September 28, 2005
Clayton charged with battery; allegedly ran over campus parking services employee
Parking on any college campus in America can be a frustrating and trying experience. Just ask Kansas State standout running back Thomas Clayton.
Clayton was charged yesterday with Class B misdomeanor battery, after allegedly hitting a university parking services employee with his car.
The charges stem from an incident Sept. 16, when Clayton drove away after a university parking services employee was waiting for a wheel lock to be delivered so he could prevent Clayton from leaving. According to parking services assistant director Jeff Barnes, Clayton’s car hit parking services employee James Seymour. Seymour wasn’t injured. Later, Clayton was arrested by Riley County Police.
Clayton told the media the incident stemmed from the fact that his license plate had previously fallen off the car and was in the trunk. He denied hitting anyone and said he hopes to start Saturday's game against Oklahoma.
Comments:
posted on September 29, 2005 9:10 AM — 168.166.54.11 — link — abuse?Robert Knodell said:
After watching Clayton run the football early this season, I can say he has "run over" plenty of people on the field without injuring them.
However, perhaps "ran into him" would be a better phrase for this.
blah said:
posted on September 29, 2005 4:51 PM — 63.148.74.194 — link — abuse?
this is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. If anyone else knows who parking attendants are, there the little a-holes, who never had any social skills to get along with anyone, so they take these posistions of "power" similar to a Mall security guard, to enact revenge on those stereotypes of people who supposedly kept them down their whole life.
As an individual who has dealt with this exact parking attendant, Clayton deserves nothing but an apology from the Parking loser. Word on the street is that Clayton got all three tickets required to get his boot from the same attendent in like a 15 minute time period. So this goober, sees his chance to mess with a popular, promising athlete, & he jumped on it.
The attendent waited the required five minutes between tickets to give him the next one. So when Clayton comes out, there's no boot on his car, just some dude with a name badge and a reflective vest telling him he can't leave and he stands behind his car. I mean isn't that unlawful detainment? This guy's a parking attendent, not a cop. He has no right to try and keep him there. He has no real power other than issuing tickets. If they wanted him to detain people until the cops came, they would have given him a gun, or at least a Mag-Lite. I don't know, this is a totally ridiculous thing for him to get suspended for, the dude didn't even get hurt, the hospital couldn't not find any evidence that he was hit (no bruise, cuts, nothing). Parking dude should be fired for overstepping his role.
posted on September 29, 2005 10:31 PM — link — abuse?
Even the mild-mannered Willie Simmons wound up in a "confrontation" with a parking enforcement officer (a.k.a. Ticket Witch) at Clemson.
Nobrainer said:
posted on September 29, 2005 9:07 AM — 128.143.47.10 — link — abuse?Maybe it's just a matter of semantics, but hitting and not injuring someone with your car is a far cry from running them over.