Josh Cribbs Is Taking Down Corruption

Written by Ashley Burns / 06.22.11

Josh Cribbs is living through this lockout the best he can. He’s working out, training hard, and doing what he can to be completely screwed over by the new kickoff rules, but he’s done it all while keeping a low profile. Until now. What started out as a simple trip to get a haircut has turned into one of the biggest athlete scandals in the history of professional sports. Josh Cribbs… got a parking ticket.

But this isn’t just any ordinary $15 parking ticket. Cribbs says that this ticket is undeserved and is a clear, shining example of a corrupt Cleveland police department that he must now wage war against to save the people of Cleveland, lest they forever be subject to unfair parking fines.

“I was at the barber and I went outside to put a quarter in the meter. I saw I had a parking ticket. But there was eight minutes left on the meter, I was highly upset,” said Cribbs.

“I wrote, ‘not guilty!’ I made sure to take pictures with time stamps,” laughs Cribbs. “I got a lot of response. People saying the Cleveland Heights Police Department is notorious for writing out tickets, people who have been wronged.”

“Well, since this is a lockout, I have the time to fight for Cleveland, fight for the blue collar workers here, and I think it’s wrong and I am trying to stand up for those who can’t,” said Cribbs. (Fox 8 Cleveland)

As Cribbs points out, it costs $50 to fight a $15 parking ticket in Cleveland, so he’s taking it upon himself to save thousands of his neighbors $35 each. But this isn’t simply a case of a hero taking down the corrupt law. Not if the police have anything to say about it.

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LeBron Watch: Josh Cribbs Is A Witness

Written by JOSH Z / 06.08.10

Josh Cribbs witnessmobile lebron james

Here’s Cleveland Browns kick returner Joshua Cribbs signing the “Witnessmobile,” that white four-doored petition driving around northeast Ohio collecting signatures asking for LeBron James to not LeGetTheHellOuttaTown. I can see LeBron now, sitting in a press conference leaning over that New York Knicks contract, and then right before the pen hits the paper, the Witnessmobile and its signatures come crashing through the wall like the Kool-Aid Man. LeBron sees the car and, instead of signing his way out of his home state, jumps into the shotgun seat and rides off into the sunset. That guy’s gonna look like an ass when James heads for Chicago. –via Black Sports Online.

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