Charles Barkley arrested!!!!

[Kobe™]

[Lakers_55]

It's 11:40 PM New Year's Eve and this is as good a place to post as any....

Tonight, my niece came in to town see her mom, my sister, from the central coast of California, enroute with her husband and infant son to Phoenix, where they will live for a year. They wanted to go out for the evening, and I rarely drink, so I offered to serve as their designated driver. After we all went out to dinner, I left my car at my sister's and we drove off to their favorite bar and I went on home in my sister's car, expecting a call sometime after midnight to pick them up. I got called shortly after getting home as I was posting in lefty's thread in Spurs section. They didn't like the bar. So, I headed on down to get them, seeing many a car pulled over by the local police on the way. I took them to another bar, but they didn't like that one either, so off to the liquor store for some beer for them and home. I promptly left and headed the 2.5 miles back to my place. I made a quick stop at a mini mart, and saw another cop had a "customer" just down the street. As I was leaving, the officer turned around and followed me. As I was signaling to turn left into my driveway, he got behind me and turned on his red lights.

Turns out, I had a brake light out, or so he says. He took my license and ran a check. No problem, of course. He asked me if I had registration and insurance, but didn't make me get them. I told him I was serving as a designated driver tonight and was done for the evening. He didn't even give me a fix-it ticket. I had told my sister they are probably stopping as many people as they can, looking for drunks. Since he could tell I wasn't, he needed to get back on patrol and look for the real offenders. I didn't mind getting pulled over, the officer is just doing his job.

I know what a drunk driving costs you. In California, it will total around $30,000. Your insurance will be high for another 10 years, it stays on your record that long. The arresting officer has the option of impounding your car for 30 days. Even one day will set you back over $200 for towing and storage. 30 days the impound may exceed the value of the car. If you don't pay it, the impound yard will get le to your vehicle, sell it, and sue you in small claims for the difference if any. Your license will be suspended. Your court fine will run around $3,000, if you pay a lawyer a load to get it down that low for you. Usually, if there is an accident involving a DUI, the drunk is loose and usually unharmed, while the sober and innocent driver often loses his life. I wouldn't want that on my conscience for the rest of my life. If you go to jail, keep in mind that more men are raped in jails and prisons every year than women are in free society. If you have a pretty face, you might last an hour unmolested.

Mr. Barkley: What you did was dumb. You need to apologize to your fans and lecture them on the costs and dangers of drunk driving. You can afford the fines you will pay. You were lucky. It could have been a lot worse for you.

It could also be any of us getting a DUI. If you drink, get a designated driver, have blankets and pillows in your car, or call a cab.

Have a happy and safe New Year everyone.

[SmellyFeet]

Barkley does as he pleases, biatch. Save you lecturing for someone who cares.

[Biernutz]

Charles runs with Urkel?

[Kriz-Maxima]

Barkley doesn't have to apologize to anybody.

[Galileo]

Drunk driving should only be illegal if you hit someone.

I was almost killed by a sober driver when I was young, and my mom went through the windshield. My dad was crippled for life. When you get hit, it doesn't matter if the driver is sober or drunk.

All these people getting busted for drunk driving is throwing our economy into recession. Most traffic deaths are caused by sober drivers.

Drunk driving: the only "crime" in history that has no motive, no victim, and no legally proven criminal intent. Even in the insane war on drugs, you must prove criminal intent.

Put drunk driving into the civil courts where it belongs.

Legalize Drunk Driving
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/drunkdriving.html

[Lp26]

So has anyone heard the latest ?

As we mentioned yesterday, former NBA star Charles Barkley was arrested early Wednesday morning on su ion of drunk driving.

But, now, new details have been released and we now know why he was in such a hurry.

Apparently, he was rushing to go get a BLOW JOB!

Barkley told Arizona cops that he was in a hurry to pick up a girl who had "given him a 'blow job' one week earlier." One which he described as "the best one he had ever had in his life."

And according to the Gilbert Police Department report, police asked him just where he was going. He responded with, "You want the truth? I was gonna drive around the corner and get a blow job and 3 grams of coke."

Idiot!

What blowjob is worth an arrest?

He was also heard telling a cop that "I'll tattoo your name on my ass," if it would get him out of the DUI charge.

