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Britney Spears taken from home in ambulance
The Telegraph ^ | 31/01/2008 | Bonnie Malkin

Posted on 01/31/2008 3:09:24 AM PST by prisoner6

Britney Spears taken from home in ambulance

By Bonnie Malkin
Last Updated: 10:53am GMT 31/01/2008

Troubled pop star Britney Spears has been taken to hospital in an ambulance to "get help".

The ambulance picked Spears up at her Studio City home shortly after 1:30 am (0930 GMT). It was escorted to the hospital by more than a dozen motorcycle officers, two police cruisers and two police helicopters.

Los Angeles police would not immediately confirm the report but one officer, who requested anonymity, said Spears was being taken to "get help".

Celebrity gossip website TMZ.com reported Spears was rushed to UCLA Medical Center where she was to be placed on a 5150 hold, the involuntary confinement of a person deemed to be a danger to themselves or others.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


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To: ByDesign
The papparazzi and press need to be reigned in, big time.

I've said this in threads about the Iraq war, and it's really no different here... The "media" has this idea that they're not just "the annointed," but also that they're special, and deserve special treatment. We see that here, just like we've seen in Iraq. Frankly, I think that a lot more people in the media need to be killed "in the line of duty," just to remind them that they're NOT particularly special.

I like the fact that Gwenyth Paltrow's hubby attacked one of the photographers... I just wish he would have kept the camera, and maybe really beaten the guy. Didn't Britney once "run over" a paparazzi's foot? She should have backed up and REALLY run him over.

A few dead "journalists" and photographers and maybe the rest would catch a clue.

And no, I'm really NOT kidding.

Mark

61 posted on 01/31/2008 5:49:21 AM PST by MarkL
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To: olezip

Mental illness has nothing to do with morality, and exactly how do you ‘hold someone to account’ (slight paraprhase) for a genetic glitch?

It’s not like she hasnt lost her children, or been publicly humiliated in ways that I dont think most human beings would survive no matter how strong they were. And this girl is so brittle ...


62 posted on 01/31/2008 5:51:49 AM PST by skipper18 (Fred or Bust)
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To: MarkL

I dunno—a lot of life’s misery is self-inflicted, and if she reallly hated it THAT much, she’d just “disappear”. Wouldn’t be the first time a celeb did it.


63 posted on 01/31/2008 6:01:49 AM PST by OCCASparky (Steely-Eyed Killer of the Deep)
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To: MarkL
The "media" has this idea that they're not just "the annointed," but also that they're special, and deserve special treatment.

I've said the same. They think being a "reporter" or "journalist" is a special calling, like how Priests and Nuns answer God's calling. They actually believe that during a gun battle, BOTH SIDES have an obligation to not shoot in their direction, and in fact, should be required to protect them. That's why they gasp so loudly when a reporter is killed.

64 posted on 01/31/2008 6:08:52 AM PST by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: ByDesign
It’s only a matter of time before a “celebrity” kills themselves in full view of the paparazzi and media, and those soulless bastards will print every frame

They're probably hoping for it.

The papparazzi and press need to be reigned in, big time. I don’t expect it to happen anytime soon.

It won't. Not as long as it sells those rags & keeps tabloid TV on the air. They're not even human. They're just impatient vultures.

65 posted on 01/31/2008 6:18:07 AM PST by Sue Perkick (And I hope that what I’ve done here today doesn’t force you to have a negative opinion of me….)
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To: Publius Valerius

‘The fault, dear Driftdriver, lies not in our stars, but in ourselves.”

Well my Dear, part of the fault does lie with those who make the demand. That does not make what the paparazzi do right. Oh and I wasn’t saying it was the stars fault. Its the paparazzi. The stars are part of the problem as they play it up but I can’t understand how they got away with jumping on the ambulance the last time.


66 posted on 01/31/2008 6:54:10 AM PST by driftdiver
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To: prisoner6

Again? Or is another article about the last time she was taken away?


67 posted on 01/31/2008 7:01:36 AM PST by gondramB (Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.)
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To: MarkL

>>A few dead “journalists” and photographers and maybe the rest would catch a clue.

And no, I’m really NOT kidding.<<

I don’t know... A few dead drug dealers doesn’t seem to stop the rest.


