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Brown Begins Community Service

Singer cleans up in Va. as punishment for Rihanna beating

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(Newser) – Singer Chris Brown today began the community labor that’s part of his sentence for beating girlfriend Rihanna, MTV reports, with the singer posting a photo from the work to his Twitter feed. His 6 months of labor will include picking up trash in his native Virginia; Brown, 20, also faces 5 years on probation and a year of domestic-violence counseling.

Brown posted this picture to Twitter today.
Brown posted this picture to Twitter today.   (Twitpic.com)
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Kookey90
Sep 16, 09 7:17 PM CDT
Chris, I hope the chiggers and bugs bite you in the butt as you're clearing out all that brush -you sorry ass SOB. But, overall I assume this beats the other option of you having to pull some bad time in jail; I could see see all those prisoners chasing you around the courtyard. Reply
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Robert_Dada
Sep 16, 09 7:18 PM CDT
F*ck he should be doing community service (at least) for his lame ass music - as should Rihanna. Reply
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OWLWOMANXXXX
Sep 16, 09 7:20 PM CDT
just wish they would have made him do more for battered women shelters Reply
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Reader64481089
Sep 16, 09 11:17 PM CDT
Guys like that should be shackled at the women shelters with their nether regions lain out on an anvil so each woman could sign them with her own personal touch using a baseball bat.....and yea, I hate men who abuse women....all men carry the weight for a few bad ones
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riffran
Sep 17, 09 4:04 AM CDT
I could not agree more with you Mrs. Owl....make him donate a few million...or at least 1-200 grand to a battered womens shelter
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