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Chris Brown May Have Waxed Floors as Part of His Community Service, Says Daycare Worker
Singer Chris Brown attends the 40th American Music Awards held at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on November 18, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images)
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Earlier this week, news broke that the Los Angeles County District Attorney, Jackie Lacey, was requesting that Chris Brown finish his community service in Los Angeles because sufficient documentation hadn't been provided to indicate that he completed his hours in Virginia, as he was supposed to do.
Now, the person who was allegedly quoted as saying that Brown didn't do his community service is saying that it's possible Brown did do what he was supposed to do -- but it might have been when the supervisor wasn't looking.
Neil Cobb waxes floors at Tappahannock Children’s Center, where Brown was supposed to be carrying out his hours. Cobb had previously been quoted as saying that, "Chris never helped me do floors at the Tappahannock Children’s Center."
But the gossip site caught up with him again, and got some new information regarding the case. Cobb says that his words were taken out of context, and that all he meant was that Brown didn't wax the floors with Cobb, not that he didn't wax them at all:
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"It's not that I said the guy didn't do his community service. All my statement was is, he didn't do it while I was there. I'm in and out of the daycare center all weekend long. So 'he didn't do it with me' doesn't mean he didn't do his community service...People is twisting and turning this around, and I never said the guy didn't do his community service."
When asked by the reporter if he had ever seen Brown at the daycare center waxing floors, Coob replied:
"Never saw him there...he never helped me. He mighta did floors, but he didn't do it with me."
The reporter went on to ask if Cobb could tell whether the floors had been freshly waxed after the last time that Cobb did them:
TMZ: Can you tell if floors have been done over what you have done? Cobb: No. They haven't.
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Brown's sentence for community service came after his infamous beating of Rihanna in 2009. Rihanna joined him in court recently though, making it look as though the two have reconciled.
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