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Here's a disturbing story from the murky swamps of Gainesville. Jamar Hornsby, a 21-year-old safety for the Florida Gators, has turned himself in to authorities after illegal use of a credit card. Unlike most other slimy college athletes guilty of credit card fraud, Hornsby's single-handedly guaranteed a first ballot nomination in the Scumbag Hall of Fame with his transgression. Turns out the credit card he was using was Ashley Slonina's a former U of F student killed in a motorcycle accident last year.
According to the AP, "It's not immediately clear how he got Ashley Slonina's credit card. Slonina, also a University of Florida student, died in a motorcycle accident in 2007 along with another football player, redshirt freshman Michael Guilford."
Yeah, Hornsby appears to be kind of a heartless dick. Enjoy playing safety at junior college next year. At least he'd actually get a chance to start there.
Florida player charged for using dead girl's credit card [SI]
Gators' safety Jamar Hornsby charged with using dead girl's credit card [Orlando Sentinel]
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Go Gators!
/wait, nevermind
It's not immediately clear how he got Ashley Slonina's credit card.
Has Doug Gottlieb been near Gaisville recently?
This happened on a CSI: Miami episode.
/No shit, I actually watched it.
The important question is, how does Doug Gottlieb feel about these allegations?
Turns out the credit card he was using was Ashley Slonina's a former U of F student killed in a motorcycle accident last year.
Well it's not like Ashley was going to be needing it anytime soon....
Why is Martin Lawr....
...can't do it. This dude is a dick
@MattinglysSideburns:
That's where he got the idea - he's a huge Natalia Boa Vista fan.
This really tarnishes "MeSoHornsby", no?
Tim Tebow will be praying for his soul!
@Pittsburgh Sports and Mini Ponies:
and considering where you're at, you should recognize that he looks far more like Plax than like Martin.
Weirder still, he would only use the card while wearing Payne Stewart's knickers.
SHOTY Candidate.
What's Shanoff take on this?
Just another example of why I think dead girls shouldn't be allowed to get credit cards...
goodbye gainesville,
hellooooooooooo FAMU
"If you needed money, broheim, why didn't you just ask?"
-Every Gators grad over the age of 40
She dead dawg
so there's an open scholarship at UF?
[begin football training montage"
performed to Sammy Hagar's "Over the Top]
@blackheartededitor: And a Cory Lidle jersey?
There are other people at stake here, too. For instance, if Hornsby goes to prison, what happens to the rest of The Range?
Jamar Hornsby robbed a dead person, but Tim Tebow brought a few back to life, so we're still in positive karmic territory here.
WHy didn't the girl's parents cancel all her credit cards.
@Barry Lutz: Why not, they apparently can vote.
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@blackheartededitor: He also used Jayson Williams' chauffeur's car to get to the store
@J-No:
Or Tebow could put some of his newfound surgical skills to use.
@DennyCrane: Doesn't matter. The weather is always fair in Shanoff-land.
Hornsby should have hid in Tebow's sisters tits.
Yeah, Hornsby appears to be kind of a heartless dick. Enjoy playing safety at Tallahassee next year. At least he'd actually get a chance to start there.
Fixed.
oops
I can see how he'd be easily mistaken for an Ashley.
@Get Him A Body Bag, Yeah!: And he circumcised them as part of the deal.
@ftrain: More importantly: What's Ned's take on this?
Until these credit card companies stop giving credit to anyone with a pulse....oh, my bad.
@Gourmet Spud: that's just the way it is.
@Stev D: Some things will never change.
With Hornsby's credit card grift fully exposed, he can move on to his next big scam... introducing himself to women as Plaxico Burress.
How is this more heartless than stealing the identity of a living person, who then has to go through the incredible pain to get it back?
It gets worse - Slonina was apparently starting CB Joe Haden's girlfriend, and Hornsby got the credit card while he and Haden were cleaning out her apartment.
"Yeah, sorry about your dead girlfriend man, that must be rough...*yoink*"
@DeepFriar: winner takes it all!
loser takes the fall!
time to take it over the top...
yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!
"Wow, the bar really has been lowered for illegal card use, hasn't it?"
--1996 & 2002 Villanova Wildcats
The jokes on CitiBank, he's already maxed out Len Bias' Visa.
Unlike most other SEC athletes guilty of credit card fraud...
/Fixed
@ftrain: Don't whistle him up. Weintraub is quite enough.
@Schluby: With Hornsby's credit card grift fully exposed, he can move on to his next big scam... introducing himself to cellmates as Plaxico Burress.
/convict'd
@cromartie: couldn't an argument be made that he's less of a dick because by using the credit card of a deceased person he didn't expose the rightful owner to years of bad credit/debt she didn't create?
Also? Awesome brain asplode comments on the story.
"He needs to go. GO GATORS! (that is)"
/parentheticals mine
@Get Him A Body Bag, Yeah!: truly tasteless
/Bissinger'd
Well, what was he supposed to do now that Aaliyah's checkbook ran out?
Jean shorts aren't cheap.
Gotta suck when your expiration date comes before your credit card's...
All correspondence from Jamar will now be signed,
Jamar Hornsby
Scumbag Hall of Fame 2008
At least he didn't buy a new bong from Texas teenagers on ebay...UGH!
/not on ebay,but true story is worse
Meanwhile, Christian Okoye and Samkon Gado have friends in the Nigerian royal family with several million dollars tied up in U.S. banks and need your help to get the money! Of course, you'll get to keep a hefty percentage! All you need to do is send them your social security number so they can fill out the forms. Easy peasy!
recruit more tebows... recruit less negroes.
- rushlimbaughdontcareaboutblackpeople08
@kjack: Yeah, but SS#'s get re-used, so he was messing with some future holder of that number.
@Dany Heatley Speedwagon: Or,
Jamar Hornsby #24597-08 Indian River Correctional Institution.
i'm saddened by this news.
its not something the Gators can blame on a Zook kid. It's the first Meyer guy. Get rid of him and be a man - be 40.
I'm pretty sure that I read about this in a Tom Wolfe novel. But I thought the guy's name was Conrad?
@OlsenTwinsValueMenu: Wow. I'd give you a +1, but I don't want to join you on Satan's radar.
you know as an FSU fan, this is where I would normally say something about the type of people who go to UF and Miami, but with some of the things the FSU players have been involved with lately, I'll just take the high road and say that the Gators suck.
oh wait. ronnie wilson. right.
FSU will use him.
/shamed gator
The irony is that his great-grandfather Rogers Hornsby was a KKK member with a gambling problem.
@BigPhillyMan: but the gators really don't suck. sure it probably sucks to be losing to the gators year in and year out. but that doesn't make them suck.
lets be honest - the only thing that sucks is weatherford. weatherford is the epitome of sucks.
Well there is something good that can come out of this...
At least Vick will finally get a safety that he can't read and who he can throw to on command.
Florida has a football team?