I sorta don't get this

[Jenny_Jackson]

http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=297980&GT1=7702
© APA security guard and a photographer stand outside the ambulance entrance at the UCLA Medical Center emergency room.Spears Taken From Home in Ambulance
Jan. 31, 2008, 10:01 AM EST
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Britney Spears was taken from her home by ambulance early Thursday and escorted to the hospital by more than a dozen police officers in cars, on motorcycles and in helicopters.

A Los Angeles police officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the matter, said the 26-year-old pop star was being taken to the hospital to "get help." The Los Angeles Times cited unidentified authorities who said Spears was being placed on a "mental evaluation hold."

Video: Spears rushed to hospital again

Spears was taken to UCLA Medical Center, where her mother, Lynne, was seen leaving its psychiatric hospital at about 5:30 a.m.

When asked by a throng of paparazzi and reporters whether Britney was doing all right, Lynne Spears replied, "Yeah," before leaving in a Range Rover.

Hours earlier, shortly after 1 a.m., the motorcade that pulled away from Spears' residence was nearly the length of a football field. Along with the ambulance, it included police on nearly a dozen motorcycles and in two cruisers. Two police helicopters followed overhead.

The scene was more controlled than the one earlier this month when Spears also was taken away from her home in an ambulance.

On Jan. 3, police were called to her home when she refused to return her two young sons, Sean Preston, 2, and Jayden James, 1, to ex-husband Kevin Federline, who has custody.

Officers had paramedics haul Spears to a hospital for undisclosed reasons. She was released after a day and a half in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

Police also went to Spears' hilltop residence off Mulholland Drive on Monday night after someone reported a swarm of paparazzi trespassing in the singer's gated community. When officers arrived, they didn't see anyone trespassing, police said, but citations were issued for several illegally parked cars.

Spears has been in a highly public downward spiral since filing for divorce from Federline in November 2006.

Her bizarre antics include shaving her head bald, attacking a car with an umbrella and bringing along a paparazzo pal on trips to a courthouse in her child custody case.

Spears' child custody case has become a public spectacle, with her skipping depositions and twice this month arriving at the courthouse but not attending the hearing.

The most recent incident was last week, when Spears showed up at the downtown civil courts building for a chance to persuade a Superior Court commissioner to change his order and allow her to see her sons.

Dressed as if arriving for a cocktail party — wearing bright pink lipstick, sunglasses, shiny gold platform shoes and a very short black dress with a ruffled hem — Spears was driven into an underground garage and then entered the courthouse.

A court spokesman said she got through a security metal detector, then announced, "I want to leave," and returned to her car.


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It's not that I don't think she belongs in the nuthouse. What I don't get is the motorcade with helicopter escort. Ok, she's a drugged out, nut case - granted. But why did they make a sensational specticle out of this?

Frankly, what comes to mind is a parody of the old Ernest Tubb song -

She's in the nuthouse now.
She's in the nuthouse now.
I told her once or twice,
Stop playing cards and shooting dope.
She's in the nuthouse now.

 

[DesertPirate]

This whole cult of celebrity watching is just a type of voyeurism
Not a good type

If there is a 99.9% chance that it won't affect me, why should I care?

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

This whole cult of celebrity watching is just a type of voyeurism
Not a good type

If there is a 99.9% chance that it won't affect me, why should I care?

I a way it does affect you and everyone, DP. Two helicopters at $300/hour each for two hours. A measureable percentage of LA's finest tied up while gangs and crime runs wildly amook. I think that affects everyone.

 

[DesertPirate]

I a way it does affect you and everyone, DP. Two helicopters at $300/hour each for two hours. A measureable percentage of LA's finest tied up while gangs and crime runs wildly amook. I think that affects everyone.

Only if you live there. I don't.

That's why my father in law and 3 of his sons (who do live in CA) call California the Cereal State (nothing but fruits nuts and flakes).

 

[3113]

Only if you live there. I don't.

That's why my father in law and 3 of his sons (who do live in CA) call California the Cereal State (nothing but fruits nuts and flakes).

Yawn. I really have to chide your Father for his lack of creativity. That's a thirty-year old expression far past it's exparation date. Is that the best the folk in your state can do? No wonder everyone wants to move to CA. Everyplace else is stale and relying on chemicals to preserve it.

