The curling news is reporting that Canada's men’s gold medal wheelchair curling skip is facing criminal charges for allegedly trafficking black market Viagra. It is unclear yet whether or not our Paralympic champion was distributing the Chinese knock offs; and who these replicas were being sold to. I would be inclined to empathize with him if he was simply distributing the happy pills in the wheelchair curling community, where our athletes live life by the motto bigger, faster, harder. In Canada, our elite wheelchair athletes have a vitality and virility of life. That's why we bring home the gold.
Regretfully he admitted to authorities that his son distributed the pills at Vancouver nightclubs, so rightfully charges are warranted. Father gets picked up by the cops in the United States, and sells out his son? I am assuming this will lead to a plea bargain, because what prosecutor wants to take a man in a wheelchair to court because he had a dream of bringing cheap Viagra to the world. Do you think men in wheelchairs should be afforded the constitutional right to access cheap Viagra?
The good news is that Jim Armstrong now has a title for his autobiography, "Hurry Hard! Life in the fast lane of wheelchair curling".
Sorry, Iceman, I can't agree with you on this one. He was transporting a large quantity of illegally imported knock-offs from China across an international border for monetary gain. No matter how you look at it he committed a crime. Because this crime occurred in the US his penalty will be a stiff one (pun intended.)
ReplyDeleteAre you so sure that Jimmy A was wheeling when he picked up the pills he claimed he wasn't dealing? No mention in the original news story that he was in a chair!!
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