Meet my new hero: Sgt. James Atkins

by DCScrap, on 205th magazine

If you were a high school football coach, and say, your team had $10,000 laying around in a bank account for uniforms and equipment and such, what would you do with the money? Probably buy uniforms and equipment, right? See, that's where America lacks the creativity needed to stay ahead of the Japanese and Chinese. The correct answer is of course to go to a strip club and party it up.

Atkins and his wife "made numerous deposits of their own money" to the team's TD Banknorth account, the amounts Atkins allegedly withdrew illegally far surpassed his generosity.

Among them, "the withdrawal of $500 from an ATM right next door to the Squire men's club (in Revere) at 1 (o'clock) in the morning," [Prosecutor Edward] Beagan said.

Put a stickpin in the Squire men's club as a place I want to visit.

"The evidence we've assembled paints a disturbing picture," Suffolk District Attorney Daniel Conley said of Sgt. James Atkins, 43, of Revere. "It suggests the use of young people's money for sordid adult purposes and it suggests a breach of trust that sends a terrible message to the kids."

It does? Damn... and I was just getting the inspiration to get into high school football coaching.