Some Good Advice

Avoid hanging around people with names like Dreekius Oricko Johnson.

Dreekius Oricko Johnson

Former New York Jets and Tennessee Titans running back Chris Johnson is in stable condition after being shot in the shoulder during a drive-by shooting that occurred at 4 a.m. Sunday at an intersection in Orlando, Florida, according to police.

The driver of the vehicle, Dreekius Oricko Johnson, 28, was killed by gunfire, according to the Orange County sheriff’s department.

Johnson and Reggie Johnson, 29, were passengers in the Jeep, per the sheriff’s office. The latter Johnson suffered gunshot wounds to his shoulder, hand and leg. He, too, is in stable condition.

No arrests have been made in what police are calling a homicide investigation.

According to a police report, deputies arrived at the scene to find a Jeep with one deceased man and two others with gunshot wounds on the sidewalk. The victims said an unknown vehicle pulled up beside them at a red light and opened fire.

The sheriff’s office said no further information will be released at this time.

A a general rule, if the first result on Google for your name is a link to mugshots.com, you have made some bad decisions. Of course, frivolous ninnies like Alex Tabarrok blame it on excessive parking violations, but there’s a reason no one, including a university, lets guys like Alex Tabarrok have any responsibilities. To paraphrase a commenter there, libertarian chatterboxes can afford the luxury of maintaining an adolescent worldview well into adult life.

For those of us in the real world, a good rule of thumb is to avoid spending time around guys with names like Dreekius Oricko Johnson. His mother would have done better by him if she named him Food Stamp or Government Cheese. At least then he could pass himself off as the child of dope smoking artists. instead he came into this world with a ghetto name and left this life in a ghetto fashion.

8 thoughts on “Some Good Advice

  1. 1. Obama’s son?
    2. “He was just turning his life around.”
    3. “Din do nuffin’!”
    4. “He loved his momma.”
    5. (post picture when he was 12 years old ala T. Martin)
    6. “The Gentle Giant”

  2. Thrasy,

    He was an honor student: “Yes, Your Honor. No, Your Honor, etc…”

  3. The interesting thing for me is people giving their kids an unusual name in the hope they stand out from the pack. It’s like da yoof who insist on wearing a baseball cap at a certain angle or have tattoos up their neck because no one else does. Except of course the hundred kids around them all with the same lack of style in headgear and equally bad taste in cheap tattoos.

    It may be hard to imagine for a young parent that say Angel Pretty might not turn out to be as named, or Khaleesi doesn’t make the grade as a bold leader of warriors after all, but the naming comes easy. Especially when much-admired mindless singers and inane actors insist on giving their children ridiculous names too.

    Many people are not descended from apes. They are the ones that ape.

  4. I’ll bet he was an aspiring particle physicist, or aspiring rapper, or something, too.

  5. He was just finally getting his life together. He was a good father, he saw his kids every month whenever he was out of jail.

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