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July 15, 2009
Champ Mountain Biker Caught with 400 Pounds of Marijuana: The life of Missy Giove, the holder of 14 national titles and one world championship as a mountain biker, is going downhill fast. She was busted last month with 400 pounds of marijuana and $1 million in cash. Longtime friend and fellow biker Craig Glaspell said the arrest is "not surprising" given her problems with authority, but added, "The fact she might be involved in some pretty heavy drug trafficking is the crazy thing." Giove was a unique figure in her sport with her dyed hair, known for wearing a dead piranha around her neck and putting her dead pet's ashes in her sports bra. She made the cover of Girlfriends Magazine in 2003, which named her to its "lesbian athlete hall of fame."
Where the hell was Missy when there was a dry spell around my parts? What a waste..not her but that 400lbs of grade A burn that's going to waste.
posted by BornIcon at 09:18 AM on July 16, 2009
I checked out that Girlfriends cover shot. I hope that's not friction tape. Yeow!
If you like to live tough, play hard, be around lots of hard core mommas and don't care about gourmet cuisine and fresh linen sheets, what better place could you be than federal prison? Round the clock fistfights and bed bumpin'.
If that doesn't work out, I hear that Tony Romo's available...
posted by beaverboard at 09:53 AM on July 16, 2009
Dude, where's my bike ?
posted by tommybiden at 11:13 AM on July 16, 2009
Staunch Drug Foe my ass.
Well, that's a matter of perspective, isn't it? Y'see, she was against using drugs, cuz that's bad, m'kay? She was not against selling drugs and making a profit from them. That's just capitalism, m'kay? And capitalism's good, m'kay?
Anyway, if I was in the business of selling something, I'd like the supply to be limited and the demand high. Nothing like good old-fashioned prohibition for that. Just ask the Kennedys!
posted by tahoemoj at 12:17 PM on July 16, 2009
If that doesn't work out, I hear that Tony Romo's available...
Step off my boy Romo! He likes thick girls.
posted by BornIcon at 01:19 PM on July 16, 2009
Days after her arrest, her public defender, Tim Austin, alleged the drugs were planted in Giove's possession, possibly by police.
So the defense is that someone, possibly the police, planted 400 lbs of pot in her possession? Hopefully she has a cousin named Vinny.
Let's say that was the case - the drugs were planted - did she also just happen to have one million in cash on her that very day?
posted by BoKnows at 01:21 PM on July 16, 2009
Let's say that was the case - the drugs were planted - did she also just happen to have one million in cash on her that very day?
That's easy to explain, she was headed to the store to grab some munchies.
posted by tommybiden at 02:01 PM on July 16, 2009
A dike on a bike, working on her third strike, did she smoke it in a pipe?, with the police she has a gripe, soon to be wearing prison stripes...YIKES.
posted by Atheist at 02:11 PM on July 16, 2009
Dude, dyke is not the preferred nomenclature. And besides, the dyke is not the issue, dude.
400 lbs of weed really tied the room together.
posted by WeedyMcSmokey at 05:38 PM on July 16, 2009
This isn't the fucking Indigo Girls, Walter. She had 400lbs. of weed, man.
and yes, it really tied the room together. Your roll.
posted by tahoemoj at 06:34 PM on July 16, 2009
someone, possibly the police, planted 400 lbs of pot in her possession?
I would be on the lookout for a large officer.
posted by yerfatma at 07:22 PM on July 16, 2009
....or Nate Newton.
posted by Ufez Jones at 08:35 PM on July 16, 2009
I don't know which one I would burn through first. 400 lbs of weed or $1M? I'm guessing the weed.
posted by smithnyiu at 08:57 PM on July 16, 2009
Is it just me or does she look a lot like the parking lot attendant from "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"
posted by slackerman at 09:29 PM on July 16, 2009
There was another magazine cover graced by Missy Giove, guess which one it was?
Staunch Drug Foe my ass.