Shaq loses his badge, Santa Monica plants smelly trees and Groundwork loses the Clover -- it's last links!
First Shaq disses Kobe with an obscenity-laced rap, then he gets rapped himself when the Maricopa County Sheriff's Department in Arizona, which made the former Laker an honorary deputy in 2006, asked the former Laker star to give back his badge. (That's Shaq at right, swearing a different kind of oath.)
Welcome back to the USA! Now let us download the contents of your laptop. LAT's Tech blog
Why did John McCain avoid L.A., anyway? LAist
With a lot less fanfare than when it unveiled it, Groundwork 86s the $10,000 coffee machine, the Clover. LA MetBlogs
Hollywood's Wolf's Lair for sale. Curbed LA
Get ready -- transit agencies are itching to pass along the high cost of fuel prices to all those newly converted mass transit commuters. LADN
The richest prize in skateboarding. LAist
Gold Line rail extension up for a vote. SGV Tribune
Let there be light on Wilshire. Angelenic
Santa Monica to replace ficus with “vomit trees.” LA Curbed
A $6-million gift to UCLA for an endowed chair and program in costume design, from publisher David Copley. Deadline Hollywood
--Veronique de Turenne & Jesus Sanchez
I guess if you are an NBA star who carries a Law enforcement badge,You can't go around even in fun,using obscene racial slurs.I would figure that Shaq would know,if you aspire to be a law enforcement figure,there are standards of conduct you must adhere to.Maybe it is my opinion,but I could see where Sheriff of Arizona is coming from.
Posted by: M.Potts | June 25, 2008 at 06:38 PM