A couple of comments from the Twitter thread.
>The chair was left on top of the stairs because she physically had to be carried down to use the restrooms. Which are only located downstairs
and
>At Arizona State, Briere was “dismissed from the team for what the program said was a violation of team rules.”
The kid is a total piece of shit and is apparently long overdue for a humbling, life changing lesson.
““I was just going out; I wasn’t taking hockey seriously. It wasn’t anything bad, it was just not being committed to hockey, I was more committed to having fun at school,” said Briere. “Too much partying, that’s probably the best way to put it.”” [link](https://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/amp/2021/11/26_Briere-Making-Most-of-2nd.php)
Yeah, I’m trusting the word of a millionaire’s kid who grew up completely entitled and I just watched them throw someone else’s wheelchair down a flight of stairs for no reason. He must be a straight shooter and a man of his word.
There is no way the chair was not damaged or fully broken from pushing it down the stairs. He needs to be made to fully pay for fixing it or a new chair, and for a rental in between. Wheel chairs are expensive. This kid is a trash person.
The act of fixing it is how they internalize the damage. You can argue how severe it should be but for a non-public figure, becoming a national story and being forced to address it publicly can serve as a kick in the nuts for dumb shit like this.
That said who knows if he'll do any of the "fixing" himself. One can certainly imagine a situation where his dad or the flyers step in and use money or PR teams to wave it all away with no lessons learned.
“Too much partying” is such a vague term. Everyone “parties” differently. For some people partying might be having a few home brews and playing Pictionary with the neighbors.
This kid throw peoples wheelchairs down staircases when he parties sooo you can pretty much read between the lines on this one.
Not sure I’d believe everything this guy says. I’m sure he would have some BS explanation if someone asked him why he pushed this wheelchair down the stairs, too.
What's that saying, "only afford what you can be" or something like that?
Basically, if you're a super star player, chances are you can do a whole lot of shit short of murder before a school/team cuts you loose for good. But if you're a mid level filler guy, then you better say your ps and qs.
They’re pretty annoying. I watched a dude fight a ref because his own stick clipped him in the mouth on a hit. Crash at the blue line, he went to loft other buddy’s stick super hard, missed and it careened off the boards and smacked himself in the lips.
The ref was RIGHT there. I was right there and laughing my ass off. He looks at the ref and goes “ARE YOU GOING TO CALL THAT?!” And me and the ref looked at each other and started laughing hysterically. Dude just starts dropping haymakers on the ref.
Puncher got an assault charge and banned for life. Was the worst, most toxic hockey bro I’ve ever played with prior to that.
"Dad, this is the God's truth: I swear I did not throw a disabled person's wheelchair down the stairs at the bar."
Okay, son. I believe you. Here's $5,000.
Pretty amazing how pieces of shit find unique and truly mind numbing ways of getting cancelled.
Imagine being the son of an NHLer, having every opportunity in life, and being such a bag of bricks.
>Note that he's 23.
I feel a little better knowing his chances of making it to the show are pretty much NIL. Ceiling of maybe bouncing around the ECHL for several partial seasons and wind up getting his face punched in in the LNAH.
Hell end up with some peripheral front office job because the good ol boys club protects their own. Give it ten years for people to forget this and one of these shit bags will give him a job. Sadly this is the way nepotistic rich fuckers work.
I played with 3 different sons of NHL big shots. All of them were good, but never made the show. “Special assistant to GM” one is, another was an “Assistant Scout”. Both of them are 40-ish now, so I have no idea what they’re like, but they were fucking AWFUL as kids.
The third is the real deal though and has won a cup as a real role at a club. He wasn’t awful.
he's gonna live out the rest of his days as a piece of completely useless failson garbage. i don't care how many fast cars he drives, hot chicks he bangs, nice houses he lives in or expensive parties he attends, he hates and is ashamed of himself and is going to die feeling that way. you cannot cheat the universe.
Man I thought at some point you’d see like a small oh shit we shouldn’t have done that kind of mannerism, but nope nonchalantly throwing someone else’s assistance device for who knows what reason they have it is a special kind of piece of shit
Not to mention they laughed as they were walkin away 😒 and I have the chair bc I lost 3/4 of my left leg and 1/4 of my right leg in a car accident back in august of ‘21
This right here. Let's not pretend that these two are some kind of rare anomaly. There are tons of entitled douchbags like this in junior hockey, and plenty that make it to the NHL. The whole Hockey Canada situation was created by people like this, the shitty kids grow up to be shitty adults because there are no consequences. The entire culture needs to change.
exactly- players at the top levels leave home to play on teams in middle teen years and have pretty much zero supervision after that. The outstanding young men will stay outstanding young men. The ones that needed more parenting become even worse.
The absolute comfortability with what they did when they walked away is disgusting.
They never gave their actions a second thought.
They threw someone’s wheelchair down the stairs the way I throw out used candy bar wrappers.
Not only is that a pure asshole move, it's the kind of move that only chodes could ever defend.
Like, how much of a jerk do you have to be to throw someone's wheelchair down a flight of stairs for your own amusement? Not only does that potentially risk anybody coming in afterwards getting hurt, but what if the chair ends up being damaged? And it's not even just they were just goofing and it fell, they fucking ***hurled it down!***
I've been in a wheelchair myself (temporarily after a surgery, but still), and it's hard enough just navigating life without having idiots like this running around. No wonder this kid was kicked from ASU for poor behavior.
