PHILADELPHIA - Eagles linebacker Dhani Jones couldn't stop dancing, and it led to his arrest early Sunday morning in Miami Beach. Jones was arrested at 2:54 a.m. and charged with failing to obey a lawful command, according to the police report.

Jones was dancing with an unidentified female in the middle of the street in front of the Snatch Rock `n' Roll Bar and Lounge.

According to Miami Beach police spokesman Robert Hernandez, Jones was obstructing traffic. The charge is a misdemeanor.

"He and a female were dancing in the street," Hernandez said Monday night. "When asked to leave, the female figured it out and left, but he kept dancing in the street by himself."

Hernandez said that a situation like this isn't unusual, especially in the heart of spring break season. However, it's not every day that this happens to a 28-year-old starting NFL linebacker.

"We are pretty tolerant with things like this, but he just refused to get out of the street, and the cars couldn't get through," Hernandez said.

"I don't know if he took us seriously, but once you put the handcuffs on somebody, that has a humbling effect," Hernandez said.

Jones was taken to the Miami Beach Police Department's temporary holding facility.

"Since he was very apologetic, we just decided to let him sign [an affidavit] with the promise to appear in court for arraignment," Hernandez said.

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Now if the...ahem...Snatch Bar was playing any of the following tunes when this occurred...

I Can't Stop Dancing - Archie Bell & the Drells
Let's Dance - David Bowie
Dancing Machine - Jackson 5
Dancing in the Street - Martha & the Vandellas

...the charges should be dropped immediately.

Especially if Dancing with Mr. D by the Rolling Stones was spinning because it would be obvious that Mr. Jones was under the influence of Lucifer himself.

If this goes to court, Dhani might try reciting these lines from the Re-Flex tune to the judge.

We got the message
I heard it on the airwaves
The politicians
Are now DJ's

The broadcast was spreading
Station to station
Like an infection
Across the nation

Well you know you can't stop it
When they start to play
You gotta get out the way

The politics of dancing
The politics of ooo feeling good
The politics of moving
Is this message understood?

Worst comes to worst he'll get a "not guilty by reason of insanity" verdict.






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That is hilarious! You know there used to be a time in South Beach,particularly right at 12th St. where the police station is located, that you had all SORTS of colorful people wandering around and they would do that kinda stuff for REAL and get away with it, cause nobody CARED! ...but that was back in SoBe's bohemian heyday, when we were the adopted "bastid" children of all those crazie snow bird folks left over from era of the Studio 54 and Regine's...Not only would you see people busting a move on Washington Ave, but folks used to come to the clubs and parlour rooms with SHOULDER MONKEYS, supermodels used to grope each other on trapeze swings at the Warsaw Ballroom, and you could ALWAYS find a long legged blond draped on the piano in a couture dress- in the basement jazz joint at the Waldorf on 9th & Ocean....

I guess now it's so overcrowded and commercialzed it's totally unacceptable for a brotha to just break out dancing in the street...for no apparent reason . Pity, that place never will really be the same, I guess...

Ottensen said:

I guess not.

Are you in the Miami area?


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theAudience said:

In Atlanta's Buckhead area, on Friday and Saturday nights certain streets are closed off so that people can enjoy themselves in the street if they choose to.....that's too bad about Miami, but I guess the law is the law....

Unsportsmanlike Conduct and 10 yards tacked on the extra point is all he should get.

That gives new meaning to the term "dancing fool."

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Ottensen said:

I guess not.

Are you in the Miami area?


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Nope! I expatriated myself to Europe a few years ago, one of the reasons being that I really felt a lot of the creative stimuli of that place had been lost for a long time. I am one of the kids who was lucky enough to live there in that weird, "Fellini-esque" golden period that we people now aged 33+ speak of in hushed tones and smiling whispers...it was an AMAZING time that I am convinced can never be duplicated there again, especially by this commercially overrun group of developement thugs that took over in the late 1990's. I think Miami Beach has to go through another weird, depressed period like they did between the 1960's -1980's to get that flavor back...you know when the vapid crowd didn't want to flock there. There was nobody but old lady retirees, jazz singers, black midwesterners who knew how to throw a REAL house party, brazilian beach bums, drag queens and performance artists, and of course, debaucherous jet set types traveling igcognito but not afraid to ask you for a cigarette if they were standing behind you in the line for cuban expresso...

...aaaah,those were the days... I'm telling you, it was enough to write a good memoir, old skool style... [

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theAudience said:

Sounds like it was a hip vibe.
As long as I lived in Florida I never went down to Miami.
Probably because i'd just left NYC and was trying to "slow it down".


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