There’s a time and a place for flouting your celebrity status and unfortunately it’s not when you get your second DUI. Christopher McDonald, the man that made Shooter McGavin such a popular heel in Happy Gilmore, attempted to tell the arresting officers that he was in the famous Sandler movie in an attempt to throw his weight around it would seem, but all that happened was what anyone might expect. He was tossed into the drunk tank for as long as it took for him to get sobered up and then released without bail. That’s two thus far, right?
Most guys would probably be in the joint still at that point, especially if they’d been caught on a SECOND DUI. McDonald was arrested in North Carolina on the same charge in 2013, and likely faced the same type of treatment. But thanks to celebrity status it seems that anyone that’s starred in a movie or on a TV series needs to be complicit in a string of homicides, a drug or kiddie ring, or something equally heinous to be considered for anything other than a slap on the wrist, a few fines that they can easily pay off, and a night spent in the drunk tank.
Now don’t get me wrong, being tossed in the drunk tank, if that IS where McDonald was put, is no picnic. If such holding cells get packed and filled to the gills with drunkards and those that are one step away from vomiting wherever they happen to open their mouth then it can become a regular nightmare. But it’s definitely one step up from actual jail time, which is where the average person would be headed after two DUI’s. I wonder if his agent managed to cite extenuating circumstances or something equally as tedious in order to get him off, or if the San Bernadino police just didn’t want to deal with him any longer.
The real issue is the fact that he hasn’t spent a day in jail, and the fact that celebrities rarely ever get tossed in for the things they supposedly do. Being famous seems to be a continual ‘get out of jail free’ card so long as you don’t do something so messed up that the law can’t be bent to the breaking point. Many might claim that this isn’t true but there are simply too many celebrities that seem to flout the law and get away with it rather than be bound by as the rest of the country is. Some celebs have even gotten away with murder and only done a minimum amount of time, which means that something in this country’s legal system is very, very wrong.
Celeb status shouldn’t mean that you can flash your name, your attitude, and get off without anything but a fine or a warning. The mere fact that any celebrity can get away with something like this is proof that they have way too much power in this society.
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