did we know about this already? (Doughty cleared of sexual assault)

[Eddie_Shack]

If it's loose enough for barges, you must drop charges.

 

[Darkstone42]

I've had a few PMs about this, I thought I posted the story earlier in the season but maybe it slipped by. I will address it here, I'm not really sure if I should post it but I will do so. If any mods decide it's libel, feel free to remove it.

I've got a really good buddy who I went to high school with, who after graduation went on to get his law degree and land a pretty good job working for the DA in Los Angeles county. We still stay in touch, and as a big hockey fan he occasionally gives me scoops from out West (there isn't a big focus on California NHL teams here in Michigan).

Anyway, a few months ago, he called me and told me about a VERY weird story involved several members of the LA Kings. If I recall correctly, the case went to court but it was so bizarre and the evidence so circumstantial that it ended up as a mistrial. I don't know if any more details have come out, but at the time this is what my friend had been told. Remember, technically this is a rumor, and the story is EXTREMELY bizarre, like Bullshitting at the Barbershop bizarre, but my friend is pretty reliable and isn't the type to go feeding me crazy info just for the hell of it.

I won't mention any names, either, but I'm sure a quick(haha, get it?) Google search will produce some more info.

Anyway, there was a group of about 5-6 LA Kings hanging out at an LA nightclub last February, and while there weren't any eyewitnesses, there is a security camera (albeit grainy footage) showing a certain LA King exiting a private room at the club. Due to a malfunction in the camera system, they were unable to ascertain the time of day that he was seen leaving, and due to how crowded the club was they couldn't actually see when he entered. This is one of the reason why it got thrown out of court. But later that night, the police were called, and in that very room found a woman, stiff as a board, who looked like she'd been injected with some chemicals or something. I'm talking like X-Files shit, supposedly her skin had a weird, shiny, plastic-like quality, it sort of looked like that crazy tanning lady from NJ but very smooth. She was completely stiff, not like rigor mortis but almost petrified, and strangely enough the police put the time of death at a mere hours before discovery, so it wasn't like she had been there long. They sent a blood sample to the crime lab, and there were absolutely no anomalies, no chemicals, drugs, nothing, the only odd thing was an extremely high sugar content. Way more extreme than the blood sugar level of someone who is hypoglycemic, like off the charts. The police never did figure out the exact cause of death, the coroner basically chalked it up to old age, because the lady was born in 1937 (very strange, considering where they found her). Anyway, the family of the deceased pressed charges, but nothing ever came of it because the evidence was so circumstantial, apparently the prosecution believed they had really strong motive but they could never tie the individual player to the crime. I know this all sounds really weird, but this is pretty much verbatim what my friend told me, and he's not really the type to make shit like this up. Like I said, if you want to Google this, maybe there is more information, just search D PENNER V A JEMIMA.

How did I miss this before? This is gold!