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Did Justin Bieber use a wheelchair to skip the lines at Disneyland?

by Tyler Munro

We’ve defended Justin Bieber in the past. He’s just a kid. He’s not really hurting anybody. We were assholes, too, when we were his age, but we did it without the media exposure and millions of dollars making things worse.

But sometimes, you can’t stand up for the guy. Like when he went on an egging spree, drove drunk or assaulted his limo driver. Today, we can add another to the list: According to TMZ, Justin Bieber was carted around in a wheelchair this weekend while at Disneyland, and while his people say he was resting his knee after a basketball injury, the speculation is that he mostly just wanted to skip the lines.

It’s curious, to say the least. Not only do celebrities get to skip the lines whenever they want—insert outrage about our celebrity culture here—but Bieber lives less than a 2 hour drive from the popular theme park. Your knee hurt that bad? Maybe sit this one out—no pun intended.

Worse, TMZ says they came across the scoop when a fan posted an image of the singer captioned “I love how he just pretended to be a normal person on a wheelchair.” So, wait… was this a disguise? Is this “Michael Jackson shops in his pyjamas” all over again? Or was homeboy just too hungover to move those little legs?

Because not long after this story came out was another about police teaching Bieber’s condo neighbours how to perform a citizens’ arrest. The same weekend that saw him wheeling around the place dreams are made also saw police at his building 6 times in 48 hours. On Saturday, Biebs had at least 75 people over, with “bimbos lining up to do drugs in the lobby bathroom” and a monumental mess left on the communal patio. The next day? Wheelchair.