BADNESS
03-01-2011, 05:02 PM
We open today's missive with a rhetorical question: Why is it that celebrities can't just stay at home and get drunk like the rest of us?
But no, they go out, live it up, and get arrested and end up in this column.
Singer Christina Aguilera was arrested for public intoxication.
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Singer Christina Aguilera is the latest. She was arrested in the wee hours Tuesday morning on suspicion of public drunkenness and held in a West Hollywood sheriff's station until she could sober up.
Her boyfriend, one Matthew Rutler, burned rubber and fishtailed on a street near the Sunset Strip just before cops pulled him over. Aguilera was in the passenger seat.
They arrested Rutler on suspicion of DUI after he failed a sobriety test. He was later released on $5,000 bail.
Sheriffs took Aguilera in, they said, because she was too blotto for her own good. She will not be prosecuted.
"She didn't really understand where she was," Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said. "She said she didn't drive so she didn't even know where she lived."
Moral: If you stay at home, it
But no, they go out, live it up, and get arrested and end up in this column.
Singer Christina Aguilera was arrested for public intoxication.
JAMIE SQUIRE, GETTY IMAGES
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Christina Aguilera spends the night in jail
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Singer Christina Aguilera is the latest. She was arrested in the wee hours Tuesday morning on suspicion of public drunkenness and held in a West Hollywood sheriff's station until she could sober up.
Her boyfriend, one Matthew Rutler, burned rubber and fishtailed on a street near the Sunset Strip just before cops pulled him over. Aguilera was in the passenger seat.
They arrested Rutler on suspicion of DUI after he failed a sobriety test. He was later released on $5,000 bail.
Sheriffs took Aguilera in, they said, because she was too blotto for her own good. She will not be prosecuted.
"She didn't really understand where she was," Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said. "She said she didn't drive so she didn't even know where she lived."
Moral: If you stay at home, it