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Spart43 · Post by **Spart43** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 8:44 am

Anyone else see this? Anyone know how he is doing?

From the toledo blade April 19th.

BGSU player charged with disorderly conduct

FROM BLADE STAFF

BOWLING GREEN - A returning starter for Bowling Green State University's football team was taken to the Wood County jail early Sunday after police found him in a downtown bar so intoxicated he needed help to stand.
Theodore "Teddy'' Piepkow, 21, of Clark Lake, Mich., was charged with disorderly conduct, a minor misdemeanor. The junior linebacker had played for the Falcons at a spring game Saturday afternoon at BGSU.

According to Bowling Green police, Peipkow was "unresponsive'' to an officer at the Uptown/Downtown bar on North Main Street shortly after 2 a.m. Sunday. He "needed assistance to stand and could not speak,'' the report states.

A pre-trial hearing in the case has been set for May 25 in Bowling Green Municipal Court.

golfertk14 · Post by **golfertk14** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 8:51 am

i heard a rumor about this but I didn't know if it was true or not. My facts are looser then somebody's intestines three days after they ate a deep-fried snickers bar.

Class of 61 · Post by **Class of 61** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 10:29 am

Spart43 wrote:Anyone else see this? Anyone know how he is doing?

From the toledo blade April 19th.

BGSU player charged with disorderly conduct

FROM BLADE STAFF

BOWLING GREEN - A returning starter for Bowling Green State University's football team was taken to the Wood County jail early Sunday after police found him in a downtown bar so intoxicated he needed help to stand.
Theodore "Teddy'' Piepkow, 21, of Clark Lake, Mich., was charged with disorderly conduct, a minor misdemeanor. The junior linebacker had played for the Falcons at a spring game Saturday afternoon at BGSU.

According to Bowling Green police, Peipkow was "unresponsive'' to an officer at the Uptown/Downtown bar on North Main Street shortly after 2 a.m. Sunday. He "needed assistance to stand and could not speak,'' the report states.

A pre-trial hearing in the case has been set for May 25 in Bowling Green Municipal Court.

Spart,
I'd hope this wasn't true, because a more polite and well mannered kid I've never met...Congratulated him after the game...his response? " Thanks, and thanks for coming to see us play". As someone who basically doesn't drink, it upsets me to see that kids seem to think the only way to have fun is to get hammered.... hopefully, this will be a good lesson for Teddy and won't be held against him too much...but if I were a coach, and after last year's "debacle" with a D-lineman, don't know how much patience I'd have.

1987alum · Post by **1987alum** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 10:37 am

61:

College kids will be college kids, I guess. But I have to agree with you that i don't know that I'd have a lot of patience with this sort of thing. I'm especially concerned when our upperclassmen - seniors in particular - are cited for this type of behavior. They are the leaders and should be setting the standard, leading by example.

Class of 61 wrote:
Spart43 wrote:Anyone else see this? Anyone know how he is doing?

From the toledo blade April 19th.

BGSU player charged with disorderly conduct

FROM BLADE STAFF

BOWLING GREEN - A returning starter for Bowling Green State University's football team was taken to the Wood County jail early Sunday after police found him in a downtown bar so intoxicated he needed help to stand.
Theodore "Teddy'' Piepkow, 21, of Clark Lake, Mich., was charged with disorderly conduct, a minor misdemeanor. The junior linebacker had played for the Falcons at a spring game Saturday afternoon at BGSU.

According to Bowling Green police, Peipkow was "unresponsive'' to an officer at the Uptown/Downtown bar on North Main Street shortly after 2 a.m. Sunday. He "needed assistance to stand and could not speak,'' the report states.

A pre-trial hearing in the case has been set for May 25 in Bowling Green Municipal Court.
Spart,
I'd hope this wasn't true, because a more polite and well mannered kid I've never met...Congratulated him after the game...his response? " Thanks, and thanks for coming to see us play". As someone who basically doesn't drink, it upsets me to see that kids seem to think the only way to have fun is to get hammered.... hopefully, this will be a good lesson for Teddy and won't be held against him too much...but if I were a coach, and after last year's "debacle" with a D-lineman, don't know how much patience I'd have.

Schadenfreude · Post by **Schadenfreude** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 10:40 am

I don't really grasp why he was charged with a crime.

