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'Rose Garden' singer charged with DWI
HoustonChronicle.com ^ | Dec. 3, 2004 | Associated Press

Posted on 12/03/2004 7:15:07 AM PST by Max Combined

DENTON -- Country singer Lynn Anderson, who had a Grammy-winning hit with Rose Garden in the early 1970s, was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated Thursday after police found her passed out in her car on the shoulder of an interstate highway.

About 7 a.m., Denton police received a call that a white Mercury Marquis traveling south on Interstate 35 was weaving and driving onto the shoulder. The caller followed the vehicle until it pulled onto the shoulder and stopped, police said in a written statement.

Anderson, 57, of Taos, N.M., was arrested after officers woke her and conducted a field sobriety test. She was taken to Denton City Jail where she was charged with DWI. She made $1,000 bond Thursday afternoon, said Jim Bryan, police spokesman.

Friend and manager Bonnie Garner told The Associated Press that she was unaware of the arrest. Garner said Anderson released a bluegrass album this year and had been at her home in Taos for Thanksgiving.

Anderson was the Country Music Association's female vocalist of the year in 1971.

Denton is 35 miles north of Dallas.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: alcohol; countrymusic; futurenataliemanes; norosegardenindeed; rodehardputawaywet; wheresmyteeth
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To: Max Combined
All these DUI pics all look the same!!


21 posted on 12/03/2004 7:38:16 AM PST by Lockbar (March toward the sound of the guns.)
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To: Max Combined

Oh no!

She used to be so pretty. She looks rode hard and put away wet now :(


22 posted on 12/03/2004 7:38:17 AM PST by najida (Aunt to The Cutest Baby Girl in the World! (Come on and name her already Bro!))
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To: Don Corleone
"A first year law student could get her off of this one if these are all the facts."

Not so fast there hoss...
Looks like the officers found her asleep behind the wheel. Likely the keys were in the ignition. That's a DUI in any state.

23 posted on 12/03/2004 7:38:28 AM PST by daylate-dollarshort
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To: Max Combined

Sad. I always enjoyed listening to her when I was younger.


24 posted on 12/03/2004 7:39:00 AM PST by knittnmom
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To: Max Combined

25 posted on 12/03/2004 7:39:14 AM PST by WildTurkey
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To: martin_fierro

Mercy.


26 posted on 12/03/2004 7:39:57 AM PST by Constitution Day
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To: martin_fierro; Constitution Day

All the artsy ones live in Taos.


27 posted on 12/03/2004 7:40:14 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim (I'm here because I'm not all there.)
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To: Lockbar
Lets not forget Glen Campbell:


28 posted on 12/03/2004 7:42:00 AM PST by Lockbar (March toward the sound of the guns.)
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To: daylate-dollarshort
DUI under the influence. Sleeping and driving are not the same.
29 posted on 12/03/2004 7:50:59 AM PST by Orange1998
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To: daylate-dollarshort
DUI Driving under the influence. Sleeping and driving are not the same.
30 posted on 12/03/2004 7:51:34 AM PST by Orange1998
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To: Max Combined

Same thread but from the Kansas City Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1293521/posts


31 posted on 12/03/2004 7:52:15 AM PST by AmericanMade1776
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Screwdriver then?


32 posted on 12/03/2004 7:57:05 AM PST by socal_parrot (LA woman gonna hafta do...)
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To: Orange1998
"DUI under the influence. Sleeping and driving are not the same."

Better stick with what you know. Drunks found asleep behind the wheel are routinely charged with and convicted of drunk driving!

33 posted on 12/03/2004 8:10:50 AM PST by daylate-dollarshort
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Separated at birth?


34 posted on 12/03/2004 8:21:27 AM PST by A.A. Cunningham
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To: A.A. Cunningham

I always think of the Imus parody of that song sung by Bill Clinton to Hillary.."I never promised you a full pardon".


35 posted on 12/03/2004 8:25:31 AM PST by Patrick1
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To: A.A. Cunningham

Great I can add her to my coffee "mug" collection with Glen Campbell, Nick Nolte, Wynonna, and James Brown. For sell at your local Shell station.


36 posted on 12/03/2004 8:26:55 AM PST by Patrick1
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To: Max Combined

If it weren't for the weight in her face, I would say that alcohol was a side issue in her case. She looks more like a confirmed tweaker than an alky.

37 posted on 12/03/2004 8:28:24 AM PST by asgardshill (November 2004 - The Month That Just Kept On Giving)
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To: Orange1998

"DUI under the influence. Sleeping and driving are not the same."

++++++

She was reported to Denton police by a motorist as driving erratically. When Police reached the area (within a couple of minutes of the call) she was found "asleep" in her vehicle, on the side of Interstate 35. When questioned, she thought she was in Gainesville (about 30 miles to the North of where she was).


38 posted on 12/03/2004 8:30:19 AM PST by roostercashews
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To: Max Combined
"was arrested after officers woke her and conducted a field sobriety test."

WOKE HER?!?!? LOL
39 posted on 12/03/2004 8:32:18 AM PST by melbell (groovy)
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To: A.A. Cunningham

The fall from stardom must be painful. Makes me appreciate, even more, my role as a mom-mom, getting all the sweet hugs from my grandbabies.


40 posted on 12/03/2004 8:36:16 AM PST by fabriclady
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