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Dwight Howard runs 10 red lights, not in a row, and has Florida driver license suspended for not paying fine
This isn’t just dumb. This is insight into Dwight Howard’s undeserved sense of entitlement.
The Houston Rockets center can’t drive his car in Florida for a while, legally at least, as his license has been suspended after he failed to pay a fine tied to one of his 10 citations for failure to stop at red lights.
Howard, who played for the NBA's Orlando Magic from 2004 to 2012, racked up 10 tickets for running red lights while in the Orlando area.
He also has on his Orlando court record four speeding tickets, 12 citations for failing to pay highway tolls and one for failing to change his address on his license, all civil traffic infractions.
Howard’s fine? It was for $285. That’s a chunk of change, a car payment to most of us, but one that is more than reasonable enough to pay for those even working with a car that owes monthly payments along those lines. Dwight Howard made over $20 million last season.
Now, we all tend to go 10 percent over the speed limit on the highway. And one member of the Dwyer household, I won’t name names, recently had her license threatened to be suspended because she forgot that she picked up a $10 parking ticket nearly a year ago, and spaced out on paying it.
Running that many (or any) red lights, though, is an indication of character. It’s the work of someone that thinks they know better, that the road ahead and to the side is safe even with that person breaking the law. People that think they’re just fine to run a red light, roll through a stop sign or fail to use turn signals – just because they think nobody is around, and that these are safe practices – are the worst kind of drivers. They’re entitled misanthropes who think no harm can come from their guesswork.
Or, most likely more specifically, that no harm can come to them, because it’s all about them.
Or, if we can get even more specific, that no police officers are around. Because if you t-bone some peasant in a smaller car, you can just write out a check. You’re Dwight Howard. You’re untouchable, at the top of that SUV.
UPDATE: Yesterday it was revealed that one of the tickets was issued during the 2013-14 season, on a night where Dwight was playing an entire time zone away. Later, TMZ issued this update of sorts:
But Dwight's rep tells us they can explain the April incident -- his BROTHER was driving the car at the time. Dwight was in Houston playing the Spurs.
In fact, records now show the fine has been paid (after our story went up) and his license has been reinstated. Total cost to Dwight -- $345.
We asked about the other 9 violations ... but Dwight's people told us they're not sure who was driving the car back then. A rep for Dwight tells us he bought the car for his brother to use.
So, the nine other violations have yet to be accounted for, and as Reuters reported this week they all occurred when Dwight was living in Florida and playing for the Orlando Magic. Either way, somebody's being dumb and dangerous at the same time.
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