10 worst Justin Bieber boo-boos

June 17, 2016 at 3:36PM
Justin Bieber appeared in court via video feed in Miami in January 2014.
File-This Jan. 23, 2014, file photo shows Justin Bieber appearing in court via video feed in Miami. Video of Bieber at a South Florida police station after his January arrest is expected to be made public, with some sensitive parts omitted. Miami-Dade County prosecutors said DVDs of about 10 hours of video will be made public Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014. (AP Photo/The Miami Herald, Walter Michot, File) (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

The pop star has made a lot of mistakes in his career. Here are the highlights.

1. The star was caught on video supposedly peeing in a mop bucket in a nightclub kitchen, laughing with his friends, and yelling "[expletive] Bill Clinton!" (2013)

2. Bieb's threw eggs at a neighbor's mansion in Calabasas, Calif. He paid $80,000 in restitution, attended anger management classes, sold the house to Khloe Kardashian and moved into a Los Angeles hotel room. (2014)

3. Biebs and his entourage got booted from the Mayan pyramids in Tulum, Mexico, for pulling his pants down and climbing into an off-limits area. He claimed they were simply taking photos of themselves mooning each other. (2016)

4. After visiting the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam, he untastefully tweeted: "Truly inspiring to be able to come here. Anne was a great girl. Hopefully she would have been a belieber." (2013)

5. Bieber's monkey, Mally, was taken by German customs officials after the star tried to bring it on tour without the proper paperwork. The monkey was placed in a wildlife sanctuary. (2013)

6. He commands $2,000 for fans to come meet and greet him backstage at concerts and then he cancelled them because he "feels like a zoo animal." (2016)

7. "Why the [expletive] are you doing this to me? I ain't got no [expletive] weapons," Biebs told a Miami cop who'd arrested him. Because Bieb's Lamborghini was racing a Ferrari in a residential neighborhood (speed estimated at 55 to 60 mph in a 30 mph zone) and the 19-year-old's eyes were bloodshot and he smelled of booze. And his driver license was expired. (2014)

8. He shared photos on Instagram of himself spray painting a wall in Brazil. The crime comes with a fine and up to a year in jail, he pretty much did the same thing the week before in Colombia. (2013)

9. Paparazzi, those devoted Beliebers, photographed him leaving a brothel in Rio De Janeiro. (2013)

10. At a special acoustic show in his hometown of Toronto, he blanked mid-song on the words to his own song "Christmas Eve." "What the [expletive] are the words?" he asked a room full of young people. (2015)

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Jon Bream

Critic / Reporter

Jon Bream has been a music critic at the Star Tribune since 1975, making him the longest tenured pop critic at a U.S. daily newspaper. He has attended more than 8,000 concerts and written four books (on Prince, Led Zeppelin, Neil Diamond and Bob Dylan). Thus far, he has ignored readers’ suggestions that he take a music-appreciation class.

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