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i dont know how one hits a fire hydrant thern a tree without being drunk or blind
1 Aaron down, 1 to go
Give him the benefit of the doubt
I was pulled over for the drunk test one night about 10 pm, after a very long day at work, and did not even know that I was driving so sloppy – just too beat to realize it. They gave me the drunk test in McDonald’s parking lot! That was 20 years ago, but the lesson was learned.
Anyway, it is entirely possible to be impaired just by being dog tired or upset. Tiger is one of the few athletes who has actually been a decent role model, so give him the benefit of the doubt until the details are known.
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is." -- Yogi Berra
You're lucky that didn't happen 20 years later
You probably would have been arrested and taken to the local police station and charged with reckless driving for driving “tired.” They also would have probably taken blood and tested for everything, just to waste your time. Gotta hit those MADD quotas to get your free vacations, afterall.
Reports are that...
He’s okay and out of the hospital with only facial lacerations.
Someday we'll go all the way...
We don't miss any doom and gloom topics
on this blog!
I would sleep with Blou if it meant the Cubs would win a WS. by Doggie Stalker on Aug 22, 2009 4:11 PM EDT
That's because this isn't Viva El Birdos
I'm singing, "GO CUBS GO! GO CUBS GO!" -- DrCrawdad on Jun 12, 2009 7:23 AM CDT
Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! -- Homer J. Simpson
by Shanghai Badger on Nov 27, 2009 4:38 PM CST up reply actions
Reports are...
Suffered facial cuts , was treated and released. Also the police saw no evidence of alcohol or drugs playing a role and Woods was not therefore tested for anything.
"Cubs will win 79 to 83 games." BLou (7/21/09)
"Serious condition" is incorrect
He has “serious” injuries, mostly facial lacerations like BLou said (god I can’t believe I’m reaffirming a BLou post, but it is the season of giving). He was treated and released.
I just can’t believe at 2:25am that you wreck like that w/out alcohol being involved… I wonder if maybe him and wonder wife got into a bit of a tiff and he had some rage to work out… Tiger does have a bit of a temper. I could totally see him blowing up and flooring his Escalade out of the driveway and 400hp+ causing a bit of a problem.
Hopefully he’s ok, although a Frankenstein-looking TWoods would be pretty bad ass for the 2010 PGA Tour season :-)
I just can’t believe at 2:25am that you wreck like that w/out alcohol being involved…
Ever occur to you it was Thanksgiving and he may have been at a family get together doing some catching up with friends and family he don’t get to see as often as he wants!
I would sleep with Blou if it meant the Cubs would win a WS. by Doggie Stalker on Aug 22, 2009 4:11 PM EDT
How does that refute the alcohol?
Or does that mean that family and friends are intoxicating?
I'm singing, "GO CUBS GO! GO CUBS GO!" -- DrCrawdad on Jun 12, 2009 7:23 AM CDT
Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! -- Homer J. Simpson
by Shanghai Badger on Nov 27, 2009 4:39 PM CST up reply actions
Why mention allegations
That weren’t mentioned by anyone of authority?
I would sleep with Blou if it meant the Cubs would win a WS. by Doggie Stalker on Aug 22, 2009 4:11 PM EDT
That's a fair response
I'm singing, "GO CUBS GO! GO CUBS GO!" -- DrCrawdad on Jun 12, 2009 7:23 AM CDT
Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! -- Homer J. Simpson
by Shanghai Badger on Nov 27, 2009 7:00 PM CST up reply actions
No...
But it did occur to me that the whole thing was a big lie, and his wife may have beat the crap out of him after learning of an alleged mistress and then beat the crap out of his car and took off and ran it into a tree.
So although Tiger wasn’t drunk, I’m sure his wife was drunk… on rage.
Looks like that's almost exactly what happened.
Woods was the driver, though, not his wife.
"You can observe a lot just by watching." ~ Yogi Berra
Yeah my bad
Early reports from TMZ when I posted that said it was his wife that took the Escalade, not Tiger.
Still an incredible story totally worthy of the afternoon soap operas… So I guess Tiger is human after all and kitty likes to scratch…….?
you're basing your belief on a TMZ article that begins almost every sentence with "We're told..."?
I understand why you’re accepting of articles without proof from writers like Bruce Miles. But TMZ?
Lou Brown: "My kinda team, Charlie, my kinda team..."
Hey, maybe TMZ is wrong.
But if no alcohol is involved… give me another reasonable explanation.