68 posted on 01/31/2008 7:04:15 AM PST by gondramB (Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.)
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To: driftdiver

It’s a line from Julius Caesar. Cassius is trying to convice Brutus that Caesar must be assassinated and he uses that line to explain to Brutus that things are the way they are because of the fundamental nature of people.

True then and true now.


69 posted on 01/31/2008 7:13:18 AM PST by Publius Valerius
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To: MarkL

“The “media” has this idea that they’re not just “the annointed,” but also that they’re special, and deserve special treatment.”

True, but considering that the biased “media” has such power and control over what we ‘take in’, what we are ‘fed’ on a minute to minute basis, and, IMO, as in the case of how all aspects of their election coverage influences the outcome of it, it’s no wonder the reporters act like Gods.

Montel Williams walked off the set of Fox & Friends during a commercial break the other morning when the anchors insisted first on yet another discussion about the death of Heathe, before they would promote his book. Williams argued NO and how shameful it was that the media coverage never includes the names of the soldiers who die on a daily basis in Iraq... and he left without any mention of his book. Props to him.


70 posted on 01/31/2008 7:17:00 AM PST by Kimberly GG (God Bless our true conservative patriots..... Duncan Hunter & Family!!)
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To: Celtic Conservative
That’s funny, I wasn’t thinking of britneys music right now, more like A certain Patsy Cline song....

Crazy or Stop the World (and Let Me Off)...or both.

71 posted on 01/31/2008 7:21:51 AM PST by Surtur (Free Trade is NOT Fair Trade unless both economies are equivalent.)
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To: MarkL
That's a good term. I also like the term, wooden shampoo, as well.
72 posted on 01/31/2008 7:30:19 AM PST by tkocur
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To: prisoner6

My wife predicted before the first time she was whisked away in an ambulance that within a year Britney will have committed suicide... I think my bride has accurately predicted Britney’s demise.


73 posted on 01/31/2008 7:32:05 AM PST by erikm88
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To: PennsylvaniaMom

I was looking for my favorite songs on youtube last week, and found this. It’s both beautiful and sad.

I was showing it to my 11 year old grandson.

He said, “Britney Spears is bi-polar, also.”

(I didn’t know that.)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=HFxhI_NgNBU


74 posted on 01/31/2008 7:39:25 AM PST by toldyou
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To: prisoner6; All

I have a riddle for ya’ll,

“How many tax dollars does it take to get a pop-tart to the hospital?”

Sheesh, do the math...


75 posted on 01/31/2008 7:40:16 AM PST by Sopater (A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left. ~ Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: MarkL
There are plenty of stars who don't act like idiots and don't fight with photogs so they are given some space. Britney and her gaggle of heiress sluts crave the attention or they wouldn't make the scenes that they make, sans panties.

If Britney really wanted to be left alone, she'd move away from LA and quit walking out and sitting on curbs for attention.

76 posted on 01/31/2008 7:55:22 AM PST by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Even my tagline is sad....I can't stand ANY of the candidates!)
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To: driftdiver
It is pathetic but those other people don’t have throngs of vultures chasing their every move. I don’t fault the police here.

I'm generally not too sympathetic to the plight of Hollywood celebs but, damn! The paparazzi around Britney has gotten crazy! I've seen where there's had to have been 200 photographers blocking her every move. It's no wonder she has fender-benders in parking lots.

77 posted on 01/31/2008 7:55:24 AM PST by Drew68
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

That was my first thought too.


78 posted on 01/31/2008 8:00:28 AM PST by CougarGA7 (Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.)
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To: windcliff

5150 ping


79 posted on 01/31/2008 8:02:33 AM PST by stylecouncilor (I'm a loner Dottie; a rebel.)
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To: MarkL
I’m not a big fan of the Paparazzi...they are vultures. But I think Britney craves their attention at this point in her life for some reason. You dont see other stars going out several times a day for coffee or to the drug store. They pay people to do that stuff for them. But Britney goes out every single day, several times a day knowing they are waiting for her. And she always drives herself which doesnt make sense either if she didnt want to be bothered she should get a driver. I think this narcissism combined with whatever mental problems she has is what is making her close to hitting bottom. Thats just the way I see it.
80 posted on 01/31/2008 8:04:23 AM PST by happilymarriedmom
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