Last Wednesday, former Indiana Pacer and current Golden State Warrior Stephen Jackson pleaded guilty to a felony count of criminal recklessness and was assigned to 100 hours of community service. Jackson will fulfill his community service hours at a local community center called the Christamore House just west of downtown Indianapolis. Christamore’s director, Olgen Williams, “will ensure that Mr. Jackson performs his community hours doing work of cleaning, of painting, whatever it is he has to do as opposed to helping youths play basketball, something he enjoys doing.”
IDS columnist Mike Abrams has some ideas that would have better suited Jackson to fulfill his hours:
• Teach a local child about gun safety
• Help the local hospitals in the orthodontia department
• Participate in the NBA’s “Read to Achieve” program
• Teach the distressed strippers from Club Rio useful slapping techniques that he learned during his fight in Detroit
• Tour as the spokesperson for the National Rifle Association
• Spend time with each and every one of Shawn Kemp’s children
• Team up with NFL’s Adam “Pacman” Jones to help clean up all of America’s strip clubs