And frankly, you'd better hope that we're not all nuts, and flakes and fruit...because we're the ones putting out the television shows and movies and games that your kids watch and rely on to tell them what to wear, how to live and what to think.

But then, I know that the real reason your dad and other say such things is because our Governer is a Cyborg from the future.

http://www.dvd-science-fiction.com/upload/terminator.jpg

You're just jealous.

I hope Britney buys a house in your town, not far from where you are. And decides to live there. Forever.

 

[TxRad]

JJ, some folks just have to have their fifteen minutes of fame once a month.

3113, I lived out there once for too damned long, my condolences.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

I hope Britney buys a house in your town, not far from where you are. And decides to live there. Forever.

Interesting you should bring that up, 3. I saw George Clooney on, was is Leno? saying he is her neighbor and was selling his house to escape her antics and the police commotion.

 

[TxRad]

Interesting you should bring that up, 3. I saw George Clooney on, was is Leno? saying he is her neighbor and was selling his house to escape her antics and the police commotion.

I'd love to see her move down in my neck of the woods. If she thought jail was weird then this place would blow her mind. These rednecks would just laugh and point.

 

[elfin_odalisque]

Surely, it's about the cops being weird. With Paris H, Loopy Lohan and now, most tragically, Britney, LA's finest (and the lawyers, probation officers and correctional facility officials) seem more concerned to get their Andy Warhol 15 minutes than to do their job.

I've never been a fan of her music or her style, but I really feel sorry for her now. In desperate trouble, she gets no help from her family or her ex, gets beaten on by avaricious lowlife - and the supposed authorities just want to feed the pirhana media.

The girl is very sick, needs help and a lot of caring for - out of the spotlight.

 

[Weird Harold]

JJ, some folks just have to have their fifteen minutes of fame once a month.

I think the excessive escort was a result of the recent arrest of a couple of paparazi for reckless driving -- and that was just over a normal night out. The Feeding Frenzy amond the paparazi over an ambulance ride would create a public safety hazard on the streets between her house and the hospital.

I really don't understand paparazi and the "need" to invade celebrities privacy to the point of endangering the celebrities and/or general public, but I can understand an excessive response to a request to ward off paparazi.

3113, I lived out there once for too damned long, my condolences.

Being stationed in Southern California at George AFB in '81 thru '83 was one of the worst decades of my life.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

I a way it does affect you and everyone, DP. Two helicopters at $300/hour each for two hours. A measureable percentage of LA's finest tied up while gangs and crime runs wildly amook. I think that affects everyone.

They should send her a bill.

 

[Huckleman2000]

[snip] In desperate trouble, she gets no help from her family or her ex, gets beaten on by avaricious lowlife - and the supposed authorities just want to feed the pirhana media.

The girl is very sick, needs help and a lot of caring for - out of the spotlight.

Actually, some of her friends and her family have been trying repeatedly to intervene, and she has rebuffed them or ignored them. Hopefully, they have started to get through to her.

I've been unable to keep this story from seeping into my news viewing.

Plus, as a depressive myself, I find it hard to turn away from such a public spectacle of uncontrolled mental illness. I keep hoping that the gawking will in time lead to better public understanding.

 

[cloudy]

The entire situation is very sad, but.... I laughed my ass off when I heard that she'd "decided" she was British, and had begun speaking with a "British accent."

 

[Boxlicker101]

I think the excessive escort was a result of the recent arrest of a couple of paparazi for reckless driving -- and that was just over a normal night out. The Feeding Frenzy amond the paparazi over an ambulance ride would create a public safety hazard on the streets between her house and the hospital.

I really don't understand paparazi and the "need" to invade celebrities privacy to the point of endangering the celebrities and/or general public, but I can understand an excessive response to a request to ward off paparazi.



Being stationed in Southern California at George AFB in '81 thru '83 was one of the worst decades of my life.

The swarming flies have a very simple motivation. Money. A good shot of somebody like Britney, or LiLo or Clooney or some others can be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. They may claim to be journalists, and some of them might be, but they are really just parasites. Of course, those who buy and read crap like National Enquirer or the other rags are the ones to blame. Occasionally, I will look at the cover of one in a supermarket, but I would NEVER buy one.

