really think of the part he went off as “cliffs” but there are probably a couple of “real” cliffs nearby. And you still drive fully aware that losing the road to the oceanside means you are going to die when your car flips or rolls. 30 ft to the shore or not. It doesn’t need to be a 90 ft sheer cliff to be deadly.
People who fall asleep tend not to veer off sharply; they slowly lose the road with changes in direction of the road, changes in the surface, and the alignment of their wheels.
Junior was observed to have just turned off the road, straight out to the ocean.
Let’s see, Seau’s ex says he never harmed
her, and she doesn’t believe he harmed
this gal.
She also says no way was it a suicide attempt.
Cops also say they don’t think it was a
suicide attempt.
So Seau, his ex, and the cops say
“No suicide attempt.”
Evidence for? Uh, unsupported hunches
of some football fans. That should do…
Isn’t that exactly what the guy said in Office Space in his garage?
Was he wearing a seat belt? I would assume so considering the size of the cliff the car was sitting under. If he was, it probably wasn’t suicide.
I guess it’s up to his insurance company to decide.
Sunday…Sunday…Sunday says:
October 18, 2010 7:45 PM
# dave says: October 18, 2010 7:23 PM
what, no patriots jokes? lol
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Thanks!
# dave says: October 18, 2010 7:23 PM
“what, no patriots jokes? lol”
I was thinking: what, no Tila Tequila jokes?
Say-Ow!!!!
paging Deb…paging Deb….will you tell us in 5000 words or less about the pitfalls of domestic violence and why Big Ben will commit it in the future??LOL
NATEISGAYFORBRADY: LOL I WLDA BEEN THINKN AND DOING THE SAME THING!! HAHA OH
Don’t be having 25 year old live in girlfriends. Nothing good will come of it. They need drama in their life and when they have it good they need to be even more dramatic.
Not saying what he did, whatever it happens to be, was deserving but you can head this situation off by knowing that you don’t live with a piece of ass. If you have nothing in common with this woman and the situation is closer to prostitution than one might want to admit than it won’t end well.
You can still find a good looking gal in her early 30s who is more grounded and maybe reads as well. Someone that can enhance your image in retirement instead of… well this.
Believable story. Anyone who’s spent a night in jail can probably attest to not getting much sleep.
Maybe he was just trying to rid the world of the hideous Escalade, one at a time. Well Junior, one down, a gazillion more to go. At least it’s a start.
I guess his live-in gf “drove” him so crazy, he finally went “over the edge”…ba dum dum
# Allied Biscuit says: October 18, 2010 6:24 PM
“O’Doyle rules! O’Doyle rules!”
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Classic
Seau ran over a banana peel on the highway
How long before “DEADSPIN” is knocking at the front door of his “girlfriends” house for a look-see?
Pass the ‘roids please! I’m sure their are no long term effects………
If he was wearing seatbelt its doubtful it was a suicide attempt, unless he’s a complete moron, or brain damaged from years of headshots. And while what he drove off of I guess is techinically a “cliff”, a more responsible description would have been “embankment”, but I guess that wouldn’t be as interesting a headline.
Suicide Attempt
This story has to be updated, they just played audio on Mike and Mike of one of the police witnesses. He said the SUV was driving real slowly then he heard the engine roar and the thing whizzed past him and flew over the cliff.
Seau took too many hits to the head man, he’s probably loose.