Ed Belfour picks a fight with a cop

Posted on Mon Apr 09, 2007 at 12:17:17 PM EST in NHL
More on: Ed Belfour, NHL, Panthers, crime (all tags)

There must be something in the Miami water system that makes athletes go nuts because James Posey wasn't the only athlete to get wasted and do something stupid last night.

Ed Belfour was arrested early this morning after he refused to leave a South Beach bar and decided that he would settle the dispute in a good ol' slugfest, just like on the ice. Belfour took a "fighting stance" and shoved the police officer who was to assist him from the club. Then the Florida Panthers goalie really started resisting.

Belfour pulled away from the officer trying to arrest him and grabbed his shirt. The hockey player then fell forward on the ground, kicking and refusing to place his hands behind his back, the report said.

The skirmish ended when the cop zapped the blitzed Belfour with a Taser gun. Very becoming, you stay classy Eddie.

Police reported that Belfour had slurred speech, blood shot eyes and smelled of alcohol and charged him with disorderly intoxication and resisting an officer without violence. Too bad there's no "resisting an officer with a tantrum" charge on the books.

Belfour's partner in crime was teammate Ville Peltonen who got picked up on charges of criminal mischief after snapping a pole off a fire truck. But who cares, after all he didn't even get electrocuted.

Links:
[MSNBC]: Belfour arrested after trying to fight cop
[Local10.com]: Panther players arrested in alleged police scuffle

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