The other day I wrote a post about a likely candidate for an anger class – a Florida man who was arrested for among other things resisting arrest. Unfortunately, there was no other information available save for a mug shot of the man and a can of red bull.
Now, thanks to the intrepid journalist skills of Frank Cerabino of the Palm Beach Post News, the full story can be told.
The name of our anger class candidate is Richard Jeffus and his is a complicated tale. Turns out that his team, the Texas Longhorns was playing Rice on the day in question and to soothe his nerves during the game he downed a few rum and cokes along with a few Red Bulls. Describing the game, Jeffus said “You know, when you root for a school like Texas, you can’t just win, you’ve got to win big,” he said. “And they only beat Rice by 12 points. Football’s one of the few things that get me nervous.” It turns out the Longhorns didn’t cover the spread so there may have been more riding on the final score than Texas winning that got Jeffus nervous.
So after the game it was time to take the dogs for a walk. Except that he and his wife own six dachshunds and the gated community they live in allow only four dogs so he has to drive to the nearby woods to let the dogs out. While there, a policewoman noticed him with his dogs off the leash and approached him. An argument ensued and, long story short, he fled the scene, flipped the officer the bird while he was being chased and was eventually subdued outside his home.
All of this underscores my point about stimulants or alcohol and anger class: they narrow your ability to make sense of what’s happening and make you much more likely to act in a way that will land you in an anger class. Even Jeffus (sort of) agrees with me – “I don’t have an anger management problem, but that Red Bull must have put me on a real high emotional level.”
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