Pretty Ricky member Spectacular Blue Smith was arrested on Monday after allegedly assaulting an employee at Walt Disney World who asked him to stop joking about the coronavirus.
According to TMZ, the 35-year-old singer was at the resort’s Animal Kingdom theme park on Monday night, waiting in line, when he walked past a Disney World employee and pretended to sneeze and then said “coronavirus.”
When the employee allegedly told Smith his joke wasn’t funny, he responded, “I thought it was.”
According to the arrest affidavit, the employee then told Smith, “Then you’ll think it’s hilarious if I asked you to step out of the line,” but Smith refused to exit the line.
The two men argued for a few moments before the employee put his arm out in an attempt to block Smith from continuing in the line, at which point, Smith then allegedly “turned and punched him on his right side jaw and right temple area,” according to the affidavit.
The park employee told police that he stumbled and fell and said he “was in shock and thought he might’ve lost consciousness.” He was taken to Horizon West Hospital and diagnosed with a concussion after undergoing a CT scan, the affidavit said.
Smith was ultimately arrested on a charge of misdemeanor battery and with a bond set at $500.
