Houston Rockets All-Star center Dwight Howard finds himself in some mild legal trouble in Florida, where his driver’s license has been suspended.
Howard owes the state $285 for having sped through an impressively-dangerous ten red lights during a two-year period.
Per TMZ:
According to official records, the NBA superstar was captured by those red light cameras in Orange County, FL over and over again starting in 2012, when he was busted 9 times in 10 months.
Then, after a year-and-a-half without a violation, Howard struck again in 2014 — blowing through another red light on July 1st, his 10th overall infraction.
Officials from the Orange County Clerk of Courts tell us Howard’s license can be reinstated if he pays a $285 fine.
Judging by how many kids he has from different baby mommas, Dwight seems to have trouble knowing when to stop in all aspects of his life.
There needs to be some sort of permanent license suspension when the driver does not GAF about the first 9 times they ran a red light…
lool
This guy…
don’t worry, his brother drives like this..
not dangerous necessarily..could have been nobody there at these red lights and he just went thru to save time
how many kids does he have?
Really?
I mean no disrespect by this but you’re a fuc”*g moron for that comment.
No no, you SHOULD mean disrespect.
Maybe he’ll get the idea. But probably not.
Allegedly? 8 by 8 different women.
I can see getting a couple of tickets trying to catch the yellow and not quite making it. That would be a better explanation than what you just said haha.
It would be cool if someone could get their hands on the videos of him running those lights from the red light cameras and show them at home games when the Rockets pay a visit. Over and over again.
285$ for 10 red lights?! seems very low to me
Dwight is often misguided, but so is Florida’s traffic ticket shakedown posse!!
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/09/us/hampton-florida-corruption/
Exactly!!! If it was just anyone; who is not a celeb, rich or wealthy then it would be much higher. Like they say the rich get richer and the poor gets poorer. When you’re rich, wealthy or famous things goes your way. $$$$$ = POWER and fake people around you, except family. Well it also depends on what FAM too.
He’s taking a shot at the legacy of Eazy-E
Wilt and Eazy are on a pedestal all their own.
Tax free baby!
That’s how it works right? lol
i have no idea, i don’t live over there. why are fines so small for something like this?
Wilts pull out game has to be super strong tho. 20,000 and no kids??? And you know they weren’t strapping up like that back in the say. lol
I’ve heard before (not sure if it’s true) that in Sweden fines and traffic tickets are adjusted based on ones’ income level. That seems smart to me to make sure that it’s not only the underclass who feel it when they mess up.
i live in sweden. yeah, we are rational :)
How much did Eazy-E get up to? 10?
What’s more impressive is that he never caught anything.
i love that.
WHAT?! $285??…They once gave me a fine for $300 because one of my tail lights didnt work!! That cop was racist also! He asked me where was I from and i say “Mexico” and he says “oh, so youre illegal!”….
Wow, that’s messed up bro.
That may not be the case, he had an issue with his blood before he passed.
Didn’t he die from a heart condition?
I wanna move here lol.
Heart condition from getting too much ass
Could have been complications that led to his heart being effected, but the report I read said that he never went to the doctor for anything, or dentist…the report said that he had some issue with his teeth that caused an infection in his body.
It says he died of heart failure, but do you remember seeing him during the 50 greatest players celebration?…he looked like he weighed 175lbs.
http://ezinearticles.com/?STDs,-Cardiomyopathy-and-Wilt-Chamberlain&id=192008
Looks like it was an std that caused his heart to fail.
Non-story, this was probably one of those lights in the middle of nowhere that forces you to wait 2-3 minutes even though you are the only person at the intersection. Instead of converting the intersection to a traffic circle, Florida puts up a red light camera.
It says that it may have been chlamydia, but that we’d never know.
With his health problems in his latter years and his alleged sexual history, I have to believe that one of his doctors would’ve tested him though.
welcome bro
Shawn Kemp is the king when it comes to this!
You live in Sweden? Are you Swedish? How easy is it to live in Sweden if youre not from Sweden or Europe?
Remember he never went to the Dr office, once he finally got sick that was it…they found out the complications of what caused his heart failure after he died…and him saying he never went to the doctor leads me to believe he had something, but didn’t want it to be confirmed.
One of the highest taxation systems in the world. But you see where your money goes, beautiful place. Also, the best hot chic ratio I’ve ever seen. So I imagine it’s kinda worth it. Crazy expensive though.
when i lived in santa monica my japanese roommate got 80$!!! ticket for riding his bike on the sidewalk a few block away from the promenade
half swedeish, with citizenship. if the extreme right keep increasing their share of votes, like they did in the elections the other day, then it might be harder and harder for non-swedes to move here. a worrying trend in many european countries.
Very open to immigration. Went to a mall once in Malmo, it was predominantly Muslim (from all over, Somali’s and Arabs). Saw a poster advertising the hijab and the model was a blond, blue eyed Swedish chic.
you can definitely find places like that, specially in bigger cities like malmö, göteborg and sockholm. traditionally sweden was VERY open to immigration. any country with major wars have large populations in sweden. Palestine, Somalia, Iraq, Chile, Iran, former Yugoslavia
it was a great boost to the workforce that helped a country with a small population (around 9 million now) and contributed greatly to economic success of the 80s-early90s.
those days might be long gone as the “swedish democrats” who are an openly racist party just got 13% in the elections the other day. same trend has been seen in other european countries recently
I didn’t read the rest of the comments, so I don’t know if anyone else has said that the person who got the tickets wasn’t him. The car was in his name, and he somehow got a ticket for running a red light in Florida while he was playing a game in Houston. Must have been one of his friends/baby moms.