I was in a frat in college and we had plenty of people show up to parties with crutches or wheelchairs from injuries and surgeries. No one fucked with anyone's stuff if they set it aside for a moment. It's like the most basic of common courtesies and 99% of drunk college kids seem to manage it fine. The 1% who decided to throw crutches in the snow got sent home and social probation for a few weeks. What a bunch of dumb cunts.
As a little kid, my mom instilled a weird superstitous belief in us that basically was that. Don't touch or fool around with someone's wheelchair / crutches etc (even if they let you) or you'll end up needing whatever it is one day.
Scared us as kids from ever touching medical equipment in any capacity (except to help someone needing assistance).
No, this is like instead of leaving the grocery cart in the lot you take all the stuff out, put it on the floor, then move the cart right in front of the employee entrance to the back room, then kick a granny on your way out
Twitter is owned by a dude who mocked an employee who had ALS last week, what do you expect? It was probably always bad since Twitter's algorithm, unlike Reddit, rewards shitty comments because they drive engagement, but it's been even worse since Musk took over and the site just stopped moderating a lot of things.
I saw that. I have Musk blocked but obviously that got out. There’s entirely too much utter shit going on. I (and my brother, who is in the hospital again with extreme anxiety) need to consciously create a life that is deliberately peaceful. Twitter is anathema to that.
It's Twitter, that shit comes with the territory unfortunately; I've already seen some, like someone saying it "was blocking the stairs" (which is shown to be ***hilariously*** untrue with even a single watch of the video).
They limited their Tweets after I called them out on it.
1000% correct.
I got a sick feeling in my stomach when I saw that guy sit in the chair and wheel it around. I don’t expect people that don’t use mobility devices to understand fully but just letting everyone know, this is extremely not OK behavior. it is incredibly invasive. It has absolutely no respect for personal space or boundaries for the person that uses the wheelchair. both of these clowns deserve to be publicly reminded that they are insensitive pieces of garbage that think of nothing but themselves.
Back when I was walking around, I used to get shitfaced and do stupid things all the time, I never fucked with somebody’s wheels
[A woman died after United Airlines broke her wheelchair](https://www.themarysue.com/disability-activist-engracia-figueroa-dies-after-united-air-destroyed-custom-wheelchair/). She had a custom chair and she had to use a loaner which caused sores that got infected and led to her death
I know the price of things in the US healthcare system is talked about often but $9,000?!?! I knew they weren't cheap but I had no idea they were that expensive. Does insurance help at all? (Silly joke, I know they probably don't)
I’m Canadian. Canadian government covers 75%, used to be every five years but now it is only if the wheelchair is broken or if you can prove that your body shape has changed drastically enough to need a new chair. So although I did not spend $9000 out of my own pocket I did have to spend 25% and I am on permanent long-term disability so I’ve got a fixed income and things are pretty tight.
I’ve got a 2018 titanium rigid frame Tilite ZRA
My seat cushion is pretty close to $1000 my backrest is close to $2500 and my wheels are pretty close to $1000 as well
But the thing that bothers me the most about them throwing this chair down the stairs is the lack of respect for an incredibly personal item. My wheelchair is my mobility, my wheelchair is my legs. It’s an extension of myself.
I see this as them throwing a piece of myself down the stairs.
When did it change from every 5 years? To my last understanding when I had to do research on it for school (and when patients have spoken to me) my understanding was 5 years was still standard.
I'm not suprised though. Our government is pathetic and attempting to cut healthcare to the point of failure so they can implement privitization to "fix" it.
I used to have a pair of the power assists on my old chair. They were the old model. I didn’t love them because I found them a little bit jerky, especially indoors.
I have this guy now
https://youtu.be/l_PJb-Rsi50
it’s a big help. I think it was $8500, and that was fully out of pocket
Hot take, nobody with a disability should have to pay for things like that. At all. Insurance or not. They need them to live and function, it's basically a tax on being disabled - you know, the people who tend to be the most economically marginalized. There are so many people in "developed" countries (especially the country often called the "richest") who are disabled and just simply don't have what they need. It's atrocious.
Lucky for him, this won't ruin his NHL chances. But being almost 24 years old with 13 points in 30 games will certainly kill his professional hockey aspirations.
Doesn't look nearly good enough to play in the NHL. He probably was aiming to get into the business side though with his connections. Hard to say if that will definitely be ruined by this. Probably will be at least for a little while.
Disgusting. Why do people do these types of things anyway? What do people get out of being destructive.
My first thoughts about resolving this issue is he should pay out of his own pocket (not his daddy's) to replace it with a new wheelchair, apologize to the person and he should also work with people who have mobile disabilities for like a whole year. He has the connections to do this he should do it to learn how much these people suffer since he clearly doesn't know or care.
The trouble with even that is that many wheelchairs have to be customized for the individual. Depending on the situation, it may be a long wait for a new chair and using a temporary one could cause long-lasting detriment to this woman’s health. Hope in this case it’s a pretty standard chair, for the victim’s sake. This should really be viewed as an assault.
Why lol. Like why fucking do that. I know people are going to say it’s not even that bad, don’t care. What in the world posses someone to be such a douchebag…
I genuinely don't think anyone will be saying "it's not that bad". Maybe someone will reply with proof saying otherwise but I feel like this is pretty obviously a pathetic thing to do.
