Drunk Guy Hops on Lawn Mower gets DUI

(AP) ATHENS, Tenn. (AP) - An East Tennessee man driving a lawn mower in the road has been charged with DUI. Athens police said 30-year-old Jimmy Graham Jr. smelled like alcohol and failed a sobriety test Monday after an officer spotted him on the lawn mower. He told the officer he had consumed a beer and taken a stress reliever prescribed to him. A jailer said Graham was in custody Tuesday and there was no record of him having a lawyer.

The Daily Post-Athenian in Athens reported that Graham was also charged with aggravated burglary and theft under $500. A police report shows Graham told the officer he had stopped by a house to pick up some fishing poles. Police said the man who lives at the house where Graham had stopped on the mower told police the fishing poles were stolen from his garage.

Hahaha. I can't help, but laugh. So a guy gets drunk, hops on a lawn mower and decides to steal some fishing poles and it results in a $500 fine, aggravate burglary, and a DUI? Wow, hey buddy was it worth it? I mean we've all done stupid things when we were drunk. We've all thought of doing something like this when we've been blacked out hammered, but to actually act on it? If you ask me this is one guy I'd love to drink with and come up with something crazy to do because he'd almost certainly act on it, unlike me and my friends.

Erykah Badu Desperately Seeking Attention, Wanted to Get Arrested for Video

Provocative R&B star Erykah Badu wanted to make her "Window Seat" video even more controversial -- by getting arrested during the shoot. The singer/songwriter rips off her clothes in front of complete strangers in the promo, which was filmed in public at Dealey Plaza, the tourist hotspot in Dallas where President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963.

But she was hoping for some even more headline-grabbing scenes -- she deliberately attempted to get seized by police officers for filming without a permit. The promo's producers, duo Coodie and Chike, even had bail money on hand to free Badu from the cells when the shoot was over -- but the plan fell flat when local cops failed to notice the film crew.

Here we have another fading star desperately seeking attention by any means necessary. Stripping naked in public and pretending to be shot in the place where JFK was assassinated will certainly get you some attention. As will getting thrown in jail for such a display, which is apparently why Erykah Badu was willing to accept the consequences. It’s sad that her career has gone so far down the tubes that she has to resort to this kind of thing.

It blows my mind that some people can defend this disgusting display as art. If any normal citizen did what she did they would be prosecuted as a sex offender and labeled both un-American and a freak. Badu is mocking one of the most beloved presidents in American history in the place where he was tragically shot and killed. It’s not art. It’s sick.