Gilbert Arenas Arrested

[MonkManiac]

Originally Posted by Longtimefan

While this is such a minor incident, I still do not understand why professional athletes feel the need to identify themselves as athletes when they get arrested for whatever reason. Is it supposed to soften the blow or what?

Who knows what the context of his "I'm a professional athlete, don't arrest me" speech is. It sounds like everyone is getting arrested this weekend in Miami Beach, imagine how little time these officers are actually spending on these police reports. For all we know, these sentences could have been spaced out over several minutes, and not necessarily even directly connected to each other.

I'm hopeful this is the case, because I love Gilbert Arenas and don't want to hear about him acting like a pompous dick.