The idiot Barkley, who once said he planned on running for governor of Alabama, was busted after he failed field sobriety tests.

He was cited for a misdemeanor charge and later released at the scene.

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On a gossip site so who knows, but hilarious nonetheless

[IronMexican]

Chuck is a G.

[Lp26]

The 3 grams of coke is BS, but the BJ isn't apparently LOL

It's in the PR at the smoking gun.

[Rohirrim]

Easy come easy go.

[Reggie Miller]

Drunk driving should only be illegal if you hit someone.

I was almost killed by a sober driver when I was young, and my mom went through the windshield. My dad was crippled for life. When you get hit, it doesn't matter if the driver is sober or drunk.

All these people getting busted for drunk driving is throwing our economy into recession. Most traffic deaths are caused by sober drivers.

Drunk driving: the only "crime" in history that has no motive, no victim, and no legally proven criminal intent. Even in the insane war on drugs, you must prove criminal intent.

Put drunk driving into the civil courts where it belongs.

Legalize Drunk Driving
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/drunkdriving.html

To make it even worse, most states make the second DUI in X number of years a felony. It is the only felony that does not require a showing of specific intent.

A felony more or less ends your life as a productive citizen. You can't vote, own a gun, hold most professional licenses, be bonded, etc.

There are a lot of laws that cover what happens if you actually do hit someone or cause an accident when intoxicated. The harsh penalties for drunk driving are comparable to imprisoning all gun owners because they MIGHT shoot someone someday. The deterrent argument is bull , because nothing deters a hardcore alcoholic.

[samikeyp]

Biernutz.....GREAT sig! I think that was the best shot NVE ever made in SA!

[Biggems]

his blood krispy kreme level was 0.40

[duncan228]

For Barkley, credibility is no laughing matter
By Adrian Wojnarowski

The back story of the bust turned out to be vintage Sir Charles: A late evening of drinking with Michael Strahan and Urkel and a nightcap of a willing woman waiting beyond the bar. Charles Barkley ran a stop sign in Scottsdale, failed a field sobriety test and couldn’t wait to offer his reasoning for such recklessness to the booking officer.

“I was gonna drive around the corner and get a … ”

The rest of Barkley’s boast is available with a simple ’net search, but understand: With his arrest on su ion of DUI this week, Barkley lost his head.

He turned one more embarrassing episode into weeks worth of material for Ernie Johnson and Kenny Smith on the TNT set. He turned the police report on his arrest into a Saturday Night Live skit. That’s Charles. No harm, no foul. He’s forever the class clown shooting spitballs at the teacher. People feel like they should tsk-tsk-tsk him, but he just cracks everyone up. He never did win a le, except this one: champion of the people.

He’s 45 years old now, and Charles Barkley talks about a big life beyond a Hall of Fame basketball career. He says he’s going to run for governor of Alabama in 2014. Barkley is an endless laugh track, but he barely knows who’s playing on the Raptors and Warriors, never mind the Democrats and Republicans.

Nevertheless, Campbell Brown had him on CNN in the election cycle discussing presidential politics and his possible gubernatorial bid. “I can’t screw up Alabama,” Barkley said. “We are number 48 in everything and Arkansas and Mississippi aren’t going anywhere.”

If Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jesse Ventura became governors, maybe Charles could’ve gotten elected in Alabama. He probably would’ve had a better shot than Turner Gill did at Auburn. Of course, Barkley is never running for governor. And he’s never going to be a GM in the NBA. He’s never taken anything that seriously – just like no one takes him seriously.

The gambling debts and the suspected DUI won’t keep Barkley out of the governor’s or the GM’s office. Nobody’s giving him those jobs. Here’s the thing, though: Barkley could be a player on the national stage, but these incidents are destroying his credibility.

For instance, there isn’t a sports figure willing to speak as loudly and forcefully on issues of race as Barkley. He was right railing on his alma mater Auburn’s hiring of Gene Chizik over Gill as football coach. When everyone else is too fearful to talk about race and sports, he’s unafraid. He fears no repercussions. He doesn’t lose endorsements and he doesn’t lose jobs. In that way, Barkley is strangely immune.

What he’s losing is the chance to be taken seriously, to have a legitimate platform beyond bugging on EJ and The Jet. More than anything, Barkley is costing himself the chance to be a serious commentator on issues. He’s lost tens of millions of dollars gambling. The stories of unpaid debts and binge betting became such an embarrassment for the NBA that commissioner David Stern had to talk to him about it.