Perhaps it was closing time, time to clear the bar, and Teddy was unable to walk out of there on his own?

I hope Brandon doesn't overreact. Heck, I hope he doesn't react -- aside from having a sit down with Teddy.

BGBreeze · Post by **BGBreeze** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 10:43 am

Since when did becoming "hammered" equal disorderly conduct? If the guy needed help standing I don't know how you can become disorderly

Boys will be boys! I am sure he has learned from this and only gets hammered at parties next time.

Class of 61 · Post by **Class of 61** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 10:48 am

Schadenfreude wrote:I don't really grasp why he was charged with a crime.

Perhaps it was closing time, time to clear the bar, and Teddy was unable to walk out of there on his own?

I hope Brandon doesn't overreact. Heck, I hope he doesn't react -- aside from having a sit down with Teddy.

Schad,
Afraid I can't agree with you on this one....If I'm the coach, and I've got kids so drunk they are "unresponsive and need help to stand", we're beyond the point of having a beer or two. Teddy's a great kid, as I've already mentioned, and great kids DO make mistakes, but a SENIOR needs to have developed at least a LITTLE common sense by now.... and I don't buy the "college kids will be college kids" bit... because, as a HS guidance counselor, I had to deal with HS kids being HS kids too....sorry, but I can't buy into this one.

Salsa · Post by **Salsa** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 10:57 am

I'm a drinker--sometimes too much.

But it's clear that binge drinking is becoming more and more of a problem on college campuses across the country.

"I drink therefore I am"--Come on now!!

Flipper · Post by **Flipper** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 11:00 am

WARNING---Speculative post ahead.---WARNING

My gut reaction (based on my own experience and the experiences of those around me) is that Piepkow ingested some home made GHB. It's really hard to gauge the potency of a drug that someone has literally cooked up in the bathtub. It's really easy to OD on a substance made with quality control measures that don't go much beyond the use of "scrubbing bubbles" prior to manufacture.

GHB is nothing to fool with kids. IF and this is a huge IF , if Piepkow did indeed fall victim to an unintentional GHB overdose (and it's possible to have this colorless liquid added to a drink without your knowledge) he's lucky to be alive.

hammb · Post by **hammb** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 11:05 am

Judge Snyder, motion to declare a writ of "boys will be boys."

I'm sorry, but to me this is a non story. It is the offseason, school is not even in session. I have no problem if Teddy (who is 21) wants to go out and get trashed during his summer break. Lord knows I've done it many times, and I'm sure most of us have, especially when we were in college.

I'm not even sure how he actually got charged with a crime. If he was too drunk to walk, how was he being disorderly!?

I dunno...

Falconfreak90 · Post by **Falconfreak90** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 11:11 am

Damn. Not Teddy. Aw man. He's my fave defensive player and, like Class of 61 said, a great kid. Always so polite and thankful for people coming to watch BG play.

I cannot rail on him cuz I got hammered so many times in college it wasn't funny. And it still isn't. Talk about time, $$$ and brain cells wasted!
It ain't worth it. But I thought it was the bomb and thing to do back then...

Public intoxication is a misdemeanor crime....whether we agree with it or not. I've been charged with that before.

I must agree with the others about Teddy being a Senior AND a captain. That calls for much more leadership and living by example.
Hopefully Teddy will get this straightened out, deal with the consequences and get back on track. We CANNOT afford to not have him on the field.

Flipper · Post by **Flipper** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 11:14 am

I think the charge of "disorderly conduct" is broader than just loud or physically demonstrative behavoir. I guess the only sure way to judge would be to pull the police report and see what the exact charge is and then xref the Ohio revised code to see if the charge fits.

Dayons_Den · Post by **Dayons_Den** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 11:30 am

I would also point out that perhaps because of playing in the Spring Game his bodied was drained of its normal levels because of not having a "full game" session in a while and the affects of a few beers and a few shots is then magnified.

transfer2BGSU · Post by **transfer2BGSU** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 11:41 am

Excuses, excuses.

Redwingtom · Post by **Redwingtom** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 11:50 am

Suspend him for three games and do it right quick. We are not Toledo. Regardless of his legal right to drink, he is a representative of the University AT ALL TIMES and should be dealt with accordingly.

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