LeBron James TOO BIG for Traffic

[NovU]

LeBron James is too damn famous to sit in traffic like a regular person ... so he used a police escort to get him where he needed to go -- which happened to be a Jay Z / Justin Timberlake concert.

The Miami Heat star posted a video of the detour on Instagram Friday night. As it plays you can see LeBron following a cop car with blinking lights down the wrong side of a street in Miami ... successfully bypassing the massive traffic jam to his right.

He added the caption
"They treat us so well. Needed it cause traffic was nuts!!"
It's unclear how LeBron managed to pull this off -- but his Instagram moniker is KingJames.

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NUTS!

[SoF'nAwesome]

So cool. He is on that level now. Hope the concert was fun.

[Patr1ck]

Cops are investigating it, too.

[Andrew]

Some may see this as a troubling example of celebrity worship but hey, at least LeBron is incredibly good at something. This isn't an elevator in a five star hotel rushing back to the ground floor because "Kevin Federline is in the building"; an elevator that Drew Barrymore was in at the time, no less.

I'm pretty sure it's been a few years since I pulled out that anecdote as told by Seth MacFarlane, so I'm not over quota.

[NovU]

LeBron is a dumb fuck for bragging about it though. My first thought was that he didn't really mature which I thought he did after all these years. This is kind of stuff that angers me more than quitting on CLE craps, taking advantage of his fame, using people who are supposed to be busy and serving for citizens to do something totally meaningless like getting him to Jay Z crapcert, and then talking like he deserves it in the vid. Just dumbfucking move.

Oh yes, cops say they gonna investigate it but ain't nothing gonna happen, I know. Some idiots in Miami claim it's something the city could do for him because he gave them a lot. LoLLol

[Jackal]

LoL KING JAMES is the best!! the city of Miami shud do this for him all the time he put them on this back and made them the best and he is royalty in miami but you guys dont live there so you dont know but i was at this sportsbar and he was giving an interview and i swear this chick next to me was having orgasm after orgasm just listening to him speak

i gotta admit i got a bit wet too, the way his forehead shines just makes it clear he is a star and is hair to stay

[SoF'nAwesome]

Wow IN HEAT men, that is are so cool

[shadowgrin]

LeBron and anyone who thinks what LeBron did was cool is a moron for wasting the time of those officers by escorting LeBron instead of doing more serious police work and Jay-Z is also a moron for not wanting to start the concert on time without LeQuit.


Kobe takes his own helicopter just to beat the LA traffic instead of wasting taxpayers money. Fact.

[Jackal]

so f'n awesome i get youre infatuated but hop off my dick son jesus you piece of paper

[Andrew]

Jay-Z is also a moron for not wanting to start the concert on time without LeQuit.

LeBron's fault for choosing the Heat over the Nets.

[NovU]

My question is how did LBJ come in contact with police in the first place. He was stuck in traffic, did the cop somehow find him and offer him a quick route? Hmmmm...

[Andrew]

Probably.

[shadowgrin]

When you're as TOO BIG as LeBron James you're bound to have the personal contact numbers of a few law enforcement officers serving in the area you work and live in.

[Patr1ck]

It most likely involves some kind of pocketbook thing.

[NovU]

I am now guessing it's also the work of Jay Z. I think he's a powerful influential person who can actually pull this kind of bureaucratic moves.
LeBron Got Police Escort Because Jay Z Refused to Start Concert Until He Arrived

[SoF'nAwesome]

You guys are making it sound like that LeBron forced the cops to stay with him for 24hrs and in that time, all hell broke loose in Miami. 24 killed, 52 injured or something like that just because the cops weren't on-duty in that short time. The cops just escorted him to the concert, that's all. And how long did that escort actually take? At max, 1 hour? That could have been doughnut hour.

