Brice Sheldon Should Sue Borat

Today we went to the USC Basketball game against Lipscomb. Lipscomb is some tiny college somewhere. They only had about 10 fans at the game, but they were winning at halftime so those 10 fans were pretty loud during the first half.

Whenever South Carolina guard Brice Sheldon (photo at right) got the ball, the Lipscomb fans starting chanting "Borat!" "Borat!" "Borat!" until he passed the ball or shot.

Sheldon looks nothing like the character "Borat" from the movie of the same name, so why were they chanting Borat?

A = Because Sheldon is the only white guy who got into the game for USC and the Borat movie features some idiot USC Frat boys who made asses of themselves, and then in an equally stupid move, sued the movie for making them look like the idiots that they are.

Here is the story:

Humiliated S.C. Frat Boys Sue 'Borat'

Two fraternity members from a South Carolina university are suing over their appearance in the hit movie "Borat," saying they were duped into making racist and sexist remarks.

The legal action filed on their behalf claims they were tricked into appearing in the spoof documentary "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan."

The young men "engaged in behavior that they otherwise would not have engaged in," the lawsuit said.

The plaintiffs were not named in the lawsuit "to protect themselves from any additional and unnecessary embarrassment." They were identified in the movie as fraternity members from a South Carolina university, and appeared drunk as they made insulting comments about women and minorities.

The lawsuit claims that in October 2005, a production crew took the students to a bar to drink and "loosen up" before participating in what they were told would be a documentary to be shown outside of the United States.

"They were induced to agree to participate and were told the name of the fraternity and the name of their school wouldn't be used," said the plaintiffs' attorney, Olivier Taillieu. "They were put into an RV and were made to believe they were picking up Borat the hitchhiker."

After a bout of heavy drinking, the plaintiffs signed a release form they were told "had something to do with liability issues with being in the RV," Taillieu said.

The film "made plaintiffs the object of ridicule, humiliation, mental anguish and emotional and physical distress, loss of reputation, goodwill and standing in the community," the lawsuit said.

The plaintiffs were seeking an injunction to stop the studio from displaying their image and likeness, along with unspecified monetary damages.

"Borat" debuted as the top movie last weekend with $26.5 million.

Todd Bailey, president of the University of South Carolina chapter of Chi Psi, told The (Columbia) State newspaper that one of the two plaintiffs was a member of Chi Psi, while the other had left the university.

Of course the lawsuit is total B.S. as pointed out in this article from The Smoking Gun.

NOVEMBER 13--Justin Seay, one of the many unwitting co-stars of "Borat," would prefer these days to be known only as "John Doe." The University of South Carolina graduate, 24, is one of two former fraternity members to file a lawsuit last week (using the fictitious Doe handle) against the comedy's producers and Twentieth Century Fox. In his lawsuit, Seay contends that last October the "Borat" crew got him and his pals drunk and encouraged them to engage in "behavior that they otherwise would not have engaged in." As a result, Seay/Doe claims that he has suffered humiliation, mental anguish, and emotional and mental distress, for which he wants to be paid damages.

Seay does not seem like an amateur when it comes to partying. On his MySpace page, Seay lists "gettin' drunk and havin' a good time" as one of his interests, along with NASCAR and "pretty much any typical guy stuff." In an August poem to Seay, a friend writes, "Hey Hey Justin Seay, Drinks like a fish everyday!" Another buddy's message opens with the salutation, "Hi Drunk Friend!!!" But it is the photos of Seay that will probably draw the interest of lawyers defending the producers of the movie. Seay, it seems, is rarely photographed without alcohol in his hand.

Seay is the guy on the far right in this photo and as the photo shows, he does "engage" in being a drunk idiot frat boy racist.

The "Borat!" chants definitely affected Brice Sheldon's game. He couldn't hit a shot.

You know what, Sheldon shouldn't sue Borat, he should sue the idiot USC frat boys who appeared in the movie.