Police ID Boy That Akon Tossed Off
Then buzz it up
June 7th, 2007 at 16:27 by Stuart Heritage
When someone annoys us, we usually find that the best way to deal with them is to hurl them into a crowd. Actually that's a lie - we scuttle off and anonymously demean them on the internet - but at least Akon is taking this people-tossing thing seriously.
Obviously, Akon reasons, people tend to be a bit heavy sometimes, so he'll only throw children into crowds. And not girls, either, because he'd rather dry-hump them. But if you're a boy under the age of 16 who somehow enrages Akon, lordy are you ever gonna get it - just as the 15-year-old boy who Akon tossed into the crowd at a recent show has discovered. But now the game might be up for Akon, because police have identified the boy and are looking into pressing charges against the rapper. Akon needn't worry, though - not only do his attorneys deny that he did anything wrong, but also Akon has threatened to hurl the Earth into the Sun if any police so much as come near him.
It doesn't take a genius to work out that all of Akon's songs are, at some level, about angrily throwing boys into a crowd of people. There's Lonely, which Akon wrote when he felt lonely after throwing a boy into a crowd; there's Smack That, about Akon smacking a girl on the head with a boy he's just thrown into a crowd; and there's Belly Dancer, a song that was originally called I Like Throwing Boys Into Crowds Of People And I Don't Care Who Knows.
It also doesn't take a genius to work out that Akon is perhaps the stupidest rapper around at the moment. After the furore caused when Akon dry-humped the 15-year-old daughter of a pastor onstage at a show last month, you'd have expected that Akon would have wanted to lay low and play by the rules for a while until everything blew over - but no. Instead, as we reported yesterday, at a recent show in Fishkill, New York Akon decided to react to the fairly common concert occurrence of a missile being weakly thrown towards the stage by having the thrower dragged onstage by a security guard so that Akon could toss him off the stage into the crowd.
At the time, police were keen to identify the boy to see if he wanted to press charges against Akon, and now it seems as if they've got their boy - a 15-year-old from Harriman, Orange County whose mother got in touch with the police. Also contacting the police was Abby Rosa, a 26-year-old woman who was hit on the head by Akon's tossed boy so hard that her vision blurred and she was later diagnosed with concussion. It's a sticky situation for Akon, make no mistake - or at least it would be had Akon's attorneys not absolutely refuted claims that their client had done anything wrong. The Poughkeepsie Journal reports:
Akon's attorney, Benjamin Brafman of Manhattan, released a statement Wednesday evening saying the incident at Dutchess Stadium offers no basis for criminal charges. "Given the information that we have reviewed to date, it does not appear to us that Akon was involved in any criminal conduct whatsoever," the statement said. "We are prepared to fully cooperate with any law enforcement agency that may be investigating this incident. We are confident that after a thorough investigation it will be apparent that no criminal prosecution of Akon is warranted."
We'll be watching developments of the police's investigation against Akon very closely, not because we're interested or because we want to see Akon get banged up, but because the second that the police decide that throwing boys isn't something that warrants a criminal prosecution we're going to hotfoot it down to the local school to start hurling boys around willy-nilly. Think you can laugh at our haircut now do you, kids? Do you? Huh?
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June 7th, 2007 at 10:36 pm
I for one, think Akon didn’t do anything wrong… the only thing I think he should apologize to is the people the kid landed on. As far as the kid, if you’re 15 should be old enough to understand right from wrong. You should understand that its wrong to throw things at people, you dont know if that was a glass soda bottle or what which classifies as an assault- I dont know about you, but when I was 15 I could throw a bottle or something else hard enough to cause damage. I think it was a swift and reasonable for of justice, maybe not in you’re traditional sense of it - but justice none-the-less.
June 8th, 2007 at 7:06 am
OK. Akon is an adult. 15yo boy is not. As it stands today, adults aren’t supposed to do physically injurious things to boys (or bystanders). So Jeff says throwing a 15yo from a stage into an audience or ground is OK? How about if he was 14 years old? How about 12 years old? 10? 8? How about if the 15yo landed on his head, broke his neck, and was paralyzed. Still OK? How about if the 15yo landed on the woman’s head and broke her neck leaving her paralyzed? That’s OK too?
Akon should be prosecuted both for assaulting the 15yo and for the injury caused to the woman. The 15yo threw something at Akon that missed. Don’t know what it was but a missed object is hardly equal to throwing him from above a stage down on to the ground where he might actually break his back, neck or whatever. Would you be pleased if that were your own 15yo son?
