Beckstreet’s Beck (Alright!)

In simpler times…

O.J. Simpson was arrested for armed robbery this past Sunday. To sum up the events, some people stole some of O.J.’s memorabilia so he and his buddies got together and stole it back. It seems the major point of contention is whether people in O.J.’s posse (I feel like this constitutes a posse) carried guns or not.

Here’s what the Juice told the Los Angeles times, “I’m O.J. Simpson. How am I going to think that I’m going to rob somebody and get away with it?”

Don’t know, O.J. Maybe the whole getting away with double murder thing might have something to do with it. Just a guess.

Setting aside the obvious irony in Simpson’s quote, it would seem at first that there is some truth behind it. Simpson likely lives under increased scrutiny, and there’s probably no one the Los Angeles police would rather arrest for armed robbery. So it does seem logical that Simpson would realize he’d never get away with the crime.

The problem with that reasoning is that Simpson isn’t logical - he’s full on crazy. And it’s our fault. He’s probably been called a murderer by some random stranger nearly every day for the past 11 years. Every time he goes out in public he knows what everyone staring at him is thinking.

Now 60 years old, I think this constant notoriety has squeezed all the pulp out of the Juice’s brain. If you look at the past couple of years he’s really started to act irrational - like his decision to write a book titled If I Did It. Even if the motive behind the book was monetary, he couldn’t have been all there and still think it was a good idea.

If he were thinking clearly, why would Simpson subject himself to appearing on a local radio call-in show? You almost feel bad for him watching his reactions to those prank calls - but he had to have seen them coming, right? Who knows, maybe he really is senile, this whole robbery was a mistake and he was just looking for the real killers.

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