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TUESDAY JANUARY 30 2007 11:00 AM

Bored with NBA, Shaq Turns to Life of Fighting Crime

Submitted by Colin_ORegan

Edited by erin_broadley

Tags: Shaq, Shaquille O'Neal, Heat, Police,

All around wordsmith and gigantic basketball player Shaquille O'Neal has scored one for the Miami heat. No, not the basketball team, but the police.

O'Neal, the Miami Heat's All-Star center and a reserve officer with the Miami Beach Police Department, followed a driver who allegedly crashed into his Cadillac Escalade and tried to flee the scene, the team said. O'Neal and bodyguard Jerome Crawford followed the driver for about five minutes.

The perp who fled the scene turned out to be 18-year-old Emmanuel Cibrian of Tampa, who like many a pro-basketball player before him saw Shaq Diesel coming and tried to get the fuck out of there.

Cibrian, along with two passengers, told police they were driving home from a nightclub when the accident with O'Neal occurred. The men said they did not stop because O'Neal immediately began following them and they were scared so scared that even when another car struck them as they fled the crash, they still did not stop because they wanted to elude O'Neal, WFOR reported.

Little did they know that O'Neal is an official reserve officer who was sworn in by Miami's police unit in 2005. Shaq plans to become a full-time police officer once he has retired from basketball. It's official if you feel the heat coming 'round the corner, you gotta ask yourself, "Holy shit, is that Shaq?"

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Comments

goodpoltergeist

Douglasville, GA

January 2007

JAN 30, 2007 11:02 AM

That. Is awesome.

lint737

Hollywood, FL

July 2004

JAN 30, 2007 11:19 AM

He also poses as under-agers to catch internet predators for Miami-Dade police. He has been doing that even before he was sworn in as reserve officer.

DhD_No_Pants

Katy, TX

May 2006

JAN 30, 2007 11:22 AM

Go Shaq! I had a little Asian lady assend us at a light and wave merrily as she drove away from the scene.

Ryan_Dipietro

Naples, FL

April 2004

JAN 30, 2007 11:26 AM

It seems like ever story about a rapper or basketball player starts out with them and/ or their bodyguards chasing someone down in an Escalade.

GenghisKhan

Detroit, MI

January 2004

JAN 30, 2007 11:31 AM

like many a pro-basketball player before him saw Shaq Diesel coming and tried to get the fuck out of there.

still laughing about this

DyeWhiteGirls

Madison, WI

December 2003

JAN 30, 2007 11:56 AM

AtomiPIETRO said:

It seems like ever story about a rapper or basketball player starts out with them and/ or their bodyguards chasing someone down in an Escalade.

Escalades are standard issue in the NBA.

legionnaire

Belgium

November 2003

JAN 30, 2007 12:25 PM

Was he wearing his powered metal exoskeleton?

mamet

Charleston, SC

March 2005

JAN 30, 2007 12:27 PM

One of these days someone isn't going to be so frightened of a 7' basketball player chasing after them, and he's going to get his ass shot.