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Goodness gracious, this photo has just about everything that we love here at LBS. We’ve got O.J. Simpson, a tattoo, and a mug shot. That’s like hitting the LBS jackpot.

According to Sports Kings, diehard Buffalo Bills fan Bryan Labarron spent nine hours getting tattooed with this amazing image. In case you’re unfamiliar, this mug shot was the one taken on June 17, 1994, after Simpson was implicated in the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.

Below is a side-by-side comparison of the tattoo and actual mug shot:

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While I know very little about life inside the walls of a prison, I have heard enough stories to know that there are several ways you can become popular and several ways you can fall out of grace. OJ Simpson may have found a way to increase his standing among his peers on Super Bowl Sunday.

According to the NY Post, Simpson held a Super Bowl viewing party in his jail cell at Lovelock Correctional Center in Nevada. He is reportedly one of the few inmates who has his own TV, so he invited several friends to cram into his 80-square-foot cell to watch the Baltimore Ravens defeat the San Francisco 49ers.

“If you have the money, you can buy a TV at the inmate store and put it in your cell,” the former NFL star’s producer friend Norman Pardo told the Post. “He’s like the Godfather of the prison now.”

Simpson is serving a 33-year sentence for kidnapping and armed robbery, so he could be there a while. A TV set was probably a solid investment, especially if it helps protect him from his fears of being killed by Aryan Warriors gang members while behind bars.

I haven’t exactly done my followup on this story, but this nugget is just too good to pass up. According to some magazine called The Globe, O.J. Simpson is using some of his Nordberg charm on a new lady, despite being in jail! As the story says, he may even be planning a marriage. From the Digital Spy:

According to The Globe, the former football player fell for the “young blonde” called Anna despite never meeting her in person.

“They’ve been writing to each other for a while now,” a source said.

“She sent him her photo, and he just flipped for her.”

The 62-year-old will allegedly marry his pen pal while still behind bars in a Nevada prison.

I might have to make like Lieutenant Frank Drebin and get on the inside to witness this one. Knowing O.J., he’ll invite some TV cameras to film them consummating the marriage during a conjugal visit. Hey, at least prison seems to be turning out much better than he expected.

Sources:
OJ Simpson to marry pen pal? [Digital Spy]

I’m sure that having sympathy for O.J. Simpson is high on your agenda. With that in mind, I present the latest twist in the O.J. saga: poor Juice is worried that he might be killed in prison now that he’s awaiting sentencing for his robbery and kidnapping case in Las Vegas. From the ANI:

[O.J.] is said to be a “target” for the brutal Aryan Warriors at Ely State Prison, Nevada. An insider said: “They”re a deadly prison gang whose members want to finally deliver OJ fatal justice. It”ll be like tossing meat to wolves. He”ll be dead within weeks.”
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Guards have put him in an isolation cell at his current Las Vegas jail after he told pals: “I”m a dead man.” He is also on suicide watch.

Suicide. I’m sure that’s exactly what the American public wants from the guy. At least the way O.J.’s going he’ll wind up in prison for a healthy sentence. I’m not so sure death by Aryan Warrior gangs would be proper justice; that’s just too savage for my taste.

I spoke pretty vehemently in the past when OJ’s original book came out urging people NOT to purchase it. Why support that jerkoff? (unless you just wanted the money going to the Goldman family). Thankfully the publisher dropped out after all the initial backlash and the book, far as I know, fizzled. Well, guess that sign wasn’t enough for OJ’s former agent because he’s decided to author a book due out in April:

O.J. Simpson’s former sports agent of 18 years is writing a book: “How I Helped O.J. Get Away With Murder.”

Mike Gilbert’s book will be published by right-wing imprint Regnery, according to the Web site publishersmarketplace.com.

It is due out in April, just in time for the Juice’s armed-robbery trial in Las Vegas.

I honestly wonder how some people can live with themselves. Seriously. Can you believe such scumbags are living amongst us? And how can any sane publisher pick this thing up? I’ll have to make it a point from now on not to buy any Regnery books.

Damn, my entire costume plans, down the drain. The ‘eff am I gonna do now? I was really banking on sporting a polo and some makeshift manboobs, and just topping it off with a mask of The Juice. No such luck, however. Ben Maller informs me via the New York Post that OJ masks will be hard to come by this Halloween:

ABRACADABRA sells plenty of Halloween costumes that are in bad taste, but it draws the line at O.J. Simpson masks. “We wouldn’t even think of it. Sometimes you have to take a stand,” said co-owner Robert Pinzon. But other questionable getups are fine. They include a presidential Hillary Clinton dressed in a man’s suit and puffing on a big cigar; Bill Clinton in drag as the first lady; Rudy Giuliani with a cellphone glued to his ear; and Al Gore with sweat pouring off his face and dancing with a polar bear.

Now someone explain to me why OJ doesn’t make the cut? They’re completely inhibiting my October experience, I hope they realize. And in other news, The Juice at least made the cut for being one of the state’s most wanted tax evaders. No surprise, right? Well, maybe this will get you — he joins Sinbad on the list. How ’bout that?

Other OJ Simpson Madness:
OJ Rocks a Fake Watch
Juice, Busted for Memorabilia Heist
Down Goes the Juice, Down Goes OJ!
You can Buy OJ’s Not-Guilty Suit

Pretty much every penny that OJ earns, he’s supposed to turn over to the Goldmans as part of a settlement for their civil suit, far as I can tell. So when the Goldmans see The Juice rocking some jewelry on his wrist, they want a cut. Problem is, what happens when that watch turns out to be a fake?

Santa Monica judge ordered the former football star to turn over his gold Rolex Submariner watch — estimated to be worth $12,000 to $22,000 — to the family.

But the Hall of Fame running back hit them with a fake — literally — when it was discovered that the luxury timepiece was a knockoff made in China, worth about $125.

Yikes! See, see, people? The guy really doesn’t have money. He’s just a poser! Either that, or he dropped some serious cash on a watch and was had. Either way, it just furthers OJ’s legend, and it really, really sucks for the Goldmans. I’d term the incident an embarrassment, but when it concerns OJ, is anything really an embarrassment at this point?