Hey Shaq? Tell Me How Your Badge Tastes
Well, it seems like there were more people than just Jim Rome who didn’t think that Shaq’s verbal assault on Kobe Bryant was very funny. One of those people is Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio who pulled Shaq’s special issue police badges. According to ESPN:
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said the Phoenix Suns center’s use of a racially derogatory word and other foul language left him no choice. Arpaio made Shaq a special deputy in 2006 and promoted him to colonel of his largely ceremonial posse later that year.
“I want his two badges back,” Arpaio told The Associated Press on Tuesday. “Because if any one of my deputies did something like this, they’re fired. I don’t condone this type of racial conduct.”
Careful there sheriff. Lord knows you don’t want to get Shaq angry, he might make a jealous rhyme about you WHILE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FREAKING COUNTRY! And then he might try to make the whole thing blow over by remarking that it was a joke, just done in fun. Because it’s always funny to ask another guy how your a$$ tastes. Nothing incendiary about that at all. And trust me that wasn’t a freestyle, I know several people who rap (okay, I know one) that will tell you that Shaq’s rhyme was definitely written out, and he came to the club with that all locked and loaded, so I’m not buying that it was a spontaneous occurrence.
Shaq saw his opportunity and he pounced on it. Hope that the moment’s worth of petty payback was worth it.