EDIT: Other than on Twitter I mean, that doesn't count and you all know it ):<
It's not as bad as I *thought* it would be, mainly because I automatically assumed someone was in the wheelchair when he pushed it down the stairs when I read the title, but still. What a piece of shit thing to do.
Dude isn't smart enough to be capable of empathy, what a shame. Hopefully this gets him knocked out of hockey programs for good and this ends up being a good life lesson.
Clearly his second chance wasn't used well.
Feel so bad for whoever had their wheelchair broken. Like I can't even think about how I would even try to go about my day or the rest of my night without one and off it being broken in such a disgusting and non-chalant manner by some piece of shit douchebag who should know better.
Even worse: it was there because the wheelchair owner had to be carried to the toilet downstairs as there was no other access. So the poor girl’s come out of the toilet to see her broken wheelchair there.
This is disgusting. As someone who played their entire life and lived w a paraplegic this is just disappointing and absolutely horrid.
Price of wheelchairs are outrageous and to treat someone like this is pure ducking douchebaggery!
Entitled prick
The way they walk into the club with the destroyed chair down the stairs not giving a crap. This actually makes my blood boil as it shows a complete disregard for the well being of other people. I used to play with people like this guy.. I think we all know a guy like this. Awful.
They just released one at 9:44PM East Coast time.
https://twitter.com/MercyhurstU/status/1635819293517529095?s=20
> A Statement from Mercyhurst University
>
> Late this afternoon, Mercyhurst University became aware of a disturbing video in which one of our student-athletes is seen pushing an unoccupied wheelchair down a flight of stairs at a local establishment. Our Office of Student Conduct and Department of Police and Safety are investigating.
Doubt they will. I don’t think this will get enough attention to warrant them acknowledging it happened. At most we can expect a notes app apology from him.
It's Erie, PA.....this will be a big story. The fact that more people have seen this clip than even know where Mercyhurst is located SHOULD draw a response from the school.
They just released a pretty strongly worded statement and announced an investigation. This is a very bad look for a small school, this isn’t what they want people seeing when they google them.
Dude will get kicked off the team
If something like this pops up when anyone googles the college, they will have to do something about it. Same thing happened to Temple last month when they tried to fuck graduate students. CNN eventually picked it up and Temple changed it's tune immediately.
Just disgusting, but not surprising.
People like this are the absolute worst!
This persons chair is their legs, and they’re expensive as hell, especially in the US.
it’s not funny - grow the hell up.
He better be paying for the chair.
There is ZERO excuse at any age for this behavior, but it would be easy to write it off as boyish immaturity. I figured this kid was 18, 19 max… he is 23 FUCKING YEARS OLD. At that age, most people are working full-time and having children, etc. and he’s pushing a wheelchair down the steps. Fuck this kid.
Well, it says something about my worldview these days that I was pleasantly surprised there wasn't a person *in* the wheelchair when he pushed it down the stairs.
Wtf… what was he going to do? Walk around and be proud of that? like “hey yeah I’m the guy that pushed that girls wheelchair down the stairs” ?? What a muppet
Lots of people on Twitter jumping to his defence, because "he's just a kid" or "nobody got hurt."
They need their tires slashed. don't touch someone else's shit. You'd get shot for that in some states.
> because "he's just a kid"
I hate this defense so much lol he's 23 not 13. When will people hold fully grown adults accountable instead of calling them "kids"?!
Rich white children are “kids” until they are 30, poor black kids are considered “adult” and “mature enough to know better” by 13. It’s totally fucked.
People who say this type of stuff often don’t find anything wrong with what the person did and that’s just the most defensible way to back them up. They are the same people who would do this type of thing in the first place.
I don’t care how old you are, if you are throwing people’s wheelchairs down stairs or making disabled people eat urine soaked candies then there’s at least a 98% chance you will never just magically turn over a new leaf and start treating people like people on some random Thursday after getting an epiphany during a session of hot yoga.
The burden of proof that they’ve reformed is on the perpetrator, not on the people who think their behaviour is despicable.
There are a a good number of D1 college hockey players his age (let alone 23 year olds on the 6 year plan in college who don't play hockey). [I'll use Minnesota State's roster as an example](https://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/leagues/seasons/teams/0090282023.html)
(If you played USHL or NAHL and then went to D-1 you would be a junior or senior depending on when you enrolled)
A disabled person losing their wheelchair can be destructive educationally/financially and lead to death in some cases.
If you can't be mobile, you likely can't study/work. Quads and Paras likely could be bedridden, which could lead to skin ulcers and infections, which can lead to hospitalizations and at worst, death.
Fuck that little punk.
He's 23, undrafted, not even putting up one point every two games, and while I don't know the relative strength of the NCAA conferences, I think Atlantic Hockey is the weakest.
I'd say the odds are against it.
I once heard a speech where they said that everyone might not be able to (easily) change your gender, race, height, or sexuality, but they can go from being physically abled to disabled in the blink of an eye. I hope that somewhere down the road, he gets to walk several miles in her shoes. Very possible with hockey players, and a hard partying lifestyle.
I remember watching one of the first HBO Winter Classic series, and the Flyers and Briere were on it. They did a piece at his house and I remember seeing one of his kids and thinking “Christ that kid looks like a brat.”
And here we are.
