The Greg Hardy fella’ sure sounds like a swell guy!

CharlotteObserver.com

Check out the above article for full story on the incident regarding Carolina Panthers DE Greg Hardy and his girlfriend.

Here some excerpts from the article outlining Hardy’s (alleged)actions:

“Arrest warrants accuse the 6-foot-4, 290-pound Hardy of throwing the 24-year-old Holder to the floor and into a bathtub, slamming her against a futon and “strangling” her during an argument at his home.”

“Hardy also said he would kill her, the warrant stated, a threat “made in a manner and under circumstances which would cause a reasonable person to believe that the threat was likely to be carried out.””

“But in a complaint accompanying her request for a restraining order against Hardy, Holder added compelling details to her version of the fight. They include allegations that an enraged Hardy choked her with both hands and threatened to kill her.”

“At one point during their struggle, she said in her complaint that Hardy picked her up and threw her into a tub, then dragged her across the floor by her hair. As Hardy screamed threats, Holder said he lifted her over his head and threw her on a couch “covered in assault rifles and/or shotguns.”

“She said Hardy keeps a cache of 25-30 “AK-47s, automatic-looking weapons, shotguns, rifles and pistols” in his North Tryon condo and a former residence.”

“Holder said Hardy threatened to shoot her if “I went to the media or reported his assaults to anyone,” according to her complaint.”

There seem to be some question as to how the incident  began but, the way I see it, the “she started it defense” is something only a complete fucking asshole would use as justification to do the things Hardy, a Pro Bowl DE standing 6’4″ 279lbs, is accused of doing to a female who is literally less than half his size.

It amazes me that in the state of North Carolina, choking a woman with both hands then suplexing her onto a pile of loaded assault rifles and threatening to kill her, is only a misdemeanor and a $17,000 bond.  But what’s even more incredible is that nowhere does it say that Hardy had to surrender his arsenal.

(UPDATED 5/16/14  Well thank Thor that at least sanity finally showed its face and the following day, in an amendment made to his bond, the judge ordered Hardy to turn over his firearms.)

The NFL needs to starts getting a little more heavy-handed with its discipline when it comes to incidents like this (as well as the Ray Rice incident) and relax on the season-long bans for trivial (compared to this) things like marijuana.

Here is something that will help you put Roger Goodell’s and the NFL’s idea of discipline, and priorities, into proper perspective.   In 2006 Miami RB Sammy Morris got a 4-game ban for taking Sudafed, or, exactly as many as Ben Roethlisberger received after his second alleged sexual assault in 2010 and twice as many as Mike Vick got after serving his sentence for his role in a dog fighting ring.

Somebody needs to inform Roger Goodell, the 32 owners and the NFLPA as well, that taking over-the-counter cold medicine and (allegedly) sexually assualting a woman (twice), murdering dogs and/or choking/punching females are transgressions which are not all created equal.