Georgia Southern quarterback Shai Werts needs a new alibi.
One of the Eagles' top players, credited with leading last season's turnaround from two wins to 10, has been suspended indefinitely from team activities after a routine traffic stop for speeding this week in Saluda, S.C. resulted in a drug possession charge.
Werts reportedly called the police from his car and requested to pull over in a more well-lit area. After doing so, Werts claimed a white substance on the hood of his car was bird excrement.
Werts stated it was bird poop that he tried to clean at the beginning of the week at the local car wash.
"Everything about him and inside his vehicle made him appear as a clean person but the hood of his car was out of place," the report states.Werts denied knowledge of origin of the cocaine, according to the report. The powder appeared to have been "thrown on the vehicle and had been attempted to be washed off by the windshield wipers, and wiper fluid as there was white powder substance around the areas of the wiper fluid dispensary," the officer wrote.The officer said the substance did test positive with two kits in two different places on the hood of the car.
So Werts was kicked off the team based on the arrest...but wait.As it turns out, the only substance the 21-year-old was in possession of was a bit of bird poop on the hood of his car.
Charges were dropped on Thursday, according to ESPN, but not before Werts completed two days of his indefinite suspension from football for the arrest. He returned to practice on Sunday.
“I have worked with Shai on a daily basis for three years, and these charges do not reflect the young man I have come to know,†athletic director Tom Kleinlein said in a statement.
So my question is who took that birds cocaine?https://twitter.com/JacquesDoucet/status/1160399335798054912?s=20
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