Every Mondy, Ikeepsitral will feature a new sports figure who keepsitral. This week... Bob Probert. Widely known as being one of the best, if not the best fighter and enforcer to ever play hockey, in 16 NHL seasons he fought 285 NHL fights with a record of 176-50-59 and many enforcers considered him the toughest and most feared fighter in the NHL and with an un-matched penchant for running the goaltender. He also kept it RAL off the ice, in 1989 he was arrested for cocaine possession while crossing the Detroit-Windsor border. He served three months in a federal prison in Minnesota, three more months in a halfway house, and was indefinitely suspended from the NHL. While playing for the Detroit Red Wings in the 1980s and early '90s, Probert served a prison term when he was caught trying to carry cocaine into the United States from Canada. He also had an alchohol problem and was charged with numerous driving offences. Probert was placed on inactive status for the 1994-95 season after he was involved in a motorcycle accident and tests showed alcohol and cocaine in his system. In 2004 Delray Beach police officers spotted Probert as he parked his white BMW sport utility vehicle the wrong way on a downtown side street and began hanging out of his window to yell at several men just before 1 a.m., officers said. Four officers intervened when Probert, a native of Windsor, Ont., got out of the car and tried to start a fight with one of the men. He then fought with the officers and refused their orders to drop to the ground, the report said. As two of the officers struggled to handcuff Probert, one officer shot him with a Taser gun and he fell backward. But Probert resisted their efforts when they tried to handcuff him, so the cop used the Taser to stun Probert several more times. The gun shoots barbed probes that give the recipient a usually non-lethal but incapacitating shock. After Probert was shocked, officers handcuffed him and took him into custody. "He was so combative in our jail that we didn't take a booking photo of him because we didn't want to struggle with him again out of handcuffs," police spokesman Jeff Messer said. Probie lives the RAL lifestyle to the fullest.
Probie Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Probert
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