June 11th, 2007 at 4:39 am
Preston, I’ll try and respond to each question/statement separately… The count down of age works both ways, how about if he was 16 or 17 or 18? and then him being a ‘legal adult’? You seem to be picking and choosing when “what if” arguments come in to play. In the same fashion that the object didn’t hit Akon or cause damage, neither did the fall. If the fall had caused severe damage I would be singing a different tune much in the same way that if the bottle/object had hit and knocked Akon unconcious, Im sure you would be too. Ofcourse, I wouldn’t be pleased if it were my own child, however, the way things played out - I would leave it as is and hope he learned his lesson.
June 15th, 2007 at 4:22 pm
Both Jeff and Preston are missing the point.
If someone, who happens to be 100 pounds of arrogant 15 year old kid who enjoys crappy music, throws the first blow, they’re up for charges, yes. But you, being a 200 pound angry rich horrible rapper with a good physique decides to retaliate by throwing them off of a stage with an over the head slam reminicent of WWE, you have upped the ante to the point that its no longer a “wash”.
Let me put this into terms Jeff might understand. You’re sitting in your trailer watching Cops. Your baby’s mama comes out of the bedroom wondering why its 2 o’clock on a Monday and you’re not working. She proceeds to slap you once or twice. At this point, you can call the Highway Patrol and press charges, or, you can hit her back and give her some upcommins. You hit her back, give her the upcommins and voila! You’re being hauled off. Congrats.
November 30th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
Yeah, really reasonable solution. Had this been a parent who’s child threw something in their home and they were turned in to police for body slamming them, it’d be all over. Throwing a child is not an exceptable solution, especially into a crow of others. It may have been a bottle or something damaging, but it could have just been a fruit. Either way there’s no report of anyone being hurt by this ignorant kid. But two kids were hurt by the grown man. This is why decent black people still struggle. Because of niggers like this. Thugs with too much money have too much power. They’re all over in music and sports. Over paid, under educated, THUGS.
December 15th, 2007 at 6:04 am
You’ve gone a bit off the point. The object was a plastic disc wsnt it? Some kid once through a snowball with a rock in at my eye. Your initial reaction is anger, if your a man in front of thousands of people your going to be annoyed if some1 embarrasses you. Back to my point when i was hit with this snowball i was 18 i saw this kid fair enough i could see very well the first thing i do is react not go can i see your driving licensce and registration. Akon made a mistake and so did the boy the real victim is the unrelated girl. That is the major issue. I think it goes without sayin someones gna get paid out of it though.
January 28th, 2008 at 9:14 am
From what I’ve read and saw the kid threw a frisbie at Akon which didnt even hit or even pass that close to him.
Akon is a singer, and as such people will always throw stuff on stage, cups, plastic bottles, all sorts of things. I’ve never heard of a singer going after a fan to throw him off stage.
I remember when the Rolling Stones went to Toronto and I’ve read Justin Timberlake did the oppening and he was thrown tomatos, and plastic cups, and he left stage because of it.
On this Akon asked people to point the kid out and his bouncers to go and get him, and in the meanwhile taking his shirt off basically to show off.
On this he has 2 lawsuits one from the kid’s parents for assault causing bodily harm, and another one from a woman bystander that got her vision blurred and a concussion,
to cause a concaussion like like i bet the woman fell with the kid on her and banged her head on the floor, which could’ve been a lot worse causing internal bleeding and the woman to die.
It’s illegal to hit anyone, unless defending your self, and since the kid didn’t even hit him, he basically threw him off stage to show off as *self-defence*? asking his body-guards to get the kid and causing him pain and a bystander, isn’t self-defense in any country in this world. Which basically means, he has 2 choices, pay the kid to go away quietly, and get rid of prison, or face up to a year in prison even with good behaviour and being a celebrity doing only 25% of the time that’s still 3 months in prison, enough for him to get his ass raped in jail, and learn not to do shit like this again, and there he’ll be throw too but wont be off stages, but from dick to dick and his mic damn sure wont have speakers attached :D.
Hope he gets that 1 year in jail.
These celebrities gotta learn they’re not above the law
July 17th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
How can you compare hitting a woman with a 15yr old kid throwing a paper ball at someone? I’ve seen a video taken from another angle and it bounces off Akon so weakly its actually funny. Then he takes off his shirt and chains, trying to show off what a “man” he is to the crowd and then throws the kid in the public. What a manly way to react to such a situation, huh? He could have just sent him out of the concert and not do such a dumbass thing like he did.
He deserves to get sewed and go to jail… he should be used to living in a cell, anyways.