"You can observe a lot just by watching." ~ Yogi Berra
TMZ is sadly right more often than not
I hate that site/show but they’re unfortunately one of the more accurate news sources out there right now. Don’t forget, they were pretty much the only source for Michael Jackson’s death for the first few hours . . .
You are quite right.
I think this is because they are unencumbered with any politically correct agenda, and are therefore free to report the facts, rather than the watered-down version or preferable alternative the MSM always run with. Ditto for the National Enquirer (see: Rielle Hunter).
"Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things." ~Winston Churchill
Booze is a natural first response
Take a look at the stats of what causes accidents. Then check out how those stats go way up after the sun goes down.
I’d guess he had a tiff with the wife. He got that thing going pretty fast in a short amount of space. He’d barely cleared his driveway.
The original breaking news sounded worse
I’m glad that he was not critically injured. Even if the facial cuts are bad, it is good to hear that it was nothing life threatening.
Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense.
- The Mock Turtle, Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll -
by eths on Nov 28, 2009 5:14 AM CST via mobile reply actions
He's a lucky guy...
The wife of the world’s No.1 golfer Tiger Woods used one of his tools — a golf club — to smash open a window of his crashed SUV and then pulled him out of the damaged vehicle after an early-morning accident Friday outside their Isleworth mansion.
We now know Elin is not only stunningly gorgeous, but good in a crisis. Who wouldn’t want to be rescued by this?
"Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things." ~Winston Churchill
In light of new discoveries, I would make the following amendments:
We now know Elin is not only stunningly gorgeous, but goodin a crisiswith a club. Who wouldn’twant tobe rescued bycheat on this?
There, that’s better.
"Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things." ~Winston Churchill
I wish
I were that granny bikini!
I would sleep with Blou if it meant the Cubs would win a WS. by Doggie Stalker on Aug 22, 2009 4:11 PM EDT
Did I hear right that...
he lives in a 2 million dollar home? That’s surprising that he lives in a home that “only” costs that much.
Tiger also has a $40 million property oceanside in Florida
His house in the Orlando area is his primary residence though. Tiger also owns a 170 foot yacht. His first yacht was 102 feet and sold to a business entrepreneur I know for $1.5 million.
"Cubs will win 79 to 83 games." BLou (7/21/09)
Tiger appears to have been night putting
See reference to Chevy Chase in Caddyshack.
How Tiger could be diddling another woman when he has THAT at home is beyond any mortal man to understand.
"Cubs will win 79 to 83 games." BLou (7/21/09)
some things just dont make any sense...
1 Aaron down, 1 to go
by jesus christos on Nov 28, 2009 10:50 PM CST up reply actions
Well Hugh Grant wanted to pay for it
with Elizabeth Hurley at home and she is even better than Mrs. Tiger.
I don't care who he is....
… the longer he refuses to talk to the police the more it looks like he has something to hide here. I would imagine he’s concerned about his image, but this is the wrong way to go about handling this situation. Talk to the cops, issue a statement, get it over with.
"When they signed Fukudome, I knew they were trying to get me fired". - Ron Santo, January, 2008
Yeah, that's what I would have done.
But according to this, he doesn’t have to talk to them at all:
Florida Highway Patrol spokeswoman Sgt. Kim Montes said troopers were en route to Woods’ $2.4 million mansion in the gated community of Isleworth when agent Mark Steinberg called and was put through to the troopers, telling them Woods and his wife were unavailable.
Woods is not required by law to speak to the highway patrol because the incident is being investigated as a traffic accident, Montes said.
Still, I agree with you — a quick public statement would lay this to rest.
"You can observe a lot just by watching." ~ Yogi Berra
SURE LOOKS LIKE SOME
very bad advice from his agent . The media is not going to let this this incident go . Tiger is seen as a very high sports figure . Sounds like this was a domestic that got out of hand . To stone wall the police will not help his image . Tiger should have came clean the day it occured . The media will now second guess this for many years .
Fairly clear from Tiger's statement on Sunday that he has been unfaithful in his marriage
To wit, reference the phrase “this is all my fault.” I suspect that husband and wife were having a heated argument and that emotions were running high followed by Tiger hopping in the car and storming down the road. Hence the accident.
"Cubs will win 79 to 83 games." BLou (7/21/09)
The image of Elin chasing him down the driveway with a golf club
followed by his story that she rescued him from the vehicle using that golf club, is quite funny to me.
Here is what Tiger's statement should be:
Nothing. THAT is my answer.
IF you don’t like it, here is a golf club. Turn it sideways, and jam it in your ass.