Barkley could do a lot more than celebrity golf tournaments, commercials and two nights a week cracking wise on TNT. Yet, there’s a sad, self-destructive bent to him that suggests he’ll never graduate to bigger things. There’s no shame there. He’s got a good life, good gigs. He’s capable of a lot more and it seems like that gnaws at him.

Barkley is famously generous, with kindness and money. He’s given millions to ins utions such as his high school and college, and thousands and thousands more to waiters and ballboys and perfect strangers. When a young man busing tables at one of Barkley’s favorite Philadelphia restaurants had dropped out of Temple University and lost his dream to become a teacher because he was out of money, Barkley insisted on paying his tuition.

For every foolish thing that Barkley did as a player – accidentally spitting on a girl courtside, throwing a smart-mouth through a glass window – there have been endless accounts of random kindness. He’s got a big heart, a big spirit.

Of course, he’s got a big ego, too. He thinks he can be a GM. He thinks he can be a governor. Not like this, no.

Through the years, the story never changes with Charles; something he’s chasing makes him look like a fool. Maybe it’s a stack of chips late night in Vegas or a you-know-what late night in Scottsdale. Whatever it is, it’s forever held him back. Even Michael Jordan believed that Barkley was never committed enough to be a championship player.

The blood tests will tell the truth of Barkley’s sobriety the other night, but his refusal to take the breathalyzer suggests he didn’t like his odds of passing it. Too many people have lost their lives, lost loved ones to drinking and driving, for Barkley to get laughs out of that booking-room routine.

“The Scottsdale police were fantastic,” Barkley gushed in a brief public statement.

As it turned out, it was the Gilbert police that busted him. Whatever. Charles Barkley has never been too good with the details. Even so, they were a good audience for him. He told them how that lovely lady had recently given him some of the best you-know-what of his life, and that maybe a civilian police employee in the booking station could get her name tattooed on his butt for getting him out of trouble.

“I am disappointed that I put myself in that situation,” Barkley said.

Embarrassed? That’s harder to do. “He has a chance to do some good with this,” the police spokesman said. “I hope he does.”

There’s a lot more good for Charles Barkley to do, but none of it comes out of a DUI arrest. That’s for the young knuckleheads. Barkley is 45 and he still talks about such big plans, big ideas for himself. At this rate, it doesn’t look so good.

[timvp]

“I was gonna drive around the corner and get a … ”

The rest of Barkley’s boast is available with a simple ’net search, but understand: With his arrest on su ion of DUI this week, Barkley lost his head.

Well done.

[hater]

I am shocked that not many ppl commenting on this. I just wanna see Chuck's face the next time he is on TNT. that is gonna be classic. that mofo's first basketball comment on tv since that incident is already must see tv. they should have PPV for that moment

[Biernutz]

TNT has not said a word about Charles status. The next TNT game is Jan 15 so they have time for some damage control . Charles is the money maker on TNT and last year the signed him to a big contract. I think I might be stretching here but I expect Charles will be a big apologize segment then they will move on to make more money.

[Armando]

TNT has not said a word about Charles status. The next TNT game is Jan 15 so they have time for some damage control . Charles is the money maker on TNT and last year the signed him to a big contract. I think I might be stretching here but I expect Charles will be a big apologize segment then they will move on to make more money.

Watch they will have the big sitdown with either Ernie Johnson or John Thompson.

[Rockhound]

The other night Charles made a comment about Lebron after Lebron was saying Hi to all his friends during the Christmas games.

Something to the affect "They only like you because of your money Lebron". I guess the same could be said about Charles Barkley's wife for putting up with this...

Therefore, proof Sir Charles hasn't gambled it all away yet

[balli]

I am shocked that not many ppl commenting on this.

I've just been saddened by it. I have no tolerance for drunk drivers, especially rich ass ones who could've called a cab. But I generally like and I'm an apologist for the Chuckster and that's why I'm all the more pissed that he would do this.

[Rogue]

is barkley's new home.

[hater]

no more news on this pervert? its like everyone is ignoring this dammit!

[hater]

[hater]

[SmellyFeet]

Barkley is a legend.