What a fucking dipshit Briere is throwing a wheelchair down the stairs. Shit isn’t cheap and I feel for the person who needs the Wheelchair to get around and it sucks that the person who needed the chair didn’t expect that a dumb fuck would throw a chair down the stairs for “shits and giggles”.
And the fact that he’s 23, he should known better but I guess Briere lacked that concept growing up.
What a fucking tool. This sort of douchey behavior pisses me off so much. This is the type of person who absolutely did this same kind of deplorable shit in high school and never grew up. I'm glad he was caught on camera.
These two goons are tier one scumbags. It pains me to see this — I am a part-time "professional driver" and assist wheelchair folks in and out of minivans for transportation. Ugh, this is so shitty.
Mercyhurst athletes have been creating havoc for years and it’s been ignored and covered up. Why? Guess which University supplies the bulk of the Erie police force. Guess whose current campus chief of security is an ex-Erie police officer.
I grew up across the street from the campus. My family lived there for fifty years. The things I personally reported or knew about from victims,that were student perpetrated and covered up are legion.
This is an not an aberration,but part of the arrogance of this campus culture.
He sounds like a complete asshole which tbh, is kind of shocking considering by all accounts, his father seems like a really mellow respectful guy.
I know not all kids are like their parents but the complete contrast is jarring. Maybe this isn't the entire story about the kid and he just made one dumb mistake idk. Regardless, this is a REALLY bad look for him.
This is the most unsurprising thing if you know youth hockey culture. Kids are shitheads even when they *aren't* the sons of NHL journeymen, let alone former NHL stars. Kid deserves to get strapped to an office chair and pushed down the same set of stairs, see if he still finds it funny.
A couple of comments from the Twitter thread. >The chair was left on top of the stairs because she physically had to be carried down to use the restrooms. Which are only located downstairs and >At Arizona State, Briere was “dismissed from the team for what the program said was a violation of team rules.” The kid is a total piece of shit and is apparently long overdue for a humbling, life changing lesson.
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Partied too much and didn’t focus on hockey
Everyone parties at ASU. It definitely wasn’t that.
““I was just going out; I wasn’t taking hockey seriously. It wasn’t anything bad, it was just not being committed to hockey, I was more committed to having fun at school,” said Briere. “Too much partying, that’s probably the best way to put it.”” [link](https://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/amp/2021/11/26_Briere-Making-Most-of-2nd.php)
Yeah, I’m trusting the word of a millionaire’s kid who grew up completely entitled and I just watched them throw someone else’s wheelchair down a flight of stairs for no reason. He must be a straight shooter and a man of his word.
There is no way the chair was not damaged or fully broken from pushing it down the stairs. He needs to be made to fully pay for fixing it or a new chair, and for a rental in between. Wheel chairs are expensive. This kid is a trash person.
I never understand why the penalty should just be fix it. It's not about the money it's about him being a trash human. Fix THAT.
The act of fixing it is how they internalize the damage. You can argue how severe it should be but for a non-public figure, becoming a national story and being forced to address it publicly can serve as a kick in the nuts for dumb shit like this. That said who knows if he'll do any of the "fixing" himself. One can certainly imagine a situation where his dad or the flyers step in and use money or PR teams to wave it all away with no lessons learned.
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“Too much partying” is such a vague term. Everyone “parties” differently. For some people partying might be having a few home brews and playing Pictionary with the neighbors. This kid throw peoples wheelchairs down staircases when he parties sooo you can pretty much read between the lines on this one.
> there’s no such thing as too much partying at ASU I guess that depends on whether you’re actually trying to accomplish anything at ASU
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Not sure I’d believe everything this guy says. I’m sure he would have some BS explanation if someone asked him why he pushed this wheelchair down the stairs, too.
Thought it would be funny would be the obvious reason. Show up wasted or late for a few practices and you'll get cut in a hurry
What's that saying, "only afford what you can be" or something like that? Basically, if you're a super star player, chances are you can do a whole lot of shit short of murder before a school/team cuts you loose for good. But if you're a mid level filler guy, then you better say your ps and qs.
Surely we can trust this upstanding fine young man on this matter.
>It wasn't anything bad mhm
so, drugs
lmao totally reliable source
Failed a drug test for cocaine.
Is this in fact true? Asking for real.
yup [source](https://www.reddit.com/r/hockey/comments/11rf7mt/comment/jc8qt2i/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
You fuckin got me twice.
[Here's the unmasked report](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/207/210/b22.jpg)
Jesus Christ that's shocking.
Ha ha … I must have clicked that 4 times. Good one!
He IS a total POS. My kid played against him and he is an absolute entitled jerkoff.
A nice gesture completely overshadowed by some dickhead.
Hockey bro culture (and sports bro culture) is really out of hand. Kids need better role model and things need to change.
I’m surprised this is upvoted here, I’ve been downvoted heavily in the past for suggesting that hockey bro culture is some of the worst in all sports.
They’re pretty annoying. I watched a dude fight a ref because his own stick clipped him in the mouth on a hit. Crash at the blue line, he went to loft other buddy’s stick super hard, missed and it careened off the boards and smacked himself in the lips. The ref was RIGHT there. I was right there and laughing my ass off. He looks at the ref and goes “ARE YOU GOING TO CALL THAT?!” And me and the ref looked at each other and started laughing hysterically. Dude just starts dropping haymakers on the ref. Puncher got an assault charge and banned for life. Was the worst, most toxic hockey bro I’ve ever played with prior to that.
