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Randy Quaid Arrested in Texas on California Warrant
Houston Chronicle ^ | Sept. 24, 2009 | AP

Posted on 09/24/2009 5:44:33 PM PDT by don'tspeak4me

MARFA, Texas — Actor Randy Quaid and his wife have been arrested in West Texas for allegedly skipping out on a $10,000 California hotel bill.

Quaid and his wife, Evi, were taken into custody Thursday afternoon, according to Santa Barbara County sheriff's officials, who said authorities in West Texas informed them of the arrest. A statement from the California agency said it was told by the Presidio County Sheriff's Department that Evi Quaid was restrained after a brief struggle.

Presidio County Sheriff Danny Dominguez declined to respond to questions from The Associated Press.

Presidio County authorities said earlier Thursday that the two were in custody in Marfa but the department wasn't releasing other details.

(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: chat; eddiejohnson; hollywood; quaid; theft
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To: nufsed

Does anybody remember The Last Detail? I thought he was great in that movie.


61 posted on 09/24/2009 7:27:54 PM PDT by Sicvee (Sicvee)
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To: Walvoord

May I ask what the source is of these lights? Seriously, I’m curious.


62 posted on 09/24/2009 7:29:38 PM PDT by jla
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To: buccaneer81

Didn’t the aliens do an anal probe on Randy?


63 posted on 09/24/2009 7:30:46 PM PDT by Snurple (VEGETARIAN, OLD INDIAN WORD FOR BAD HUNTER.)
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To: don'tspeak4me

You can arrest someone in Texas for that?

How would the Rangers know of this and their location?


64 posted on 09/24/2009 7:31:25 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: Snurple
Didn’t the aliens do an anal probe on Randy?

Indeed they did.

65 posted on 09/24/2009 7:42:35 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: smokingfrog

Figures. Big Buck, Hollywoody place. JFK and Jackie honeymooned there. Had dinner there once with a family party, many hundreds of bucks.


66 posted on 09/24/2009 7:42:39 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg (hoaxy dopey changey)
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To: Ken H
IIRC, Donald Sutherland took the full pay option instead of a percentage for his role as Professor Jennings in "Animal House". He didn't expect it to be such a hit.

True. He got $40,000 (probably $125,000 in today's dollars) for it. Big mistake.

67 posted on 09/24/2009 7:44:54 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: jla

In 1975 I was part of a geology filed trip with 2 bus loads of students and 2 Geology professors along with a astronomy club that had 5 each 6” clestron telescopes. We observed these Marfa lights for 4 hours. Years later in about 1989 I went back with my brother a doctor and a friend and spent about 6 hours looking at these lights and driving 90 mph down dirt roads to try and get closer before they faded out. I tend to think they are some kind of ball static electricity. To me they look like a person standing 100 yards away holding a flash light that is slowing going dead fading from white to yellow and then out. They would get excited and start to go up and down like a person jumping up and down and then move off to the side say 10 degrees then slow down and fade out. They lasted from about 3 to 10 minutes each and there would be 1 to 10 viewable at a time. They are real and they are not car lights. When I was there in 1974 there were no ranchers or cars at all for miles and miles. It has always bothered me for years that I could not find out more scientific data on these lights.


68 posted on 09/24/2009 7:50:05 PM PDT by pwatson
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To: Sicvee


Randy seems to have conveniently ignored "The last detail" of paying the hotel bill. But seriously, his wife seems full blown CRAZY! Welcome back to Texas Randy ;o)
69 posted on 09/24/2009 8:13:29 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: jla
“May I ask what the source is of these lights? Seriously, I’m curious.”

Wish I knew. They’ve been known to exist for a long time. The first recorded historical record of the Marfa Lights goes back to the 1870s I think. Ranchers didn’t know what they were. Modern studies have been made by teams of geologists and atmospheric experts, but it is still a mystery.

When I saw them it was really interesting. My wife and I waited in the pitch darkness beside the road for several hours. A few other cars pulled over to watch. Then all of the sudden a bright ball of light appeared in the distance before disappearing. Then in quick succession other lights began popping up and burning out. They seemed to hover above ground level in the distance. Some flickered with green, yellow, or redish hues. Other balls of light would split into two and then three lights before burning out. I took video. It was very interesting.

70 posted on 09/24/2009 8:19:40 PM PDT by Walvoord
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To: OrangeHoof

Traveling east from Monahans on I-20 in late 1975, I covered 109 miles in an hour in my 240Z.


71 posted on 09/24/2009 8:21:37 PM PDT by Erasmus (Barack Hussein Obama: America's toast!)
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To: vetvetdoug
When in the Marfa area, run the other way when you see this guy:
72 posted on 09/25/2009 1:56:36 AM PDT by Lockbar (March toward the sound of the guns.)
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To: Sicvee
Does anybody remember The Last Detail? I thought he was great in that movie.

Yeah, I remember that one..

the infowarrior

73 posted on 09/25/2009 2:12:20 AM PDT by infowarrior
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To: OrangeHoof

I was gonna mention that you forgot to mention Ft. Stockton.... the beginning (or the end) to the longest straightaway in Texas (probably the US) nonstop. But you did mention it ;)


74 posted on 09/25/2009 2:53:06 AM PDT by Bikkuri
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To: vetvetdoug

Been to Marfa quite a few times.Always liked the place.
Things have changed a lot in the last few years.
Seems a lot of northerners moving in.
House prices have jumped considerably.
Not the same anymore.Regards


75 posted on 09/25/2009 7:41:27 AM PDT by xarmydog
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To: OrangeHoof

I have a place south of Alpine and would move out there in a hearbeat if I could.

I love it out there.

Sometimes I think I was born in the wrong century.


76 posted on 09/25/2009 7:43:12 AM PDT by Rightly Biased (If Clinton was the first black president then Obama is the first black Jesus.)
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To: Ken H

Yeah, lots of people choose unwisely. But you’re supposed to suck it up and laugh at it—not sue for punitive damages.

His wife seems off-kilter, but according to IMDB they’ve been married for 20 years! That’s a lifetime in Hollywood.


77 posted on 09/25/2009 5:08:16 PM PDT by sugaree
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To: biff

That’s one of the few landscapes that windmills IMPROVE the looks of.


78 posted on 09/25/2009 10:46:07 PM PDT by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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To: BARLF

“Does Marfa have a jail? “

Yes, with lights...


79 posted on 09/26/2009 10:10:56 AM PDT by Buck W. (The President of the United States IS named Schickelgruber...)
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To: Buck W.

chuckle..


80 posted on 09/26/2009 11:54:18 AM PDT by BARLF
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