Tuesday November 20, 2007

Here is Mike Tyson heading to jail – where he was forced to wear pink underpants!

The fallen boxing superstar was sentenced to a day in jail after being pulled over by police with a stash of cocaine in Scottsdale, Arizona.

And the former heavyweight champ was sent to America’s toughest jail – where he will be forced to wear pink underwear, a black and white striped uniform and eating a 18 cent dinner that is so bad inmates dub it “gruel”.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio also insisted the star will not get the short-stint in jail that other stars like Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan have faced recently.

“We don’t house celebrities for 84 minutes like they do in Hollywood,” Sheriff Arpaio says.

Ironically, this will not be Tyson’s first time in at Maricopa County Jail, widely known as Tent City for the tents that house many of the inmates.

He came in 1999 – to talk to inmates about staying out of trouble. “Apparently he didn’t listen to his own advice,” Arpaio says.