LeBron and anyone who thinks what LeBron did was cool is a moron for wasting the time of those officers by escorting LeBron instead of doing more serious police work

Those guys who escorted him would have been probably bored just from sitting around all day anyway. And keep in mind, no bad crime did actually happen from those policemen doing the escort. I get your point, though...how it's not their job and stuff. But this sort of "service" is very common among influential people. And why are you calling Jay-Z a moron, man? Would you have started the concert if you knew that your best friend benji was on his way to your concert?

so f'n awesome i get youre infatuated but hop off my dick son jesus you piece of paper

"Son"? Yes, because I'm the immature one here. That won't be happening as long as you are "IN HEAT" bro. It's up to you to be normal. I don't have anything against that. But I have a feeling that you enjoy being a Grammar Nazi.

[_Steve_]

After all he's just a basketball player. He's not the Pope or something like that. He doesn't need to be escorted by the police.

[Andrew]

Meanwhile, the stress of almost missing the concert has caused LeBron to go completely bald.

[Jackal]

he's doing that because he has swag!! this year is gonna be awesome because his headband will be in a different position so he will play amazing

[NovU]

That's awesome. LoL

Looks sorta like Joel tho. I hope players get don't get confused on the court.

[Stress Fracture]

I hope Oden doesn't do the same.

[benji]

You guys are making it sound like that LeBron forced the cops to stay with him for 24hrs and in that time, all hell broke loose in Miami. 24 killed, 52 injured or something like that just because the cops weren't on-duty in that short time. The cops just escorted him to the concert, that's all. And how long did that escort actually take? At max, 1 hour? That could have been doughnut hour.
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Those guys who escorted him would have been probably bored just from sitting around all day anyway. And keep in mind, no bad crime did actually happen from those policemen doing the escort. I get your point, though...how it's not their job and stuff. But this sort of "service" is very common among influential people.

The "elite" should not be able to commander public resources for personal use anymore than any other citizen. Especially when their doing so does things like shut down traffic.

These things are more important in the long term scope than in any immediate short term effect. It helps promote a two-tier society and culture. The police already have a long difficult struggle with this concept and encouraging it is not just financially harmful but literally dangerous.

Anyone involved in this should be fired and prosecuted. We'll start the charges with "misuse of public funds" and pile on anything else we can attach from there. For LeBron and his entourage we'll start with "conspiracy" and do the same. You know, to make sure there's no double standard.

[SoF'nAwesome]

benji, you are taking it too seriously. It's not really that deep. Not for people to get fired and obviously not worthy of "conspiracy" tag. And it's nothing new. This happens all the time, everywhere in the US. Especially, in LA. Seeing a sports athlete do it is a bit new. But if a music artist can have it, then...

You guys are saying all this just because it's LeBron. If it was Kobe, then everybody would be cool about it.

he's doing that because he has swag!! this year is gonna be awesome because his headband will be in a different position so he will play amazing

Word! God bless your mouth. IN HEAT ROCKS!!

[NovU]

It's actually not because it's LBJ. People like me are only mad at him because the problem is bigger than him and he wasn't smart enough to realize it. LBJ otherwise should be the least of concerns.

[benji]

benji, you are taking it too seriously. It's not really that deep. Not for people to get fired and obviously not worthy of "conspiracy" tag.

Absolutely people should be fired for this. The police are public servants with specific general purpose tasks, these tasks do not include being an escort for the elite and especially do not include shutting down a PUBLIC thoroughfare for the benefit of the elite. This is literally the definition of "misuse of public funds" in most places.

And it's nothing new. This happens all the time, everywhere in the US. Especially, in LA. Seeing a sports athlete do it is a bit new. But if a music artist can have it, then...

Oh, so that makes it okay? Gross violations of the public trust are okay because, hey, it happens all the time! Nothing to see here.

You guys are saying all this just because it's LeBron. If it was Kobe, then everybody would be cool about it.

I'm not cool about it when it's the fucking President, pissants like LeBron getting the treatment is just a further and openly blatant symptom of the disease.