Griffin sets new low in atheletes getting busted

 I have been a little suprised at the lack of coverage this got back at the end of March.   Minnesota Timberwolves center Eddie Griffin was drunk and masturbating when he crashed his luxury SUV into a parked Suburban outside a store in Minneapolis, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday by the man whose Suburban was hit in the crash.  CBS out of Minnesota brought this news to us but I haver not really heard anything since.

According to an article dated on June 29,  WCCO-TV obtained copies of 911 calls and store surveillance video of the incident, along with an accident report the police submitted to the state police.  Drunk driving is bad enough.  Driving down the road with porn playing on the screen of your luxury SUV is also bad enough.  Griffin however had to combine the two.

Griffin however said he had just dropped his cell phone which is what had caused the crash.  Abed Hassuneh, who is the brother of the victim, said Griffin told him, "That he was masturbating himself going down that street. That's how the accident happened because he was not paying attention. He's paying attention to that video and all of a sudden he's shoveled somebody's car on the top of the sidewalk."

Interim Minneapolis Police Chief Tim Dolan ordered an internal affairs investigation of the conduct of the two officers who responded to the scene, after WCCO-TV made Dolan aware of allegations about the incident.

Key questions are why Griffin wasn't tested for alcohol and why the officers drove him out of the city to his home in St. Paul. Griffin also received tickets for not having a license and inattentive driving.

"Obviously, if somebody is drunk and they are driving we want that dealt with by the police officers of Minneapolis," Dolan said.

In the video, Griffin can be heard pleading with witnesses to not call police saying, "I can't go to jail."  The video also shows Griffin admitting he is drunk and doesn't have a driver's license and shows him struggling for minutes to put on his sweatshirt and offering to buy a car for the man who's SUV he crashed into in front of Santana Foods.  In other words he had gone into panic mode.

The moral of the story?  Drunk driving while cranking one out to porn is no way to go down.  His mother must be so proud!