Police to charge Tiger Woods with careless driving (2)
ORLANDO, Fla. — The Florida Highway Patrol says it will issue Tiger Woods a careless driving citation for a car crash outside the star golfer’s Orlando-area mansion last week.
Maj. Cindy Williams said Tuesday that will close the investigation and no criminal charges are being pursued. Woods faces a $164 fine.
According to a patrol accident report, Woods crashed his SUV into a fire hydrant and a tree at 2:25 a.m. Friday. The airbags did not deploy and Woods’ wife told Windermere police she used a golf club to smash the back windows to help him out.
Woods withdrew Monday from his own golf tournament, citing injuries from the crash.
The crash came two days after The National Enquirer published a story alleging that Woods had been seeing a New York nightclub hostess. The woman denies having an affair with Woods.
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Notes:
Exactly as I anticipated.
“Nothing to see here, folks…please move along.”
More Notes:
Woods will pay the fine and remain silent as he should. End of story.
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Mac Says:
Let’s hope it is the end of the story. Woods has been a stellar spokesman for golf and sports in general.
Posted on December 2nd, 2009 at 12:34 am
Jean Says:
Yeah, Climategate versus Tigergate: Wow nice to see what is considered an important story and how much coverage each is getting !
Domestic violence ? Not a serious case if at all except if she had taken his head off and if it was a regular occurrence and a pattern of abuse rather than losing it one time ! Not to excuse the real cases of domestic violence or trivialize it.
Oh, no proof that there was domestic violence involved although the MSM is hinting at it ” wink wink nudge nudge ” LOL !
Posted on December 2nd, 2009 at 7:42 am
Cynapse Says:
One is a celebrity scandal and the other an opportunity for a partisan one-up. More people care about the game of golf than the game of politics.
Posted on December 2nd, 2009 at 8:04 am
Jean Says:
Yup but then how about trillions of dollars diverted fixing a possibly non-existing problem, on the scale of things one is a flea and the other a very fat elephants.
A badly served ( informed ) public by the MSM can have all sorts of skewed priorities: A non engaged, distracted, uninformed and misinformed population that only votes at a rate below 50% is not encouraging as far as maintaining a true democracy or personal freedoms ! Nothing new here as in Roman times bread and circuses was also a way to manipulate the ” mob ” and demagogy of left and right was alive and well during the two Triumvirates preceding the fall of the Roman republic into Empire at the time of Caesar and Augustus …. well ancient history repeats as our urban life style is very similar to that of the Romans but with more technology. ( Human nature hasn’t changed a bit ).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Triumvirate
Some more Roman politics leading to the fall of the Republic into dictatorship:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaius_Marius
O.K. going off on a tangent but the point being that public opinion can be very very wrong if it is fed misinformation ( AGW ) or simply distracted with light gossipy news !
Posted on December 2nd, 2009 at 8:45 am
Mac Says:
For every person who is pushing Climategate for partisan reasons, there are a dozen who were pushing the “Sound of Settled Science” for partisan reasons.
Posted on December 2nd, 2009 at 8:51 am
ward Says:
Just what is partisan about exposing lies and liars, with evidence produced by their own hand?
Posted on December 2nd, 2009 at 9:18 am
Jean Says:
Science i.e. Real Science is a search for the truth or the current best explanation of the truth partisanship should have no role in theory ! 2 +2 = 4 and no matter how much I feel it should be 4 1/2 or 5 to make me feel good the answer is still 4.
Scientists that cheat or lie or change the numbers to fit a theory are no longer scientists and their conclusions are no longer to be taken as fact without truly independent verification.
Oh, to get back to Topic: There seems to be a voice mail by Tiger making the infidelity suspicions more credible ! But bottom line I don’t really care for much more than a few seconds of ” too bad, so sad ” , feel sorry for his self-inflicted troubles but don’t really care much LOL !
Posted on December 2nd, 2009 at 9:20 am
Cy Says:
Just what is partisan about exposing lies and liars, with evidence produced by their own hand?
Because you had no idea whether they were lying before this scandal erupted. You just wanted to oppose the “lefties” and their “tax grab”. It just so happens they were fibbing this time so you can attempt to pass it off as a general moral victory. But there’s no way you and your comrades would be following Al Gore in lockstep had the science proven to be true. Try and say otherwise.
Posted on December 2nd, 2009 at 9:29 am
Undecided Voter Says:
Come on, this should not be a serious news item with what is going on in the world.
Whats next, discussing the latest showing of ‘desperate housewives.’
Posted on December 2nd, 2009 at 10:11 am
Jean Says:
Opposing lies is never partizan if one is actually right that they are lies.
Oh, before the ” scandal ” I was merely sceptical about the validity of AGW or even climate change and mostly if it was man made climate change: Now I’m still not sure about the science but I am sure that the process has been tainted and trillions of dollars shouldn’t be spent without verification, assuming the climate science is even advanced enough to tell us with any certainty was the climate will be in a decade or even a century in the future …. oh, and if we can even do anything about it ? Jury out on AGW but it isn’t looking good LOL.
Posted on December 2nd, 2009 at 10:13 am
MaryT Says:
I have a question re Tiger and all other famous men who have been suspected or found guilty of affairs.
Why are they so sure that these women aren’t just sleeping with them in the hope of going public in the future, to make megatons of money. Why do so many of them assume that it is their decision to play around, instead of being stalked by wannabefamous girls/women.
Or, how many of those women are out to get pregnant and sue for support, and again get at that bank account.
How long before his wife is sporting the biggest diamond on her finger, and how long before she decides if it is better for her to get a divorce or stay.
Trophy wives are what they are and they are replaceable.
Posted on December 2nd, 2009 at 7:52 pm