Ossi Vaananen Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 Article: http://uproxx.com/sports/sean-avery-homeless-snapchat/ Tweet: Quote Sean Avery used to be a professional hockey player. He played his last game in December 2011 and formally announced his retirement the following March on the Bravo television program “Watch What Happens.” At 32, Avery’s career, which was better known for everything else but hockey, was over. Nearly five years later, after making a name for himself as a trash person on the ice, he may have cemented his legacy as a trash person off the ice as well. Avery is receiving much-deserved scorn for a Snapchat bit where he walks up to sleeping homeless people on the streets of New York, wakes them up and asks them for the time. Retired sports millionaires have many ways to fill the hours after a whirlwind career ends. Some go into broadcasting. Some go into coaching. Some start philanthropic endeavors. Some walk through Manhattan and film homeless people for their own amusement. Life is a rich tapestry. If you’re unfamiliar with Avery’s non-hockey work, here are a few highlights: • In 2007, Avery was fined $2,500 for incident involving Jason Blake of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Blake had been diagnosed with leukemia, and reports indicated that Avery used that in trash talk on the ice. • In 2008, Avery was suspended six games for saying NHL players love his “sloppy seconds” to reporters. At the time, Dion Phaneuf was dating Elisha Cuthbert, who used to date Avery, hence the comment from Avery. • Also in 2008, there was an incident with a fan that involved such graphic language that there’s no way to tease it here and keep this thing PG-13. But hey, sometimes things get said in the heat of the moment — although that doesn’t really apply to the scripted thing about sloppy seconds. Walking outside with the predetermined intention to make fun of homeless people is depraved. Although, the brilliant Avery has answer for anyone angry at him for the harassment of homeless people. Man, he’s like Jack McCoy and Will Hunting all rolled into one! “Your honor, if I may object forthwith to the prosecution’s claim of harassment, all due respect, based on this Google search, I must be making THREATS or DEMANDS for this to constitute the heretofore threshold of harassment, your honor. No further questions!” Just because something doesn’t rise to the criminal definition of harassment — although I’d love to see this play out in a courtroom — maybe the fact that you just did something that caused you to look up a legal definition is a time to pause for reflection. Asking a homeless person living on the street for the time is not the same as asking you for the time. A homeless person has nothing, and you know it; hence you’re asking them the question for a crappy laugh. This would be like hockey players walking up to you and asking you, “Do you know how to play hockey?” It’s funny because you were bad at it and just like the homeless person, you don’t have the answer. Buddy, you’re harassing homeless people. At least own that you’re being awful. Everyone else accepts it, even the people you’re mass retweeting to make it seem like everyone likes what you’re doing. This won’t be the last we hear from Avery, as he has a role in the upcoming movie Patriots Day, which is about the Boston Marathon bombings. Against all odds, Avery is playing a police officer, which goes against his personality in every way. Then again, maybe the role requires Avery to play a cop that’s distracted from his duty because he’s walking around creating Snapchat stories where he asks homeless people if they are in the race. Video: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1305019/Former-Ranger-Sean-Avery-harasses-homeless-people-NYC.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glory_Days Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 A piece of trash is a piece of trash. Glad he's out of the game, hopefully he loses what's left of his money and becomes homeless himself then some entitled jerk can come up to harass him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hairy Kneel Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 A-1 Douche Award goes to.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ojibwa72 Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 He needs to wake up the wrong one who will tune him in. Some hospital time would be nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HerrDrFunk Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 So a POS on the ice is a POS off the ice too....go figure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaintPatrick33 Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 LOL cue the sloppy seconds jokes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimberWolf Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 Douches gotta douche Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monty Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 So a professional jock acts a regular jock? I'm shocked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckyLuciano Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 His last snap he called a homeless guy bro and gave em 20 bucks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Screw Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 You got the time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocksterh8 Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 The Oliers have a position for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nucklehead Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 sounds right Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawksFan94 Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 #Harrasement lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxVerstappen33 Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 2 hours ago, HerrDrFunk said: So a POS on the ice is a POS off the ice too....go figure. Im not sure that people are getting the point. His claim is that beggars shake people down for money through manipulation. This is partly true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxVerstappen33 Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 1 minute ago, HawksFan94 said: #Harrasement lol When someone accosts you and asks you for money, it is a shakedown. They are relying on their poor appearance to persuade you into just paying them off so that they will go away. That is shakedown. It is not right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HerrDrFunk Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 3 minutes ago, LolClarkson said: Im not sure that people are getting the point. His claim is that beggars shake people down for money through manipulation. This is partly true. Lol...what? Just say "Sorry, don't have anything" and move on. Is that really that difficult? Even if Avery has some point...he's still a guy who's made millions going around hassling people who usually have very little. So yeah, I'm calling the guy a complete POS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxVerstappen33 Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 Just now, HerrDrFunk said: Lol...what? Just say "Sorry, don't have anything" and move on. Is that really that difficult? Even if Avery has some point...he's still a guy who's made millions going around hassling people who usually have very little. So yeah, I'm calling the guy a complete POS. Quote Lol...what? Just say "Sorry, don't have anything" and move on. Is that really that difficult? Sigh... So you've never dealt with beggars apparently. They stand in your way. They don't take no for an answer. They swear at you . They accuse you of lying on and on and on.. If they didn't make it uncomfortable, the shakedown would not work. Its a strange battle for Avery to pick yeah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HerrDrFunk Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 Just now, LolClarkson said: Sigh... So you've never dealt with beggars apparently. They stand in your way. They don't take no for an answer. They swear at you . They accuse you of lying on and on and on.. If they didn't make it uncomfortable, the shakedown would not work. Its a strange battle for Avery to pick yeah. Buddy, I work next to the DTES. In 3 years I've had one person not take no for an answer and when I walked off, that was it. I think it speaks a ton to Avery's character that rather than try and tackle the issue of homelessness, you know, so people don't have to pan handle (and offend your delicate sensibilities), he's choosing to harass homeless people instead. Seems about right if you look at Avery's past body of work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dral Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 30 minutes ago, LolClarkson said: When someone accosts you and asks you for money, it is a shakedown. They are relying on their poor appearance to persuade you into just paying them off so that they will go away. That is shakedown. It is not right. err, I don't ever feel like it's a shakedown... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckyLuciano Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 California, New York and 3rd world countries homeless will try to shake you down more often. In Calgary once a guy was hassling me and started hurling insults at my parents, I ended up giving him a shakedown so to speak of my own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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