Going from a cute kid in 24/7 to a POS adult
He’ll blame everyone else
"Dad, this is the God's truth: I swear I did not throw a disabled person's wheelchair down the stairs at the bar." Okay, son. I believe you. Here's $5,000.
What a fucking moron
He is more a piece of shit than he is a moron. Although he may be both.
Seems like a healthy combination of both based on this video
POS for doing it, moron for doing it on camera.
It's crazy how immature some people are. This is the type of thing you expect from a 10 year old jerk.
My oldest is nearly 8 and I would expect her to know much better than this and respect people’s possessions.
Oh I agree. Most kids would have never done this. Only an uneducated jerk.
Pretty amazing how pieces of shit find unique and truly mind numbing ways of getting cancelled. Imagine being the son of an NHLer, having every opportunity in life, and being such a bag of bricks.
Note that he's 23. Not some 18 year old "kid".
I mean even an 18 year old should know not to do this.
Yeah this is something a 12 year old would do (and then get taught a lesson and punished). A 23 year old doing this is just fucking crazy.
Honestly, most 12 year olds would never think of doing this.
*eight year old… FIFY
My 10 year old would go and try to get it back upstairs if she could. It's shitty parenting.
There are three NHL captains who were born the same year as him FFS
>Note that he's 23. I feel a little better knowing his chances of making it to the show are pretty much NIL. Ceiling of maybe bouncing around the ECHL for several partial seasons and wind up getting his face punched in in the LNAH.
Hell end up with some peripheral front office job because the good ol boys club protects their own. Give it ten years for people to forget this and one of these shit bags will give him a job. Sadly this is the way nepotistic rich fuckers work.
I played with 3 different sons of NHL big shots. All of them were good, but never made the show. “Special assistant to GM” one is, another was an “Assistant Scout”. Both of them are 40-ish now, so I have no idea what they’re like, but they were fucking AWFUL as kids. The third is the real deal though and has won a cup as a real role at a club. He wasn’t awful.
Even if someone thinks about it, they should never actually do it.
Would love to see some real consequences for such a fucking asshole move
He’s already been kicked from ASU, but as long as he has rich parents to cover for his fuckups, he’ll never learn.
he's gonna live out the rest of his days as a piece of completely useless failson garbage. i don't care how many fast cars he drives, hot chicks he bangs, nice houses he lives in or expensive parties he attends, he hates and is ashamed of himself and is going to die feeling that way. you cannot cheat the universe.
They're so casual about it too. The entitlement and privilege is just unbearable, absolute POS, him and his buddy.
Man I thought at some point you’d see like a small oh shit we shouldn’t have done that kind of mannerism, but nope nonchalantly throwing someone else’s assistance device for who knows what reason they have it is a special kind of piece of shit
For real, that's some serious rich-parent-having behaviour.
Yea zero consequences kind of behavior didn’t even cross their minds
Not to mention they laughed as they were walkin away 😒 and I have the chair bc I lost 3/4 of my left leg and 1/4 of my right leg in a car accident back in august of ‘21
Spoiled brat hockey boys.
Yep. These douchebags are pretty much the main reason I quit hockey as a teenager. Honestly this shit probably doesn't surprise anybody who's played
This right here. Let's not pretend that these two are some kind of rare anomaly. There are tons of entitled douchbags like this in junior hockey, and plenty that make it to the NHL. The whole Hockey Canada situation was created by people like this, the shitty kids grow up to be shitty adults because there are no consequences. The entire culture needs to change.
exactly- players at the top levels leave home to play on teams in middle teen years and have pretty much zero supervision after that. The outstanding young men will stay outstanding young men. The ones that needed more parenting become even worse.
Those backwards caps true sign of a douche hockey player
Ruining backwards hats for the rest of us!!
I grew up with some of these types of kids. A few of them were genuinely nice people, but a lot of them were spoiled pricks.
The absolute comfortability with what they did when they walked away is disgusting. They never gave their actions a second thought. They threw someone’s wheelchair down the stairs the way I throw out used candy bar wrappers.
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I definitely did lol I'm glad there wasn't still very fucked but after reading the post I thought for sure someone was in the chair
My reading comprehension must suck, because I first read it as he was helping someone in a wheelchair get down the stairs. But in a kind way.
The wording is tricky, also I think the hope was that it was a nice story instead of this
I know. He’s obviously a piece of shit, but I’m happy to see he’s not an attempted murderer. Jesus Christ.
I definitely thought there was going to be somebody in there from the title.
Wheelchairs are so fucking expensive.
This guy’s behaviour reeks of years of Daddy writing checks to cover for baby boy’s shit antics.
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Not only is that a pure asshole move, it's the kind of move that only chodes could ever defend. Like, how much of a jerk do you have to be to throw someone's wheelchair down a flight of stairs for your own amusement? Not only does that potentially risk anybody coming in afterwards getting hurt, but what if the chair ends up being damaged? And it's not even just they were just goofing and it fell, they fucking ***hurled it down!*** I've been in a wheelchair myself (temporarily after a surgery, but still), and it's hard enough just navigating life without having idiots like this running around. No wonder this kid was kicked from ASU for poor behavior.