I did not hit anyone with my vehicle. Police have told you there were no signs of alcohol. Elin is not alleging I abused her nor have police suggested I did.
I will happily and humbly reimburse the city for the damage to their fire hydrant and pay for any damage to my neighbor’s yard.
Other than that, you’ve got nothing. Actually, you ARE nothing, which is why you have to live your life vicariously through me.
Kill yourself if you don’t like it.
There is no such thing as an ugly female breast
Well, he could say something LIKE that...
… but maybe in a bit nicer way. “Jam it in your ass” isn’t the kind of thing that will do any good for the PR image of a famous athlete.
"You can observe a lot just by watching." ~ Yogi Berra
Obviously, I added the Worf touch
But what galls me is all this nonsense about how a regular guy wouldn’t be able to avoid talking to police this long.
The truth is, police wouldn’t give a damn about a regular guy. As soon as the blood-alcohol content level came back zero point zero, they would shrug their shoulders, present the guy with a bill for the fire hydrant and move on.
Tiger is human. God save us all. Don’t buy a Buick if you don’t like it.
There is no such thing as an ugly female breast
by Worf on Nov 30, 2009 2:42 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
+1
I agree 100%. I saw this yesterday, and I don’t understand the feeling that “we” are entitled to an explanation. This incident just barely spilled beyond the bounds of their property, but everyone needs to know what happened. Not really.
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is." -- Yogi Berra
Were you watching Lupica?
Someone needs to dropkick that little man into the Atlantic Ocean.
There is no such thing as an ugly female breast
This is the kind of stuff that starts mass media salivating....
… over nothing. Really, it’s nothing. Nobody’s business but theirs.
"You can observe a lot just by watching." ~ Yogi Berra
just read he pulled himself out of his own tournament
"When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not." --Mark Twain
The accident happened on private property, hence the police can't do a damned thing
Tiger lives in a private gated community with it’s own security patrol. Hence the police don’t have a pot to piss in.
It is fairly evident that the Mr. and Mrs. Woods had a heated argument, thereby prompting Mrs. Woods to attempt shoving a sand wedge up Mr. Woods’ keester, followed by him running for his life out the door while fumbling for his keys and hoping in the Escalade. Rearview mirror image of a crazed Mrs. Woods running a 4.3 with golf club in hand caused Mr. Woods to run into a fire hydrant, followed by a tree. Mrs. Woods then used the wedge to smash through the side door window and drag a barely conscious Mr. Wood out to the ground by his neck. That’s when sanity prevailed and somebody called for emergency assistant.
I don’t think I’m terribly wrong in any of this. Mr. Woods got caught diddling another woman and Mrs. Woods took objection.
"Cubs will win 79 to 83 games." BLou (7/21/09)
This probably isn't horribly far off
The question would be whether Elin said, “Oh God, what have I done?” or “Crap, now I have to save this asshole!”
There is no such thing as an ugly female breast
The longer it drags on, the worse it gets
I agree that Tiger has no legal obligation to talk to anyone. But, he isn’t just anyone. He has an entire brand to protect. All he had to do was have one short interview with a friendly media person. Keep it short, put out a good story, then walk away. He is allowing the loony media to control this story line. I get the impression that Tiger himself is making the decisions, and ignoring the advise of his consultants. He should have taken a page from David Letterman, just rip the scab off, and be done with it.
by Nibbles on Nov 30, 2009 9:27 PM CST reply actions 1 recs
Protect the brand
By preserving a sense of mystery instead of becoming a reality-show attention whore.
Letterman has to go out and face the audience almost daily. Tiger can afford to outlast the short-attention-span crowd. The cream-puff interview that you describe would not stop the requests for more interviews.
I would have a different opinion on this if it looked like someone was getting away with murder because they were big and powerful. If there was a sign that Tiger was beating his wife, a public outcry would be appropriate, because he is the powerful person in this relationship. Since there is some sign that she may be beating him, there is no doubt in my mind that he is capable of getting out if he wants.
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is." -- Yogi Berra
My 3 cents
I belive he is covering something up most likely protecting the wife.
As far as the Rachel Uchitel angle. I bet she was telling her friends and family she and Tiger were having an affair so they would pass the lie detector tests when they claimed she did.
She already has been proven to be a liar by claiming an affair with David Boreanaz using a friendly picture taken at an event. If a friendly picture taking at an event meant you were having an affair, it would mean I have had affairs with most of the Cubs and Bears players since the mid 80s!
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