Eddie Griffin screws up again-literally.

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BMiller52

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Suit: NBA Player Watching Porn, Drunk Before Crash

Claim Targets Minnesota Timberwolves' Eddie Griffin

(CBS) MINNEAPOLIS A lawsuit was filed Thursday against Minnesota Timberwolves forward Eddie Griffin and the Minneapolis Police Department in connection with an accident involving Griffin in late March.

Interim Police Chief Tim Dolan ordered an internal investigation of the incident after the WCCO-TV I-TEAM contacted him last week about the crash, reports WCCO-TV's Caroline Lowe.

The lawsuit alleges Griffin was visibly drunk when he crashed his Cadillac Escalade into a parked Chevy Suburban in front of a store in southeast Minneapolis.

It also claims Griffin told a witness he was watching pornography and masturbating as he drove that night.

Witnesses said the two officers who handled the incident did not test Griffin for alcohol. Instead, they gave him tickets for driving without a license and inattentive driving and also drove him to his home in St. Paul.

WCCO-TV has obtained a copy of the store's security video and audio of the 911 calls from that night and plans to air them Thursday at 11 p.m. ET.

(© MMVI, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.)


WTF? Why couldn't he wait till he got home?
 
wow its just sad to see him do these kind of things. He could have a very bright future in the NBA except things like this hold him back from team's wanting and valueing him.
 
BMiller52 said:
The lawsuit alleges Griffin was visibly drunk when he crashed his Cadillac Escalade into a parked Chevy Suburban in front of a store in southeast Minneapolis.

It also claims Griffin told a witness he was watching pornography and masturbating as he drove that night.
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Sheesh.

Even I know that's a bad idead.
 
HndsmCelt said:
Telling a witness or the whole driving distracted thing?
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Oh, I firmly believe in proudly boasting to anyone who'll listen if you're able to successfully drive while being distracted. If you crash your car as a result, however, I'm thinking it might be best to keep that little detail to yourself.

Especially if you were alone.
 
BMiller52 said:
It also claims Griffin told a witness he was watching pornography and masturbating as he drove that night.

Witnesses said the two officers who handled the incident did not test Griffin for alcohol. Instead, they gave him tickets for driving without a license and inattentive driving and also drove him to his home in St. Paul.
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That has to be the most polite understatement for that particular activity that I've ever heard or read.
 
Hahahaha. Can we all agree to stop talking about this guy ever being a King now?
 
So I guess the Eddie Griffin counter has been reset, and we have one year before people start saying that Eddie has TOTALLY cleaned up his act and there have been no incidents in a really long time and the Kings could use his rebounding and shotblocking.
 
pdxKingsFan said:
Hahahaha. Can we all agree to stop talking about this guy ever being a King now?
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No.

I think he fits in well with the guy with the largest NBA suspension in league history, the guy who once spit in a player's face and was kicked off his own team in the playoffs, and the guy who drives 120 mph without a safety belt.
 
kingkung said:
No.

I think he fits in well with the guy with the largest NBA suspension in league history, the guy who once spit in a player's face and was kicked off his own team in the playoffs, and the guy who drives 120 mph without a safety belt.
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AND he's been clean and sober for three hours now.
 
kingkung said:
I think he fits in well with the guy with the largest NBA suspension in league history, the guy who once spit in a player's face and was kicked off his own team in the playoffs, and the guy who drives 120 mph without a safety belt.
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I find Griffin's behavior far more disturbing than any of the above. Plus its just embarassing.
 
Ya know i have more issues witha law requiring seatbelts than a guy that dives 120 with out one. Now if he was drivng 120 and his kids or wife did not have their belts on that would be different.
 
The dig about not using seatbelts was aimed at Kevin Martin, who (as reported in a fluff article about him by Amick) didn't use his seatbelt while on the freeway with Sam Amick in his car as a passenger. NOTHING was said about excessive speed and it certainly would have been had it been true.

Kevin took a LOT of heat over that article and from all reports has not driven without a seat belt since.

There were some - including myself - who wondered why Amick simply didn't say, "Dude, aren't you going to wear your seat belt?" Instead, he said nothing and included it in his bio piece about Martin. One prevailing comment about that situation was that most people would say something to a driver who didn't buckle up. Amick was apparently more interested in having some kind of "scandal" tidbit than his own or Kevin's safety.
 
I had no idea who it was, thanks for the info. I figured it might be Bibby. I think people who don't wear seat belts are a bit silly but since its basically a victimless "crime" be stupid at your own peril.