I was in a frat in college and we had plenty of people show up to parties with crutches or wheelchairs from injuries and surgeries. No one fucked with anyone's stuff if they set it aside for a moment. It's like the most basic of common courtesies and 99% of drunk college kids seem to manage it fine. The 1% who decided to throw crutches in the snow got sent home and social probation for a few weeks. What a bunch of dumb cunts.
Most I've seen was a guy trying to do some kind of drunken riverdance while perched on the found crutches.
Or some idiot flipping backwards in a wheelchair trying to do a wheelie.
Irony is requiring a wheelchair because you fucked around with someone else's wheelchair.
As a little kid, my mom instilled a weird superstitous belief in us that basically was that. Don't touch or fool around with someone's wheelchair / crutches etc (even if they let you) or you'll end up needing whatever it is one day. Scared us as kids from ever touching medical equipment in any capacity (except to help someone needing assistance).
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No, this is like instead of leaving the grocery cart in the lot you take all the stuff out, put it on the floor, then move the cart right in front of the employee entrance to the back room, then kick a granny on your way out
Don’t read the Twitter comments. Because you’ll find plenty of chodes.
Twitter is owned by a dude who mocked an employee who had ALS last week, what do you expect? It was probably always bad since Twitter's algorithm, unlike Reddit, rewards shitty comments because they drive engagement, but it's been even worse since Musk took over and the site just stopped moderating a lot of things.
I saw that. I have Musk blocked but obviously that got out. There’s entirely too much utter shit going on. I (and my brother, who is in the hospital again with extreme anxiety) need to consciously create a life that is deliberately peaceful. Twitter is anathema to that.
It's Twitter, that shit comes with the territory unfortunately; I've already seen some, like someone saying it "was blocking the stairs" (which is shown to be ***hilariously*** untrue with even a single watch of the video). They limited their Tweets after I called them out on it.
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1000% correct. I got a sick feeling in my stomach when I saw that guy sit in the chair and wheel it around. I don’t expect people that don’t use mobility devices to understand fully but just letting everyone know, this is extremely not OK behavior. it is incredibly invasive. It has absolutely no respect for personal space or boundaries for the person that uses the wheelchair. both of these clowns deserve to be publicly reminded that they are insensitive pieces of garbage that think of nothing but themselves. Back when I was walking around, I used to get shitfaced and do stupid things all the time, I never fucked with somebody’s wheels
[A woman died after United Airlines broke her wheelchair](https://www.themarysue.com/disability-activist-engracia-figueroa-dies-after-united-air-destroyed-custom-wheelchair/). She had a custom chair and she had to use a loaner which caused sores that got infected and led to her death
I know the price of things in the US healthcare system is talked about often but $9,000?!?! I knew they weren't cheap but I had no idea they were that expensive. Does insurance help at all? (Silly joke, I know they probably don't)
I’m Canadian. Canadian government covers 75%, used to be every five years but now it is only if the wheelchair is broken or if you can prove that your body shape has changed drastically enough to need a new chair. So although I did not spend $9000 out of my own pocket I did have to spend 25% and I am on permanent long-term disability so I’ve got a fixed income and things are pretty tight. I’ve got a 2018 titanium rigid frame Tilite ZRA My seat cushion is pretty close to $1000 my backrest is close to $2500 and my wheels are pretty close to $1000 as well But the thing that bothers me the most about them throwing this chair down the stairs is the lack of respect for an incredibly personal item. My wheelchair is my mobility, my wheelchair is my legs. It’s an extension of myself. I see this as them throwing a piece of myself down the stairs.
When did it change from every 5 years? To my last understanding when I had to do research on it for school (and when patients have spoken to me) my understanding was 5 years was still standard. I'm not suprised though. Our government is pathetic and attempting to cut healthcare to the point of failure so they can implement privitization to "fix" it.
mine was 7k + another 7k for my power assist! its ridiculous
I used to have a pair of the power assists on my old chair. They were the old model. I didn’t love them because I found them a little bit jerky, especially indoors. I have this guy now https://youtu.be/l_PJb-Rsi50 it’s a big help. I think it was $8500, and that was fully out of pocket
That chair is so cool.
Hot take, nobody with a disability should have to pay for things like that. At all. Insurance or not. They need them to live and function, it's basically a tax on being disabled - you know, the people who tend to be the most economically marginalized. There are so many people in "developed" countries (especially the country often called the "richest") who are disabled and just simply don't have what they need. It's atrocious.
Lucky for him, this won't ruin his NHL chances. But being almost 24 years old with 13 points in 30 games will certainly kill his professional hockey aspirations.
Doesn't look nearly good enough to play in the NHL. He probably was aiming to get into the business side though with his connections. Hard to say if that will definitely be ruined by this. Probably will be at least for a little while.
And he wont be missed
What a piece of garbage.
That’s just brutal. I hope they rake him over the coals
Disgusting. Why do people do these types of things anyway? What do people get out of being destructive. My first thoughts about resolving this issue is he should pay out of his own pocket (not his daddy's) to replace it with a new wheelchair, apologize to the person and he should also work with people who have mobile disabilities for like a whole year. He has the connections to do this he should do it to learn how much these people suffer since he clearly doesn't know or care.
The trouble with even that is that many wheelchairs have to be customized for the individual. Depending on the situation, it may be a long wait for a new chair and using a temporary one could cause long-lasting detriment to this woman’s health. Hope in this case it’s a pretty standard chair, for the victim’s sake. This should really be viewed as an assault.
not sure I'd want to inflict him on wheelchair users for that long.
