The Lucky Punter

What does All-Star NBA center Shaquille O’Neal do in his spare time? Sip Hennessy at da club? Cruise up and down South Beach on a wave runner? Ask D Wade for free-throw shooting tips? No fool! He is a Bedford County (Va) sheriff’s deputy and a member of Operation Blue Ridge Thunder, the department’s Internet Crimes Against Children task force. That’s right - Shaq spends his spare time trying to put a stop to kiddie porn.

Certainly a noble cause, no question. However, Shaq and his Blue Thunder boyz got some bad info recently which led to them knocking down the door of an innocent farmer. Shaq and the “para-military search-and-seizure team” busted in on A.J. Nuckols of Gretna, Va and according to the poor farmer, was “held at gunpoint, searched and taunted before he and his wife and children were interrogated”.

Damn, I mean it’s bad enough to have your little farmhouse busted in on and have a bunch of cops - probably full of Red Bull - get in your grill about being a child porn deviant. But for one of the cops to be a 7-1, 325 pound behemoth named Shaq? I think its safe to say Mr. Nuckols won’t be tuning in to ESPN’s coverage of the NBA anytime soon.