 

[DesertPirate]

Yawn. I really have to chide your Father for his lack of creativity. That's a thirty-year old expression far past it's exparation date. Is that the best the folk in your state can do? No wonder everyone wants to move to CA. Everyplace else is stale and relying on chemicals to preserve it.

And frankly, you'd better hope that we're not all nuts, and flakes and fruit...because we're the ones putting out the television shows and movies and games that your kids watch and rely on to tell them what to wear, how to live and what to think.

But then, I know that the real reason your dad and other say such things is because our Governer is a Cyborg from the future.

http://www.dvd-science-fiction.com/upload/terminator.jpg

You're just jealous.

I hope Britney buys a house in your town, not far from where you are. And decides to live there. Forever.

Father in law, please. Dad has been gone since 95

As for Hollywoods effect on the rest of the country? Look at how far down things have gone in the last fifty years and then try to tell me anything good comes out of there.
It really isn't something to be proud of

 

[Weird Harold]

The swarming flies have a very simple motivation. Money. A good shot of somebody like Britney, or LiLo or Clooney or some others can be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

And consequently the fine for reckless driving and public endangerment arising from high-speed chase through neighborhoods that account for most oaf a city's property taxes are considered a "cost of doing business" by the paparazi and an occasion to over-react by the forces charged with protecting the source of all those lovely property taxes.

I can't really fault the authorities for over-reacting -- that's just an over-reaction to an over-reaction being financed by an over-reaction to generate more over-reaction by the unwashed masses.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Performers tend to be histrionic/narciscissistic personalities. They require lots of attention.

Mom coulda driven Britney to the hospital. The official response she got makes me wonder if the event wasnt staged. It keeps her in the news.

 

[geronimo_appleby]

The entire situation is very sad, but.... I laughed my ass off when I heard that she'd "decided" she was British, and had begun speaking with a "British accent."

eh?

is there a link to this anywhere? i'd love to check that out...

 

[SensualCealy]

Has anyone thought of the fact that Jamie-Lynn has been getting all the attention latey with her pregnancy that just maybe Brittany is jealous that no one was talking to her?

I think both these 'girls' are in desperate need of parental attention by parents who actually care about their kids, not selling them to the highest bidder!

Get this 'girl' help, and then get her away from Hollywood where no one will care if she is a has been or not. Maybe then she will get to see her boys in a more normal atmosphere.
C

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

eh?

is there a link to this anywhere? i'd love to check that out...

Yeah, Geronimo,

This British thing started a couple weeks ago when she didn't let her kids go and ended up on the nut farm last time. She began speaking with an assumed English accent. It was played on video on TMZ. Pretty funny, actually.

 

[JamieB]

Uh huh

As for Hollywoods effect on the rest of the country? Look at how far down things have gone in the last fifty years and then try to tell me anything good comes out of there.
It really isn't something to be proud of

You can't really look at Hollywood and say assume that's the entire state. You do watch crappy TV and movies made in California, but significant advances in high-tech roll out of California's silicon valley on a pretty regular basis.

You also probably eat strawberries, citrus fruit and cheese from California, drink wine from California, and wear clothes made from cotton grown in California. If you drive a Toyota truck, it may well have been assembled in California.

Sorry for the rant. I moved from there to New England for work eighteen months ago. To me, California is home.

J

 

[cloudy]

To me, California is home.

for me, too (Santa Barbara).

People only show their ignorance when they assume that Hollywood - all 9 square miles of it - IS California.

 

[Boxlicker101]

for me, too (Santa Barbara).

People only show their ignorance when they assume that Hollywood - all 9 square miles of it - IS California.

Or, for that matter, Los Angeles. It is the biggest city, but not the only major city. I have lived in CA for almost 48 years, and I expect to live here until I die.

 

[Weird Harold]

I have lived in CA for almost 48 years, and I expect to live here until I die.

You have my utmost sympathy Box. (I've lived in California, too but it only seemed like 48 years. )

 

[Boxlicker101]

You have my utmost sympathy Box. (I've lived in California, too but it only seemed like 48 years. )

Insults are an almost certain sign of envy.