OT: Alabama Teabagging Fan gets 2 years

If the ESPN story can be taken at face value, the sentence seems unduly harsh (not just "harsh").  The guy lost his job, goes to prison, and has a permanent record, a ton of notoriety, undoubted familial stress, and you have no sympathy for him?  C'mon man. 

The teabagging was an impulsive, stupid, disgusting, and criminal act to be sure.  Especially for a 32 year-old.  And deserving of punishment (in my mind on the order of a buttload of community service).  But if everyone who did an impulsive stupid act is an "asshole" for life, then I suppose the world is filled to the brim with assholes for life.   

It's probably worth noting that the victim here (who is undoubtedly a victim) got so shit-faced that he passed out in public and had no memory of even being at the scene of the crime.  The people who put burger wrappers on him are technically guilty of assault and battery.  Should we throw those "assholes" in jail too? 

Justice without context is no justice at all.

One of the best measures of a culture is how it treats those who are defenseless, such as the mentally ill, the terminally sick, or prisoners of war.

You didn't say specifically that the Alabama fan is young but it's worth pointing out that he is 33 years old and married with a kid. He's way beyond "young and stupid".

Something else worth noting is that there were a lot of people who witnessed the event and no one did anything to help the LSU fan who appeared to be dead. It is more evidence to my theory that the south sucks.

This is a very sad case of mob mentality or herd behavior. The part that bothers me the most is when what looks like an employee of wherever they are walks by while the guy is humping the LSU fan with his testicles clearly hanging out and does nothing, he even looks at whoever is filming this as well. Also, at no point does anyone bother to check if this guy has a pulse or not. I wouldn't do something like this to my worst enemy let alone a complete stranger because he's an opposing fan. For all those people saying this is too harsh, he was probably given this harsh a sentence knowing he would mostly likely get a lesser sentence through good behavior and opting to take some sort of program and not see as much jail time to learn that this isn't something you just get slapped on the wrist for. Kudos for having the balls (pun intended) to lay them down on this idiots proverbial face.

says 10 months if he completes a "boot camp" the judge recommended.

I'm ambivalent about the sentence.  If you read the story, his life has been turned upside down, and the guy has a kid.  On the other hand, would anyone be howling about a harsh sentence if the victim here was a passed-out drunk girl?  They might be howling the sentence wasn't steep enough.

Saying "don't get so wasted that you pass out in public" is saying that this guy was asking to be teabagged.

Again, gendering it here, is a drunk girl at a party asking to be sexually assaulted?

But in general for the thread....when did dudes all suddenly get the urge to rub their balls on another guys face? Anyone can see why you wouldn't want it done to you....but why would you WANT to do it?? When I was in college you didn't want to pass out around any markers. What changed that guys suddenly aren't getting enough male on male scrotum contact?

Touché

Maybe if you do it to your friend,  then you can just be considered a huge asshole playing a stupid prank (and hopefully have a friendship terminated).  However, I agree with the decision that putting your balls on a stranger's face should result in jail time....  though 2 years does seem excessive.

I believe in places in the north and possibly Michigan, once he gets done with whatever sentence he would receive, he would have to register as a sex offender. That's a much worse fate than working at the Olive Garden.