Comments on: Jaguars defensive tackle Nate Collins arrested

By: labarrejr

labarrejr — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 12:47:23 +0000

I drove by and Nate was sitting up against the hood of his car with his arms crossed while a lady was talking with the two troopers with her hands behind her back.

By: runmjd

runmjd — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:58:46 +0000

Arrested for possession of a plant. Shame, shame, you know your name America. DECRIMINALIZE PLANTS!!!!!

By: polarbroncofan

polarbroncofan — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 19:10:37 +0000

DWB with tinted windows and pot in the trunk – not too smart, especially for a guy who made only 10 tackles last year. The odds are pretty good he’ll have plenty of time to smoke all the pot he wants as he spends the next ten years trying to earn the equivalent of one year as a minimum salaried player in the NFL.

By: charger383

charger383 — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 05:05:46 +0000

VA troopers really look for tented windshields

By: regisphilbin

regisphilbin — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:44:56 +0000

Fool probably got his VA registered car tinted in Jax. If he had FL registration he wouldn’t have been pulled up there.

By: keeponhating

keeponhating — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:39:21 +0000

A friend of mine did a “ride along” with AZ DPS to see if he wanted to work there. The cop he rode with told him straight up That things like cracked windshields, broken taillights, and tint violations have very little to do with safety. Its an excuse to pull u over and have a look in your car

By: rob0527

rob0527 — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:25:39 +0000

I agree with raider757. I know it looks cool, but why give cops an easy reason to pull u over, especially if u know u r going to be riding dirty.

By: raiders757

raiders757 — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 23:43:55 +0000

Virginia doesn’t allow as dark a tint as the states around us, and have been cracking down on it throughout the state over the past year. Window tint shops don’t care what the law is, and will tint you as dark as you are willing to pay for. They know you’ll be back to pay them to peel it off and put on a lighter tint at a later date.

By: babyhorsemorgan

babyhorsemorgan — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 23:14:27 +0000

Turns out that Nate’s “smoked glass” windows were the result of long term accumulation of residue from second hand marijuana smoke. Illegal to tint them in that fashion.

By: blackdonnelly

blackdonnelly — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 23:07:27 +0000

As a rule, most cops won’t even beef about window tint unless it’s below 30% tint, which is actually pretty damn dark. I don’t get why folks have to tint them down all the way to 10% then complain when the cops pinch ‘em for too dark of tint. Throw some weedage into the mix, and jah sure I can see how our boy here got all confused.

The magic number is 30% – anything below that will get you pinched, seriously.

Meanwhile, his career probably is waving bye-bye at this point, which is a shame because weed really should be legalized. The users, on the other hand, well, some need to be read to from the Book of Revelations, and I’m not referring to the Bible (I use that book as a doorstop anyway).

By: skinsfan5

skinsfan5 — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 22:46:26 +0000

What else are you going to do in Warrenton, VA ?

By: realitypolice

realitypolice — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 22:42:38 +0000

Stupid Athlete 101.

Don’t over tint your windows! You might as well hang a sign on them instead that says, “PLEASE PULL ME OVER!!!”

Not saying it’s right, it’s not.

@minnesotablizzard:

Where did it say they smelled the joints in the trunk? When I read, it just said the smelled marijuana. Maybe he had smoked in the car recently. Smell lingers.

@lilrob10201:

Agree completely. But until that happens, you have to make sure you don’t set yourself up to be abused by out of control cops.

By: joetoronto

joetoronto — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 22:36:16 +0000

Or it could have been avoided if he wasn’t so careless with his career.

Throw a tarp over him, he’s done.

By: minnesotablizzard

minnesotablizzard — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 22:00:45 +0000

This story is fishy you can’t smell joints coming from the trunk and I’m sure they would be in a bag as well. The idiot probably gave up his 4th amendment rights and allowed the cop to search the car with permission. All of this would have been avoided had he known his constitutional rights.

By: citizenstrange

citizenstrange — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 21:52:16 +0000

You would think that there would be a universal well known standard for how dark window tint could be and the shop that did the work would be held at least partially responsible or you could take your care to an inspection station to make sure it was within acceptable limits or something.

This is like the billionth story about an athlete getting pulled over for too dark tint and then getting busted for something else.

It seems like an easy excuse for the cops to go fishing without probably cause.

By: marty2019

marty2019 — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 21:51:01 +0000

If I were the Jags, I would wait until free agency is over before I cut him. That way, I wouldn’t reward him by making him an unrestricted free agent.

By: lilrob10201

lilrob10201 — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 21:47:42 +0000

LEGALIZE IT !!!!!

By: shackdelrio

shackdelrio — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 21:23:21 +0000

“He’s scheduled to be an exclusive rights free agent this offseason.”

Those exclusive rights will be waived.