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Post by Ivory Fair on May 22, 2003 22:43:57 GMT -5
Early this morning, Tennessee Titan quarterback Steve McNair was arrested for DUI, having a blood alcohol leven almost twice the legal limit AND carrying a loaded 9 in the car. www.wkrn.com/Global/story.asp?S=1291323&nav=1ugFFzcYI was watching a local call in show a little while ago and was AMAZED :hairraiser: at the number of callers who said the police were TOO hard on him and that they should have just given him a warning and just sent his DRUNK BEHIND on his way. Are we really that star-obsessed in this country that we're willing to actually give celebrities better treatment than we'd be given ourselves?  |
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Post by sukkafu on May 23, 2003 0:45:07 GMT -5
ivory fair- did i mistakenly give you some of my blood? it is amazing that you would say that ! thank you for expressing that opinion! i agree with you!
double standard it is- michael jackson flew into indiana for a lawsuit against the j5 when they allegedly were using their 1st promoter's band name of ripples and waves to reissue some pre motown material. his lawyer wanted everything done secretly and the deposition to be hush hush from the public. but then michael went out to the mall and signed autographs.then michael got sick according to a spokesman who said all thi s legal stuff is driving michael to nervousness and ill health.
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Post by iratherlikeme on May 23, 2003 0:52:37 GMT -5
Was the gun registered?
I'm not even surprised at the way people treat celebrities who commit crimes. Still, I believe that the people who commit non-offending crimes (ones that haven't killed anyone or caused any harm) need rehabilitation and not jail time. Just me.
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Post by sukkafu on May 23, 2003 1:04:21 GMT -5
i know what you meant southern niece, but if you read what you just said, you said ''that they need rehabilitation not jail time. just me.''
i was thinking that some freak would say- wow i want rehabilitation with just irlm!
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Post by iratherlikeme on May 23, 2003 1:06:31 GMT -5
Ivory said no one-liners.... :laughing:
LOL, I did, didn't I? Whoops.
This will make it three. ;D
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Post by sukkafu on May 23, 2003 1:26:56 GMT -5
well, it is late in mississippi! wee small hours of the morning!
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Post by Ivory Fair on May 23, 2003 9:05:14 GMT -5
LOL! @ Sukka
IRLM, the gun was registered, but he was still drunk. In TN it's illegal to have firearm in your possession when you're intoxicated, or even on the premises where liquor is being served.
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Post by Aba21 on May 23, 2003 10:41:35 GMT -5
Try this.......I know about both sides of the fence. Special treatment means not putting it in the paper either. If it was you it wouldn't make the paper. The crime doesn't change and he shouldn't be driving drunk with a gun but again if it was you it wouldn't be in the paper. I bet you if there was a passenger in the car their name didn't make the paper! Air McNair and unidentified passenger was stopped by local authourities and McNair was found to be intoxicated with a gun in his possesion. That's how it probably read and that 's how it always reads. And to answer the question no he shouldn't get special treatment.
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Post by Ivory Fair on May 23, 2003 15:16:48 GMT -5
I know about both sides of the fence.Yeah, I've been waiting for your two cents. If it was you it wouldn't make the paper. I beg your pardon! *I* am Ivory Fair!!! Geeze! Get in the inner circle and you start treating me like normal folks!! ;D ........... Trust me, next time I run a red light, CNN will break in with live coverage saying, "Ivory Fair runs red light .......... unnamed former POW in the car."  Seriously, let me throw it back on you. You think Steve's never used his celebrity to promote himself in the paper? I mean, even if it were for something charitable which of course would be a GOOD thing. You can't have it both ways.
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Post by kalisa2 on May 23, 2003 15:35:52 GMT -5
I think Aba is saying you can't have it both ways about the "special treatment" either. If you're so special you get special publicity for an indiscretion that wouldn't make the paper at all if your name weren't attached to it, then maybe you DO deserve "special treatment" legally.
Not saying I agree, but I can comprehend the reasoning.
On the other hand, the laws of this country were supposedly made for everyone, equally. Ahem... OK, now that you've all picked yourselfs up off the floor from laughing so hard at that...the ideals of fair play in publicity are pretty much unenforceable, and they aren't really rules or laws.
ok, I'm rambling here. But Joe Blow that nobody cares about probably can't afford a lawyer to finagle "special treatment" for his client as can some of the big name, deep pocketed offenders. Nevermind that some of the hot shot lawyers would work for almost free for the big names, just to attach their own names to a famous client.
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Post by sukkafu on May 23, 2003 17:43:25 GMT -5
ivory, you would be the unnamed driver and your hero of a pow would be the one they noised about.
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Post by MikeNYC on May 23, 2003 22:48:03 GMT -5
Maybe that's the gun that they thought Eddie Kendricks had! Nobody saw it in the book that Posner wrote? :read:
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Post by Aba21 on May 24, 2003 0:11:03 GMT -5
You mean all this time I been talking to the REAL Ivory freakin' Fair! You got to be kidding me! I had no idea it was really you! I'm impressed!!!! ;D
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Post by Ivory Fair on May 24, 2003 0:21:53 GMT -5
In the flesh! :dancing:
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Post by sukkafu on May 24, 2003 1:13:16 GMT -5
in the cyber flesh!
oh ive- i have booked you in bermuda for a week to play your instrument for 5 concerts. what do you play in bermuda- what else -the triangle! ;D
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