MINNEAPOLIS – Minnesota Timberwolf basketball player Eddie Griffin smashed into a parked car while masturbating to a pornographic movie he was watching while driving his Cadillac Escalade after a game with the Orlando Magic, a married couple claims in Federal Court.

The couple claims Griffin was drunk at the time – 2:20 a.m. on March 30 – that he tried to persuade a witness to cancel a 911 call about the accident, and that his drunken behavior was caught on a store’s video surveillance system, “including stating the word ‘whatever’ 69 times.” They claim that the Timberwolves “employ a former Minneapolis police officer, Bob Goedderz,” who in the weekend after the accident “attempted to remove Defendant Griffin’s severely damaged Cadillac Escalade from the Minneapolis impound lot in part to prevent plaintiffs from securing evidence of the pornography”.

They say the officers who responded to the accident call laughed upon seeing the porno CDs – “Anal Action” and “Privates” – in Griffin’s car. They also sue those officers and acting Police Chief Timothy Dolan. Their leased SUV suffered $17,000 damage, they say. They are represented by Michael Padden of Minneapolis and Kenneth White of Mankato.