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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.
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"She has lived a tough life, by the looks of her."
Hey -- I never priomised her a rose garden!
--Makes me appreciate, even more, my role as a mom-mom, getting all the sweet hugs from my grandbabies.--
Ain't that the truth! I'm not a grandma yet, but I sure do love being a mom!
Actually, this is a great example of how our legal system has nothing to do with justice, nor even with legal and illegal anymore. I was in jail with a man who was arrested for DUI in AZ. He explained how, on a holiday weekend, he inbibed a little too much inside his apartment. When he started feeling a little nauseous, he went outside for some fresh air and sat down on the grass behind his car. Shortly thereafter he decided if he was going to sit in the grass on a nice sunny November Phoenix day he should pop the hatchback of his car and listen to the radio. It was just a short time later a police cruiser came by, questioned him, then arrested him for DUI because since he was intoxicated, and he was the closest person to the car with the keys in the ignition, he therefore had 'control' of the vehicle and was therefore guilty of DUI according to statute.
By the same reasoning, I am guilty of driving on a suspended license every morning when I start the car and scrape the windshiled for my wife, to help her out so she can drive me to work.....
In your own driveway?
I have on tape a 1973 Monday Night Football broadcast between Pittsburgh and Miami where Frank Gifford is patched into the PA system at the Orange Bowl before kickoff as the camera is focused on the field where a shapely blonde steps up to the microphone.
Gifford: "And now, ladies and gentleman, please welcome internationally known country and music recording artist...Loretta Lynn."
It was Lynn Anderson. Shaking off a momentary puzzled look, she starts in with the Star Spangled Banner.
One could only imagine what happens to Giff when he's pulled over for suspected DWI.
My hometown makes the news, and it's for something like this!
WOW! You did NOT have to post that picture!
Friend at the police station says they're looking to buy a new camera now.
She sure hasn't aged well.
If she was drunk and behind the wheel, it'll take more than a "first year law student" to get her off - it'll take a miracle.
Or a big contribution to somebody's re-election campaign.
Being a mom-mom, as they call me is great.
Seems like I can give them more attention than my two babies, now they are 44 and 49, they give me a lot of attention.
And, I feel sorry for Lynn Anderson. I hope she gets the help she needs.
"My hometown makes the news"
Yes, that is why it caught my eye as well. I worked in Denton and lived outside of Sanger for a few years. Nice area.
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Whoa! And Glen Campbell looks like Imus in the post right above yours!
It's prolly sexist, but Rose Garden never seemed like a song for a woman to sing. "I could promise you big diamond rings." I know some men like diamond rings, but they usually like them so they can tell the world they bought them. I don't think they want to say, "Yeah, my girl got it for me!"
And that's your chauvinistic post of the day!
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