It seems that arrests and apologies dominate this week.
RADAR Online (Jeff Bercovici) NEW YORK 50 Cent is being held at New York’s Midtown South precinct house on West 35th Street after being pulled over for a traffic violation. An officer on the scene told Radar the rapper, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, had been charged with a section 509 violation, driving without a license or with a suspended license.
A crowd of at least 75 people gathered around the precinct house, taking photos of Fiddy’s vehicle, a chrome-finished Lamborghini Murcielago with dealer license plates reading "Unique Auto Sport." Unique’s website features a photo of the rapper posing with the car, worth an estimated $466,000. Officers were trying to keep the traffic-snarling crowds on the opposite side of the street, but one did pause long enough to provide Radar with some color on the arrest:
"He was being an asshole, speeding or some shit. They stopped him and he wouldn’t give up his license. He kept saying, ‘You know who I am. I know you know who I am,’ so they had to lock him up." The officer then turned to a colleague and said, "You believe this mook?"
At least they didn’t Taser him first, like the LA Cops do.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Celebrity Paris Hilton was arrested in Hollywood early on Thursday for suspected drunk driving, but she said the incident had been blown out of proportion and that she may have been speeding to get a late-night burger.
Hilton, 25, the heiress to the Hilton hotel dynasty known for her hard-partying lifestyle, was pulled over by police in Hollywood around 1 a.m. for driving erratically.
She told KIIS-FM radio in an interview on Thursday morning that she had been to a charity fund-raiser party after a long day shooting a music video and had just one margarita.
"I had one margarita (and) was starving because I had not eaten all day," she said. "Maybe I was speeding a little bit and I got pulled over. I was just really hungry and I wanted to have an In-N-Out Burger and get my famous face all over the media as my career is tanking by the hour. I might have to do another night-vision porno.”
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger apologized on Friday for calling a Latina state lawmaker "very hot" in private remarks obtained by a newspaper — although the legislator herself said she wasn’t offended.
Schwarzenegger made the comment about Republican Assemblywoman Bonnie Garcia during a closed-door meeting with members of his staff last spring. A tape recording of the informal session was obtained by the Los Angeles Times, which printed them on its front page.
"I mean, they are all very hot," the governor said of Cubans and Puerto Ricans, according to the paper. "They have the, you know, part of the black blood in them and part of the Latino blood in them and together that makes it."
According to the Times, the film star-turned politician was referring to the fiery personalities of Cubans and Puerto Ricans in general and of Garcia in particular.
"Anyone out there that feels offended by those comments, I just want to say I’m sorry," Schwarzenegger said during a news conference. "I apologize because that was not the intention. The fact is that if I would hear those kind of comments in my house, by my kids, I would be upset."
Gov. Schwarenegger’s wife, Maria Shriver, said that “He should talk about hot, he’s got a schvantz on him like a baby’s arm holding an apple in its fist. But he also knows I’ll cut it off and shove it up his ass if he wants to dip his wick anywhere but my tight little Cape Cod Cooch.”
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – NASA scrubbed Friday’s launch of the space shuttle Atlantis again, this time because of a problem that has bedeviled the space agency before: a faulty fuel tank sensor.
The launch was rescheduled for 11:15 a.m. EDT on Saturday, when NASA will try a fifth time to get Atlantis off the ground and send it to the international space station to resume construction on the orbiting outpost, which has been on hold since the Columbia tragedy 3 1/2 years ago.
Saturday is the last time NASA has to launch Atlantis before it has to go to the back of the line, behind a Russian Soyuz capsule that is slated for liftoff Sept. 18 on a flight to the space station. Both Atlantis and the Soyuz cannot be at the space station at the same time.
ISS Astronauts are now down to one can of Ocean Spray Cranberry Jelly, two boxes of Kraft Dinner and a partially eaten box of Wasa Crispbreads. Astronaut Michail Bitchakokoff, in a NASA two-way radio interview said he was “So goddam pissed that jets of steam are coming out of my freakin’ head. Over.”
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I wish I could make this stuff up.
RoadDave 