LeBron can't always get what he wants; denied police escort in Ohio
Sep 13, 2010, 11:00 AM EDT
LeBron James was trying to be a regular citizen attempting to watch a Buckeyes football affair on Saturday, so he did what any regular Joe would do when presented with hoards of people all trying to get to the same destination; he asked for a police escort to make sure nobody touches him. Unfortunately for LeBron, cops are basketball fans too. For some reason, he was denied his personal police detail … a ‘liberty’ even bums can finagle (albeit to the drunk tank).
So how did James respond? By not showing up to the game at all.
On the bright side, he could probably get a police escort to defend him from the gathering masses that attend Florida Marlins games, eh? From Cleveland Leader.com:
James reportedly asked Ohio State University’s Police Department for a full escort for his arrival at the Buckeyes vs. Hurricanes game on Saturday, but was rather quickly denied.
A source says that at best he’ll get one police officer to escort him, and that “he made his decision.”
Something tells me that one police officer keeps his only bullet in his shirt pocket and has a girlfriend named Thelma Lou.
James is good friends with Ohio State QB Terrelle Pryor, but the thought of mingling with folks who might actually touch him was too much, so he made other plans. From Waiting For Next Year:
Spurning Columbus, James opted to stay in his home town of Akron for the day, catching the St. Vincent-St. Mary football team put up a baseball score win of 7-6 over Buchtel. James obviously felt safer amongst the St. V’s crowd as it drew approximately 95,000 fewer fans that could potentially cause harm.
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Lebron James Denied Full Police Escort to OSU vs. Miami Football Game [Cleveland Leader]
LeBron James Shows Terrelle Pryor How Big of a “Buckeye” He Really Is [Waiting For Next Year]
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- madara - Sep 14, 2010 at 9:07 PM
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I think Lebron figured out, or someone told him, that he can’t win if he didn’t join Miami. He never won despite the support Cleveland gave him. He is not a winner and a team player. He quit fighting in the playoffs.
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- brian - Sep 16, 2010 at 1:03 PM
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Miami is a nasty place outside of the Ritzy beach front areas.
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- Darwin - Sep 23, 2010 at 10:09 AM
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Dude, it wasn’t the city of Cleveland who denied him a full police escort, check your facts.
The man is not the president, he was not an honored guest who was invited by the local government to attend a function and therefore deserved the sizeable expense to taxpayers of a full police escort.
He’s just an extremely wealthy man who wanted to attend a sports function and could EASILY afford to pay for protection if he truly felt he needed it.
Maybe you need to take a good hard look around the internet…do a Google search.
I live 600 miles away from Cleveland and very few people in my state have anything good to say about LeBron either.
It’s not about him changing teams, ALL athletes change teams.
It was the way he handled that situation which was unbelievably egotistical, selfish and showed NO class.
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