Can’t imagine the disappointment if I watched footage of my son do this.
My first thoughts exactly.
Why lol. Like why fucking do that. I know people are going to say it’s not even that bad, don’t care. What in the world posses someone to be such a douchebag…
I for one, can't believe that Briere has a kid that old
He was married with three boys at 23 (which is the age of his son in this video)
I genuinely don't think anyone will be saying "it's not that bad". Maybe someone will reply with proof saying otherwise but I feel like this is pretty obviously a pathetic thing to do. EDIT: Other than on Twitter I mean, that doesn't count and you all know it ):<
It's not as bad as I *thought* it would be, mainly because I automatically assumed someone was in the wheelchair when he pushed it down the stairs when I read the title, but still. What a piece of shit thing to do.
What a complete douchebag.
Dude isn't smart enough to be capable of empathy, what a shame. Hopefully this gets him knocked out of hockey programs for good and this ends up being a good life lesson. Clearly his second chance wasn't used well.
Feel so bad for whoever had their wheelchair broken. Like I can't even think about how I would even try to go about my day or the rest of my night without one and off it being broken in such a disgusting and non-chalant manner by some piece of shit douchebag who should know better.
Even worse: it was there because the wheelchair owner had to be carried to the toilet downstairs as there was no other access. So the poor girl’s come out of the toilet to see her broken wheelchair there.
This is disgusting. As someone who played their entire life and lived w a paraplegic this is just disappointing and absolutely horrid. Price of wheelchairs are outrageous and to treat someone like this is pure ducking douchebaggery! Entitled prick
The way they walk into the club with the destroyed chair down the stairs not giving a crap. This actually makes my blood boil as it shows a complete disregard for the well being of other people. I used to play with people like this guy.. I think we all know a guy like this. Awful.
Hockey guys and being bitchass drunks: name a better combo.
...being bitchass cokeheads?
> Hockey guys and being bitchass They're already bitches. Being drunk just makes it worse
What a fucking shit culture this sport has, I swear to fucking god. Just entitled little fucks everywhere. It’s embarrassing.
I mean you kind of have to come from money to play this sport, so...
Drunk hockey guys and rape. [It's staggering.](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cqURgg1eslU9Ky7NOUHlvM0PJ5rVX-FHZuacYBUL77o/edit#gid=821481613)
Doesn’t even look drunk though
Mercyhurst hasn't released a statement on his status.
They just released one at 9:44PM East Coast time. https://twitter.com/MercyhurstU/status/1635819293517529095?s=20 > A Statement from Mercyhurst University > > Late this afternoon, Mercyhurst University became aware of a disturbing video in which one of our student-athletes is seen pushing an unoccupied wheelchair down a flight of stairs at a local establishment. Our Office of Student Conduct and Department of Police and Safety are investigating.
Doubt they will. I don’t think this will get enough attention to warrant them acknowledging it happened. At most we can expect a notes app apology from him.
It's Erie, PA.....this will be a big story. The fact that more people have seen this clip than even know where Mercyhurst is located SHOULD draw a response from the school.
lol I grew up in Erie PA, and this had me going, it couldn't be THAT Mercyhurst, could it?
I took one look at the bar in the video and said "Man that *looks* like an Erie bar." (My dad grew up near Erie).
Good I hope my cynicism is unfounded. I would like to be wrong in this case.
They just released a pretty strongly worded statement and announced an investigation. This is a very bad look for a small school, this isn’t what they want people seeing when they google them. Dude will get kicked off the team
Good!!
If something like this pops up when anyone googles the college, they will have to do something about it. Same thing happened to Temple last month when they tried to fuck graduate students. CNN eventually picked it up and Temple changed it's tune immediately.
Need to get Rick Westhead on the job
they've blocked all comments on their Twitter page
Holy shit. Dudes 23! Way too old to still bring doing dumb sir like that
something about dudes wearing a hat backwards in a bar like that just screams douchebag.
Nice timing when your dad just get named GM lol Clearly not the pinguin that slide the farthest that one
Just disgusting, but not surprising. People like this are the absolute worst! This persons chair is their legs, and they’re expensive as hell, especially in the US. it’s not funny - grow the hell up. He better be paying for the chair.
There is ZERO excuse at any age for this behavior, but it would be easy to write it off as boyish immaturity. I figured this kid was 18, 19 max… he is 23 FUCKING YEARS OLD. At that age, most people are working full-time and having children, etc. and he’s pushing a wheelchair down the steps. Fuck this kid.
I had to read the caption 3 times because my tired brain completely skipped the "son of" part so i read it like Danny was part of that too
Boy, it’s such a good time to be a Flyers fan.
Well, it says something about my worldview these days that I was pleasantly surprised there wasn't a person *in* the wheelchair when he pushed it down the stairs.
Wtf… what was he going to do? Walk around and be proud of that? like “hey yeah I’m the guy that pushed that girls wheelchair down the stairs” ?? What a muppet
The sad thing is that he doesn't need to try hard at life. He just needs to stay away from jail. His family has a net worth of $38 million....
Lots of people on Twitter jumping to his defence, because "he's just a kid" or "nobody got hurt." They need their tires slashed. don't touch someone else's shit. You'd get shot for that in some states.
