Improper Enforcement Of Man Law

Purdue RB Sean Matti's death ruled an accidental drowning!

When I was a kid growing up in Gary, In. my parents would always tell me not to hang out with friends that wouldn't watch my back. It's dangerous out there in those streets, they would say, and anything could happen. So the rule was always the same, if you're not down for your boy get out of the car. If we were together it applied in all situations!

Apparently, the kid’s that were with Purdue football player Sean Matti on Sunday didn't get that lesson growing up because state conservation officers say the Shoreview, Minn., native was last seen about 5 p.m. Sunday and that friends spent six hours looking for him before calling the police. What? Stop right there bruh!

Your boy comes up missing while swimming and you wait six hours to call the police? Where's Chris Carter, Tom Jackson and Mike Ditka when you need them? C'mon Man! Six hours? Now all legitimate reports say that they were are a party. Well… college students don't party without alcohol, let’s be straight up. So I'm going to speculate using my past experience as a college student. His friends probably weren't looking for him for six hours. They probably didn't realize that he was missing until six hours later or until they sobered up.

Either way everybody flunks the friend test! No way does your boy come up missing in water and you don't immediately call the authorities after looking for him for let's say 10 minutes, 15 at the most! What kind of friends wait six hours to press the panic button on an emergency? That should be a crime all to itself. It should be a felony to allow your friend to go missing for six hours before you respond. That should go under the category of homeboy neglect a class D felony.

You can't explain that logic under any circumstances. Everyone should have been arrested. See, it probably took six hours to get the story straight so that they could call the authorities. That whole situation is shady. It's like some kid telling his parents while visiting him in jail, "I wasn't stealing the car, I was just driving it around to keep it warm for some guy I've never met." I want all of the police that believes those kids were looking for Sean for six hours to stand on their heads.

Gross negligence on everyone's part. With friends like that who needs enemies? Authorities did find the body of 22-year-old Sean Matti in a northern Indiana lake two days after he was last seen about 20 yards from shore. Autopsy and blood test results are pending.

I hope we all can learn from a tragedy like this. It's a shame that a 22-year-old kid has to lose his life while partying with friends because several common sense man laws were broken. A) Whoever was with the kid didn't look out for him and B) Whoever was with the kid didn't look out for him. Drink Responsibly isn't just a marketing slogan for selling alcohol. It's a real statement that should be adhered to at all times because if some one had been responsible this kid wouldn't have been out in the water for six hours before the authorities were called.

Holla At Ya Boy!
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Information from the Associated Press was used in this article.