Two Cal Football Players Arrested For Robbery Via Toy Gun

And now a piece of serious news, kind of:

On the night of September 30, 2008, two Cal football players, RJ Garrett and Gary Doxy, have been arrested on grounds of entering Clark Kerr Campus and holding up Jonathan McGraw-Bentley and Steve Giahos at BB gun point in an attempted robbery. Clark Kerr is a dormitory located off campus known for housing several athletes of different sports.

According to the Daily Californian, the attempted robbery was made in retaliation to racial slurs made against Garrett and Doxy’s friends. Upon hearing about the slurs, Garrett and Doxy countered with the attempted robbery. Only problem was that they tried to rob the wrong guys.

The slurs in question were made by members of the Crew Team. Bentley and Giahos are also members of the Cal Crew Team. However, they were not the ones who hurled the insults at Garrett and Doxy’s acquaintances, and in a case of mistaken identity, they became the targets.

Immediately after the arrest, Garrett was dismissed from the team. Doxy was already dismissed from the team earlier in the summer.

Though some would question why McGraw Bentley and Giahos didn’t notice that they were being held up by a BB gun, I must attest that those things look damn real sometimes and also they hurt like a bitch. Certainly the price to prevent those little welts was worth whatever they lost in the attempted robbery.

For more details on the story, head over to the Daily Cal.