Sergio Kindle charged with DUI, has more charges than games played

Sergio Kindle/Courtesy: wbal-tv

Geez. Sometimes, they make it too easy. The top draft pick of the Baltimore Ravens this past season, one Sergio Kindle, was arrested last night and charged with speeding, DUI and failure to obey traffic control devices.

Read more from WBAL-TV RIGHT HERE

Yes, this isn't Mr. Kindle's first dance with those in law enforcement. While at the University of Texas, he was arrested for DUI in 2007 at age 20, we might add,  and in 2009, he drove into a parked building, yes, I said a building.

He wasn't playing this season due to injuries suffered when he fell down not one, but two flights of stairs. Read our story from that incident in July of this year....RIGHT HERE

Amazingly, the Ravens still gave Kindle a contract for this season. Granted, it was for essentially the league minimum, $320,000, but still he's getting paid essentially for doing nothing other than showing up. Based on reports, Kindle may never actually play for the Ravens...or anyone else and while we feel badly that the injury suffered in the fall down the stairs may have derailed his career before it started, in the long run, the Ravens probably don't need the headache's a healthy Kindle would cause.

Here is some video of Kindle when he was still playing football....at the University of Texas.

Sergio Kindle falls down stairs and gets hurt....

And we thought it was only baseball players who get strange, odd injuries. It appears that the Baltimore Ravens draft pick, Sergio Kindle won't be in camp this week, with...or without a contract.

No, Kindle is currently sitting in a hospital in Austin, Texas. He's in the hospital because he apparently, according to a report, fell down...not one...but two flights of stairs at a house in Austin.

More from the Baltimore Sun's Ravens blog RIGHT HERE

((Sergio Kindle//Courtesy: cantstopthebleeding.com))

Okay. No, we don't know Kindle and we don't know his background or history...but does anyone else think this sounds a bit odd? He did , while in college, manage to crash into the side of an apartment building in the middle of the night. He was never charged with anything and avoided a breath test.

We aren't saying this wasn't just an unfortunate accident, but one wonders how you fall down two flights of stairs in a house since in most homes, the stairs just really don't line up evenly for that to happen.

Hopefully, it was just a bad accident and Kindle will recuperate and be just fine. But this has the smell of intoxication reeking all over it. We hope we are wrong...but.....

To get an idea of what must of happened...well...maybe it was like this:

Longhorns LB Left Scene of Accident

((HT: Austin American-Statesman/KEYE-TV))
A Texas Longhorn football player could be in trouble with the law.

The attorney for Senior UT linebacker Sergio Kindle admits his client crashed his car into an apartment near the UT Campus then left the scene.

It happened early Wednesday morning at the Jefferson West Apartments located at 2704 Rio Grande St.

Kindle's attorney Brian Roark says Kindle was texting while driving at 2 a.m. His car veered off road and ran into apartment building. Kindle left the scene. Either Kindle or a friend called apartment complex at around 10:30 a.m. to accept responsibility for the accident and assume the cost of any damages.

Roark says to his knowledge Kindle was not drinking.

No one was hurt at the apartment.

Texas Sports Information Director John Bianco says the team's physician saw Kindle that morning about a concussion he suffered in the crash.

Police are investigating. The driver could be charged with leaving the scene of a collision.

In 2006, Kindle was arrested on a charge of drinking and driving. Head coach Mack Brown suspended him for three games.

Gregg Watson reports from the scene, thanks to our friends at KEYE-CBS42 in Austin


According to our friend, Doc Saturday, what Kindle did does NOT constitute "leaving the scene."

"...since Kindle struck a stationary object, reported it to owners within a reasonable amount of time (the following morning) and will file an accident report with the Texas Department of Public Safety, it doesn't constitute leaving the scene."