On March 30, 2006, Griffin was involved in a bizarre car crash. Filling in the ignominious circumstances preceding the collision, witnesses and friends stated that he was watching a "pornographic movie on a DVD in his vehicle, and was masturbating.". After the accident, he proceeded to enter a nearby convenience store, where, as per the store's security camera footage, he lamented his being drunk and without driver's license to the clerk; it also showed Griffin begging the man whose SUV he had struck not to call the police and promising to buy the gentleman a new car in exchange.