I am “pissed”. I got a ticket in Hollywood, CA for CROSSING THE STREET TOO SLOWLY. I told the guy i wasn’t gonna sign it and four cops surrounded me. I was like: “you are kidding, right?”.
I eventually signed it but told the four cops they were wasting my tax dollars (I like reminding cops that I PAY their salary with my taxes when they act stupid) if all they do all day is bother people who are crossing the fu.king streets instead of focusing of hard core criminals.
BTW, the ticket was for about $65 but that clown Howard got a bargain: $285 for TEN red lights? That’s nothing.
With out a doubt. ELITE pull out game.
same sh*t going on in germany…depressing!
Remember when he was coming in to the league and he was supposed to be this devout Christian dude? Long removed from that.
f that im on the cops side. cant stand people who cross the street slowly.
Seriously Dwight is everything you wouldn’t want your kids to turn intoandhe has how many running around again? Good lord
Fame changes you maaaan.
He seems in many ways to act just like nearly every “devout Christian” I know.
Pre-marital sex? Check.
Liar/Deceiver? Check.
he ran red light cameras, they are cheap fines because they can’t prove who was driving, there was no officer to pullover and witness it, and no case to stand up in court. they are money grabs by the cities who employ them. he’s not getting a break from anyone else who would have ran the same red light cameras.
You are probably right.
I was pretty sure it was 10 but I couldn’t find a definite answer on google. Whatever the exact number, it was “plenty”.
Buy a car without hood. (Lol! Too big to drive. Can’t see the Red light. Haha!)
It’s normal Christian behavior. Dwight following the Christian leaders ted haggard, Jim swaggart, ed bishop long,
Give it up for Bart ehrman. Jesus interrupted is a gem.
so what? mustve been clearly worth the fun
the term you were looking for is “professional athlete”. i think there must be a special clause in christianity for those guys.
plus, the taller / bigger you are, the shorter your life expectation. a career as a professional athlete usually cuts down on life expectation as well. even if he didnt have any major STD stuff, this plus untreated chronic inflammation can be enough to set you checkmate.
hi bart. lol
youre a swede?
you should have said you were born in east la. lol
dude, lol. wtf were you doing to draw their attn?
Barely uses his brain? Check.
Well, local governments really hold the right to choose how much any legal penalty costs. For example, I live in the bay area where there are a LOT of separate local governments. A parking fee in Berkeley can cost up to $85 while a similar one in Richmond (like not even 10 miles north) can be less than half that. An illegal left hand turn in Emeryville (small rich community) is over $300(!) while moving violations in areas like Hayward (bit poorer) can be a helluva lot less than that.
Check me if I’m wrong, any poli-sci guys, but I THINK that’s how it works in Cali.
Do you have proof of that?
That’s not “normal” Christian behaviour. Have Christian leaders acted hypocritically? Sure. Saying that’s what Christians do is wrong though. I know a lot of good Christian people who don’t act like hypocrites when it comes to their faith.
Maybe not. A Wilt Chamberlain quote for all the kids and the family men out there!:
“Having a thousand different ladies is pretty cool, I’ve learned in my life. I’ve (also) found out that having one woman a thousand different times is more satisfying.”
I’m assuming that when he got sick near the end and would be taken to the hospital, they’d check him out. Not voluntary check ups or anything.
Nah some people just hate doctors. My grandma refused to go to the doctor for years before she died.
I got stung for $287.00 for parking within 10 meters of a corner. I come from Syd Aust and the local councils and parking rangers come with the big-stickness…
and denmark, and france….
that explains my former roommate’s 80 dollar ticket for riding his bike on the side walk in santa monica.
but why is that?
there have been waves of refugees before…what’s different this time?
there have always been people using immigrants for their purposes but that was never really manifested in votes!
the grass is always greener on the other side tho
Elite in PPP. Pull-outs per possession…
Just crossing the street but that cop thought I was walking too slowly. That’s all. But after I signed the ticket and gave’em a piece of my mind, I just started laughing. It was so absurd. I just wish I had a camera to film the whole thing and post it online. That’s my only regret.
there has to be more to your story. i find it very hard to believe you were “just walking slowly”. but whatever.
Believe what you want. But the POINT of the story in case you missed it was that it was absurd. That was the whole point.
FYI, when somebody writes a story for the screen, a book or whatnot, it has to be BELIEVABLE, or it won’t sell. If you have a way to send that memo to Real Life, let me know. Real Life (aka randomness) should learn to make situations believable. Smh.
Ok, how about this? I had a joint in my mouth and a gun in my belt, was kinda intoxicated, and managed to pee while crossingthe street. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand, I was spraying beer on pedestrians, managed to trip over curb of the sidewalk and vomitted on the cop who ticketed me. Whoah, I think I got off lightly………..
o i understand your point and if true those cops are diccs. i like to have as much context as i can.
I and many people i know have interacted with cops in so many ways, stopped for no real reason, etc.
i believe your story , just wondering if you had blood splatter on your shirt or something.