Smugshot of Al Gore III
Aren’t. Or…a really bad case of Smug catches up with the Gores.
For those of you who haven’t heard, here’s what happens to your kids when you emphasize the completely ridiculous, like Global Warming–you tend to miss the real issues facing people today, like drug abuse and personally self-destructive behavior. But then again, when you’re as self-satisfied as the Gores, Smug will creep up on you.
Al Gore’s son busted for drugs in hybrid car
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The 24-year-old son of former Vice President Al Gore was arrested for drug possession on Wednesday after he was stopped for speeding in his hybrid Toyota Prius, a sheriff’s official said. Al Gore III — whose father is a leading advocate of policies to fight global warming — was driving his environmentally friendly car at about 100 miles per hour on a freeway south of Los Angeles when he was pulled over by an Orange County sheriff’s deputy at about 2:15 a.m.
The deputy smelled marijuana and searched the car, said sheriff’s spokesman Jim Amormino. The search turned up a small amount of marijuana, along with prescription drugs including Valium, Xanax, Vicodin, Adderall and Soma. There were no prescriptions found, he said.
Here’s just a little background on what can happen when Smug becomes an issue.
100 miles an hour and stoned. Yeah, I’d say Al Gore III posed just a bit more of a danger to society that night than “Climate Change.” An immediate, deadly danger. What are the chances of Algore ending his shadow boxing with his fantastical Climate Super Enemy, to focus instead on real issues, like recklessness, selfishness, suicidal tendencies and the drug addiction that plague humanity?
Nah…After all, if you’re going to be killed by a smug, drunk/stoned reckless driver traveling at 100 miles an hour, wouldn’t you rather it be by a more socially-conscious car and driver? Sure you would!
Well we at least learned that hybred cars can get well into triple digit MPH at 2 in the morning. I do not think the dope helped; I think hybreds can almost out run the CHP.
Amazing how the Hollywood folk who mouth off about how we should run our lives are unable to run thir own lives. As an old American folk song said 60 years ago, “If you mind your own business; you’ll be busy all the time”!
Al solve your family problems before telling us how to run our lives!
A fine example of the rising expectations from generation to generation of the American dream–Al Gore, Jr. thinks he’s entitled to be President; Al Gore, III thinks he’s entitled to speed while stoned.
Well, well, well, Paris Hilton’s first counseling client? Drinking and driving is clearly not the same as drugging and driving but I will watch to see what sentence he gets in comparison to what she got. But as this is a THIRD arrest he might just get off even lighter than she did. We must keep up the Jr-Paris watch. It must be difficult to be the average citizen in California, to say nothing of dangerous to just be driving on the same roads these celebs do. Wait a minute, I’m in Washington, DC; what am I thinking?
Not to go off topic, but at least the Junior partner in “Gore-Lieberman 2000″hasn’t lost his mind. It gives one hope that there are still some sane liberals in the Dem party. But the base has rejected sane Joe and embraced “Out There Al.”
What is a voter to do?
Cut the poor kid some slack. I understand he was being chased by Manbearpig.
Don’t worry all, AGIII will be in a cushy six figure job at daddy’s carbon offset firm with his own gulfstream 4 that he will HAVE to use on occasion. The 50 trees he will plant to offset the co2 he belches into father sky will only need 60-70 years to take effect. Sleep tight Gore family.
“100 miles an hour and stoned.”
In all fairness, none of what I’ve read actually says he was under the influence at the time. He was arrested for possession of a number of controlled substances but not for DUI. Again, I could be wrong, but this is my understanding. As someone who’s prosecuted DUI’s, there’s nothing in any of the stories that sounds like a DUI investigation: no mention of field sobriety exercises and/or a breath or urine test.
“Drinking and driving is clearly not the same as drugging and driving…”
It’s the same statute here in Florida; I expect it is in California as well, and it’s just as potentially dangerous or in some cases more so, especially if you’re mixing multiple drugs.
This is classic. Al Gore’s son arrested for driving a “high”brid car that apparently uses marijuana for fuel while setting up Live Earth concerts to stop global warming.
Wait? Weren’t Cheech and Chong doing this back in the 70’s?
It’s true that reports have not said AGIII was under the influence of anything, but it does state that a cop smelled pot which prompted him to search the car. Unless AGIII lit up or had marijuana opened up in the car, the chances a cop would have caught the scent is unlikely. Nothing was mentioned of whether the guy downed the many prescriptions named either.
I recall some years back when Jeb Bush’s daughter had a substance abuse problem and it wasn’t something to be joked about then and neither is the condition or activities of AGIII now. He’s not the one preaching on the public stage, so I look at the situation as ‘hands off’ when it comes to a public figure’s family members. Certainly, there is room for reporting what happened, but anything more is unnecessary unless it were Al Gore Jr. After all, it is Jr. that needs to be held accountable on his claims – his son has not made public statements concerning global warming or any issue that I am aware of.
When or if AGIII ever does take a public position on something then yes, we can ask him how driving 100mph w/ pot and an assortment of prescription drugs helped the environment. In the mean time, I hope the guy gets serious help and suffers the consequences now before he alters his life or that of another later.
Perhaps AGJr. is cringing quite a bit now about that little 11th hour revelation of W’s 30-year-old DUI during the 2000 election. Boy, karma can be cruel.
Artgal, 90+% of the possession of cannabis charges I’ve filed come from traffic stops. Lighting up in your car is an easy way to get a drug charge–and the arrest affidavits all start with approximately “defendant rolled down the window, and what based upon my training and experience I immediately recognized as the odor of burnt cannabis emanated from within”–but the overwhelming majority of those cases are neither investigated as nor charged as DUI. That’s because here in Florida, and I imagine something similar is the case in California, to prove DUI you have to prove more than the defendant was under the influence: you have to prove that he or she was under the influence “to the extent their normal faculties were impaired,” i.e., it’s not necessarily criminal to drive after having had one beer or one joint. It’s highly fact-sensitive, of course: fun with the jury.
I know I’m coming into this late, but I have some questions about Al Gore III’s high speed joyride in a Prius.
1) How steep was the hill he was driving down at the time?
2) How much of a tailwind was there?
3) How big was the rubber band used to propel the Prius that fast down the hill?
From Accuweather.com:
Gore’s Army may be Lacking in Scientific Background
Al Gore knew he could not get his message out about the dangers of global warming without some help, so he decided to recruit 1000 volunteers to help spread the word. This idea became the “The Climate Project”. According to the project director, Jenny Clad, applicants were chosen on their ability to commit to doing 10 presentations and reaching unique groups of people. But, there were no questions in the application about the applicants background with meteorology, climatology or any kind of science. Once the applicants were selected, there was a training session held in Nashville, Tennessee.
Amazing!!!
How About Rooting For Earth for a Change You Conservative Scumbags! My son has a right to privacy! Yea who live under incandescent light should not throw eco-friendly stones!
Will Al Gore III appear at the Big Eco Rock ‘n’
Roll show, on stage with Cheap Trick’s updated rendition of their classic The Green Police?
I had this image in my head of the empty stadiums and arenas after the concerts were over, filled with paper debris and empty bottles…while Al Gore sat upon a horse in the foreground with a single tear running down his face…you know, just like the crying Indian…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlyRRDi1eAw