Amick does come off as a world class a-hole in this story, but on the other hand reporters are presumably not supposed to manipulate their subjects and just report what they see. Given the state of today's media maybe he deserves a Pullitzer. :D
 
pdxKingsFan said:
I had no idea who it was, thanks for the info. I figured it might be Bibby. I think people who don't wear seat belts are a bit silly but since its basically a victimless "crime" be stupid at your own peril.

Amick does come off as a world class a-hole in this story, but on the other hand reporters are presumably not supposed to manipulate their subjects and just report what they see. Given the state of today's media maybe he deserves a Pullitzer. :D
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This was a pure fluff piece. Amick actually caught a lot of flak over it. IF Martin had been going 120 mph, should Amick still have stayed quiet or would it have been a tad more prudent to say something like, "I don't know about you, but Fred (cameraman - not real name) and I would like to live past this car ride. Could you slow it down?"?

Amick was acting NOT as a reporter but as a writer of social commentary. Pretty significant difference, especially in a "feel good, get to know you" piece...
 
ITA with what you're saying, the bolded part was just me kidding around and making a general observation, the part in front of that is what I really think :) (based solely on your description of the situation)
 
pdxKingsFan said:
I had no idea who it was, thanks for the info. I figured it might be Bibby. I think people who don't wear seat belts are a bit silly but since its basically a victimless "crime" be stupid at your own peril.

Amick does come off as a world class a-hole in this story, but on the other hand reporters are presumably not supposed to manipulate their subjects and just report what they see. Given the state of today's media maybe he deserves a Pullitzer. :D
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It is most definitley NOT a victimless crime. Same as the motorcycle riders who don't want to wear a helmet.

In cases of injury, who do you think bears the cost of: the fire department; the highway patrol/police; the astronomical emergency room expense, the surgeries, the possibly lengthy hospitalization; the rehabilitation that can extend for months, possible prosthetics, etc?

If they have no health insurance, the rest of us get to pay 100% of the cost; if they had health insurance (which they will only have for awhile if they can't work) a lot of the cost may still be paid by us; the rest of us will pay for the disability benefits they receive, whether short term or long; The loss of productivity to the economy; the family that may have just lost their only or big contributing breadwinner for awhile or forever? Victimless, my a**.

As far as I'm concerned the government has the right to require common sense (and not very burdensome) measures that will make this sort of public burden less astronomical. Enough injuries/accidents happen that are less preventable. I had to sit with a girl's head in my lap trying to comfort her while she was screaming about glass in her eyes after she hit the windshield in a 5-10 mph accident in a parking lot! No thanks.

And since Kings fans remember all too well Bobby Hurley's near fatal accident, they have good reason to ask Kevin to buckle-up. We want him to be able to live up to his full potential...for himself and us. :)

Sorry, I don't mean this personally, it is just a pet peeve of mine.
 
Kevin has plenty of money to pay his medical bills, if he does it its victimless as far as I'm concerned. Its victimless unless there is a crash in all cases. That could be fixed by denying treatment to people in accidents not wearing their seatbelts if they can't afford it. Bet that would be more effective than any "click it or ticket" campaign.
 
pdxKingsFan said:
Kevin has plenty of money to pay his medical bills, if he does it its victimless as far as I'm concerned. Its victimless unless there is a crash in all cases. That could be fixed by denying treatment to people in accidents not wearing their seatbelts if they can't afford it. Bet that would be more effective than any "click it or ticket" campaign.
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Depends on how bad it is, whether even Kevin could afford it. I know someone who has had countless surgeries/rehab over years and years and still is a mess. I'd rather not think about the millions that has cost.
 
Well hopefully what VF says is true and he wears it every time now. For Kev's sake, and ours. One Bobby Hurley was enough.
 
Okay, this has gotten way off topic. Kevin Martin wears his seatbelt. He usually DOES wear his seat belt, if I remember everything correctly from what happened as a result of Amick's stupid comment.

I really don't think it's fair to run with this as though Kevin Martin is irresponsible and reckless.
 
VF21 said:
Okay, this has gotten way off topic. Kevin Martin wears his seatbelt. He usually DOES wear his seat belt, if I remember everything correctly from what happened as a result of Amick's stupid comment.

I really don't think it's fair to run with this as though Kevin Martin is irresponsible and reckless.
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Didn't mean to imply Kevin was. As I understand it, he was quite chastened by the fan reaction.;)
 
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