Auburn DB Jonathan Mincy Teaches Kids the Meaning of Irony

Irony can be a beautiful thing, but it can also be the bane of a person's existence. For example, the bad guys appear to get away with the treasure only to be busted by the authorities for something else entirely when they try to leave the country.

It is pretty much all about a contradiction of some sort--much like the one Auburn defensive back Jonathan Mincy is living through right now.

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Recently he was a part of a D.A.R.E presentation at a local school. The initials stand for Drug Abuse Resistance Education. The program is defined in Wikipedia as "an international education program founded by Daryl Gates that seeks to prevent use of controlled drugs, membership in gangs, and violent behavior."

Pretty good program to be involved with, right? His college coaches and any NFL coaches that find out are likely to view his participation in a positive light. The only thing about being a part of a program that advocates things like not using drugs is you are expected not to use them.

That is where Mincy got it wrong.

AL.com described the scene pretty well that led to Mincy being arrested on second degree marijuana possession charges:

"The officer went to the car and smelled marijuana," Henry County Sheriff William Maddox told The Dothan Eagle. "There were two males and two females in the car and one of the males had shake all over his shirt sitting in the car in the back and there was a bag of marijuana near him. That person happened to be Jonathon Mincy of the Auburn football team."

So within days of being a part of an anti-drug presentation he goes out and gets arrested on drug related charges. Can there be a better example of irony?

Maybe what he was trying to do was send a different sort of message to the kids. Maybe he was trying to say don't mess with drugs otherwise this will happen. How better to get that message out than to get arrested and have it splashed all over the internet?

[AL.com]

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