Tiger Woods in Car Accident

And your reason for quoting it was..........??????

I could go on, but you get my drift.

THE Tiger Woods car crash saga has taken another twist, with police poised to demand hospital records to determine at what point the golfer sustained his injuries.

The Florida Highway Patrol is considering applying for a search warrant for Woods' hospital records to help them determine whether he suffered his injuries before, during or after the crash, TMZ reported.

Woods was treated in hospital for cuts to his lips after the crash and has so far refused to talk to police about the incident.

While he would make a great example in promoting understanding of this problem as experienced by men, he is under no obligation to disclose any of his private life publicly.

I'm a huge Tiger fan. If it's Tiger vs. Phil, I root for Tiger, unless Phil is looking like he really needs a boost.

But you can't have it both ways in life. You can't be a celebrity who rakes in tens of millions of dollars by endorsing products and popping up on our TV screen every day, and at the same time demand privacy when you wreck a car in a weird and conspicuous manner and then refuse to meet with the authorities who want to question you about an accident.

Purely as a PR strategy this has been disastrous. This is a story that's on the verge of launching its own cable-TV industry. Dude, you gotta staunch the bleeding!
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News reports have mentioned the big, obvious reason why Woods would want to erase the image of his wife in a jealous rage wielding a golf club. His endorsement deals, reportedly worth billions, depend on his reputation as a "boring" guy, as he likes to call himself, a family man with a wife and two kids and no bouncy, boozy mistress or other tabloid bait in his life. But there is another less obvious reason for Woods to lie (if that's what he's doing): Because of Florida's domestic-violence laws, admitting to the police that Nordegren in any way harmed him would virtually guarantee that the glamorous Elin would be led out of their mansion in handcuffs, even if he protested it.

In 1991, Florida became one of many states to set up a pro-arrest policy in domestic-violence cases. For years, feminist advocates had complained that police treated domestic-violence cases as private, family matters and assumed the abused spouse would never follow through and press charges. Beginning in the 1990s, laws began virtually to force the police to take action. The new statutes direct police to figure out who was the "primary aggressor" in a domestic dispute. They make a call based on a checklist (bruises, disparity of physical size), and then they make an arrest. Howls of protest from the abused spouse are to be ignored: "The decision to arrest and charge shall not require the consent of the victim or consideration of the relationship of the parties," the Florida law reads.
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Florida state troopers are trying to get Woods' medical records to investigate whether his injuries are consistent with a car accident or with getting bashed with a golf club. If they find the latter, then Nordegren could well be in trouble. The golf club would be considered a weapon, and Nordegren would be charged with felony-aggravated battery, says Tatum. Because of Florida's domestic-violence statutes, the police would have no choice but to arrest Nordegren, if they have "probable cause" to suspect her, whether Woods pressed charges or not. She would also not be eligible for bond but, rather, would have to stay in jail until her first appearance. She would then join the pantheon of celebrity mug shots, alongside Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton. And the much smaller pantheon of celebrity female abusers: Tawny Kitaen, the chick from the White Snake videos charged in 2002 with committing domestic violence against her then-husband major league baseball player Chuck Finley; Tonya Harding, the ice skater who allegedly threw a hubcap at her former boyfriend; Kim, the demented true love of Eminem; and the wife of Phil Hartman, who shot him in bed. Plus, of course, Lorena Bobbitt.

As you have guessed, the Woods story is about exactly what you think it is about: a huge celebrity, one of the most famous athletes in the world, suffers a mysterious mishap, gives an unsatisfying explanation, and rumors of personal scandal have filled in the void. A big star seems to be trying to hide something that won't stay hidden, and people want to have at it. That's it, and it's that simple.

But whenever a story like this breaks, the first thing that gets exposed is the gap between media outlets, like TMZ, that unashamedly love this kind of story and cover it well, and more-traditional media outlets, who are either uncomfortable with or unsuited to the story, yet finally can't ignore it.

These outlets aren't blind, either to the news or to the interest in it. They are as capable as you of seeing, for instance, that the most searched term at the New York Times website is, as of this morning, Tiger Woods.



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Who gives a s...t?

So what if it IS spousal abuse. So bloody what? that's their business and police business. What's it to you and me?

Mame is right !

I agree with Georgeob.

I am a big boy, don't bother to piss in my ear and tell me that it is raining,,,,I ain't going for it.