Shaun White arrested for vandalism, hospitalized

NBC Sports ^ | Sep 17, 2012, 5:53 PM EDT | Matthew Kitchen

[Hunton Peck]

I guess I'd have assumed that repairing trashed hotel rooms is just factored in to the price of hotels that cater to pop and sports stars, etc.

Maybe it was the bleeding that upset them, seeing how it can spread diseases and all...

[IronJack]

Another flash-in-the-pan doofus who doesn’t understand the fleeting nature of fame ...

[RedMonqey]

Sounds lihe the “Flying Tomato” got “pasted”.

[South40]

This should make for another entertaining ‘celebrity’ mugshot.

[Cyman]

You say tomato, I say icehole.

[Fester Chugabrew]

I say, “Bush’s fault!”

[RichInOC]

If Harvey didn’t headline this “Attack of the Flying Tomato!”, I’ll be deeply disappointed.

[GeronL]

idiots

[trisham]

From Wikipedia:

White was born in San Diego, California. His ancestry includes Irish and Italian.[2][3] He was born with a Tetralogy of Fallot, a congenital heart defect for which he endured two open-heart operations before the age of one.[4] He stands 5'8" (1.73 m) tall. White spent his formative years riding Okemo Mountain and Bear Mountain, small ski resorts found in Ludlow, Vermont, and the San Bernardino Mountains of Southern California.

*****

I hope he finds his way.

[dfwgator]

Gold medal snowboarder Shaun White was arrested in Nashville Monday after allegedly getting drunk and trashing his hotel room, according to TMZ.

A rank amateur compared to Keith Moon.

[ponygirl]

Party like a rock star.

[LetsRok]

... from a faux sport.

[Farmer Dean]

The Randy Travis mugshot was great.He really looked like hammered sh!t.

[colorado tanker]

Following in a fine tradition . . .

[pieceofthepuzzle]

“A rank amateur compared to Keith Moon.”

Or Joe Walsh — ‘I live in hotels, tear out the walls. I have accountants, pay for it all’.

Don’t know much about Shaun White, but saw something about his charity work for children’s hospitals. He apparently had surgery as a child and wants to pay back. So, he has significant redeeming qualities - along with what appears to be a significant amount of growing up to do.

[John W]

[blueunicorn6]

This is a guy who earned a gold medal in the olympics because he has such good balance, and he falls down running away. He’s not gonna get that gold medal in Drunk Snowboarding.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Someone recently commented that red haired girls can be beautiful, but red headed guys less so, so can they come up with a red haired gene that only occurs in females?

[snowrip]

Spoken exactly like someone who is unable to do it.

The next time you pull an off-axis 1080 twenty feet off the lip of a Superpipe (that’s 36 feet, nearly four stories, off the ground), let me know.

White may be an idiot for behaving like he did, but he’s a world-class athlete with more coordination and balls than you could ever dream of.

[Hunton Peck]

A government grant for such a study is one that even I might support!