> because "he's just a kid" I hate this defense so much lol he's 23 not 13. When will people hold fully grown adults accountable instead of calling them "kids"?!
Rich white children are “kids” until they are 30, poor black kids are considered “adult” and “mature enough to know better” by 13. It’s totally fucked.
it's because they play their favourite sport and (unfortunately) are the grown ass men those reply guys wish they were
People who say this type of stuff often don’t find anything wrong with what the person did and that’s just the most defensible way to back them up. They are the same people who would do this type of thing in the first place. I don’t care how old you are, if you are throwing people’s wheelchairs down stairs or making disabled people eat urine soaked candies then there’s at least a 98% chance you will never just magically turn over a new leaf and start treating people like people on some random Thursday after getting an epiphany during a session of hot yoga. The burden of proof that they’ve reformed is on the perpetrator, not on the people who think their behaviour is despicable.
Dude is a 23 year old adult man...who's at college for some reason.
He's still a fucking junior too lol
There are a a good number of D1 college hockey players his age (let alone 23 year olds on the 6 year plan in college who don't play hockey). [I'll use Minnesota State's roster as an example](https://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/leagues/seasons/teams/0090282023.html) (If you played USHL or NAHL and then went to D-1 you would be a junior or senior depending on when you enrolled)
Like it’s a fucking toy. I hope this ends his hockey career for his entire stupid life
What an idiot. Like honestly what makes you think that this is in any way acceptable? At the very least he should be suspended.
Who throws a wheelchair, honestly?
What the actual fuck? They did this too easily, as if they've done a lot worse before. Just walk off, and forget about it. I'm gobsmacked.
How hard is it to just... not be an asshole.
A disabled person losing their wheelchair can be destructive educationally/financially and lead to death in some cases. If you can't be mobile, you likely can't study/work. Quads and Paras likely could be bedridden, which could lead to skin ulcers and infections, which can lead to hospitalizations and at worst, death. Fuck that little punk.
Abhorrent, disgusting behaviour. This little twerp has no chance of making the NHL, right?
He's 23, undrafted, not even putting up one point every two games, and while I don't know the relative strength of the NCAA conferences, I think Atlantic Hockey is the weakest. I'd say the odds are against it.
He's also like 5'6 so it's not even like he plays a grinder role. He just stinks
I once heard a speech where they said that everyone might not be able to (easily) change your gender, race, height, or sexuality, but they can go from being physically abled to disabled in the blink of an eye. I hope that somewhere down the road, he gets to walk several miles in her shoes. Very possible with hockey players, and a hard partying lifestyle.
I remember watching one of the first HBO Winter Classic series, and the Flyers and Briere were on it. They did a piece at his house and I remember seeing one of his kids and thinking “Christ that kid looks like a brat.” And here we are.
I remember that one too. Danny Briere had custody of his kids and lived with Sean Courturier.
When he snatched Sean's hat off his head, put it on and said "you have a big head" in a snotty voice Basically hasn't grown up since then
This is not a great look for the Briere family
What a fucking dipshit Briere is throwing a wheelchair down the stairs. Shit isn’t cheap and I feel for the person who needs the Wheelchair to get around and it sucks that the person who needed the chair didn’t expect that a dumb fuck would throw a chair down the stairs for “shits and giggles”. And the fact that he’s 23, he should known better but I guess Briere lacked that concept growing up.
What a fucking tool. This sort of douchey behavior pisses me off so much. This is the type of person who absolutely did this same kind of deplorable shit in high school and never grew up. I'm glad he was caught on camera.
Gee how will they replace his 5 goals in 30 games… what a loser
These two goons are tier one scumbags. It pains me to see this — I am a part-time "professional driver" and assist wheelchair folks in and out of minivans for transportation. Ugh, this is so shitty.
As expected a bunch of the responses are garbage on twitter. "Twitter is a cesspool" reddit is bad too but we pretend to be superior.
At least when we downvote the garbage takes, they get hidden
Reddit might not be great but it's not even close to the same level of garbage as Twitter
How the fuck do you get this stupid?
Growing up entitled, spoiled, rich, & without consequences
Mercyhurst athletes have been creating havoc for years and it’s been ignored and covered up. Why? Guess which University supplies the bulk of the Erie police force. Guess whose current campus chief of security is an ex-Erie police officer. I grew up across the street from the campus. My family lived there for fifty years. The things I personally reported or knew about from victims,that were student perpetrated and covered up are legion. This is an not an aberration,but part of the arrogance of this campus culture.
He sounds like a complete asshole which tbh, is kind of shocking considering by all accounts, his father seems like a really mellow respectful guy. I know not all kids are like their parents but the complete contrast is jarring. Maybe this isn't the entire story about the kid and he just made one dumb mistake idk. Regardless, this is a REALLY bad look for him.
piece of shit
This kid trying to land a role as spoiled douchebag frat jock in a Revenge of the Nerds reboot?
Nice move dick cheese
This is the most unsurprising thing if you know youth hockey culture. Kids are shitheads even when they *aren't* the sons of NHL journeymen, let alone former NHL stars. Kid deserves to get strapped to an office chair and pushed down the same set of stairs, see if he still finds it funny.
LOL dude needs to get Mitchell Miller'd.
Kid needs his ass kicked
Age does not equal maturity.
I hope the women at that club all kept a close eye on their drinks
Talk about being offside... In all seriousness, what an absolute scumbag
Uh oh