Thursday, July 24, 2008

Drunk PSU Student Arrested In Football Building Wearing Helmet and Holding Alamo Bowl Trophy


We once had a friend visit us in college who got so drunk he opened our closet door, thinking it was for the bathroom, and proceeded to urinated in our laundry bag. When finished he turned and said "Good night Vlade Fucking Divac". That was a pretty decent drunken college story, but it is about a million times lamer than this:

Daniel J. Costenbader, a junior electrical engineering major at Penn State, had a little too much fun (or not enough if you ask an Ohio State fan) celebrating his 21st birthday. The student entered the Lasch Football Building on Thursday morning causing approximately $5,000 worth of damage all while wearing a football helmet. When police found Costenbader, who called the cops earlier to report a fight (so he pretty much got himself busted), he was waving what was believed to be a replica of the Alamo trophy.

Here are some more highlights,

  • Costenbader told police he was on his way back to his Toftrees apartment when he decided to hop the fence onto the football practice field. He told police he stripped to his boxer shorts and began running around the field, hitting tackling dummies.
  • Costenbader allegedly damaged a window in the training office by throwing weights at it, flipped two tables and two trampolines in the training room and broke a window in the south lobby.
  • Costenbader was taken into custody while in the women's bathroom.
Coach Joe Paterno, who found out about the incident from his wife, told members of the media,
My wife was all upset, because the windows were broken. I guess there's a sizable amount of damage. It's unfortunate. It's so unnecessary.
Unnecessary maybe, unfortunate absolutely not.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Maybe he should try picking up a book for once. Seems like PSU wasn't too hesitant in offering him a scholarship. Let's see what the kid has in his head (unless he really needs that helmet to keep what's left in his skull from escaping).

Ditch college athletics, focus on college academics (as it should be and was originally intended). It just might help our country be reminding us that economic reality is attained not by yard sticks but by professional citizens.

Erik said...

Did you even read the story, you anonymous buffoon? It was an electrical engineering major who did this. Nowhere did it say this was someone on an athletic scholarship. Yes, if there were no college athletics, he couldn't've damaged the football offices, or worn a helmet.

Reading comprehension is a pretty useful skill to have, anonymous, especially if you want to be a "professional citizen," whatever that may be. Perhaps remedial night school classes will help you in that regard.

noeylove112 said...

Anonymous definitely is not attending Penn St. I would say he attends some type of life skills class where they study how to shop in grocry stores, phone skills, kitchen and household safety i.e. don't stick metal odjects into electrical outletc, etc. This is what I think he means by "profesional citizen".

Dude take off the helicopter hat and reread the story.