Simpson’s Las Vegas plight more than a ‘comedy of errors’
Alright, I’ll admit it, I’m tired of writing about O.J. Simpson, but when I saw this picture, I knew I had to work whatever creative juices I had in me to pump out a post to accompany it.
Look, the hilarity of the situation can only match the tragedy of The Juice’s fate.
Now me, I’m willing to look past that whole getting acquitted for murder thing. It’s old news. I was in junior high (these days you call it middle school) when he was acquitted. The courts sided with him and he walked a free man. Fine.
I’ll give that to him.
But he’s pulled some other antics since then that make me question whether or not he really appreciates his freedom. He’s assaulted a photographer. He’s had a road rage problem. He sped through a manatee zone in a powerboat in Florida.
Yup. I said manatee as in those big, slow cow-like sea mammals that keep getting killed when powerboats speed by and smash their heads.
And then there was the whole Las Vegas incident.
Can’t say there was really anybody at fault for Simpson’s trouble besides Simpson. The three co-defendants who cut deals are expected to testify that Simpson instructed them to bring guns.
Tens of thousands of hotel rooms in this city and The Juice is unwelcome in nearly all of them. That’s the man the media is watching so intently today.
“This Las Vegas case seems like almost a comedy of errors,” said Michael Shapiro, a defense lawyer from New York who provided commentary during Simpson’s 1995 murder trial.
I couldn’t agree more.
