Posted on 07/23/2013 8:09:38 PM PDT by rickmichaels
Troubled actress Amanda Bynes has been placed on an emergency psychiatric hold following an incident in Thousand Oaks, California on Monday.
Police were called to the neighbourhood after the Easy A star allegedly tried to start a fire in a resident's driveway, where she was accused of trespassing.
She was questioned over the small blaze and cops decided to take her into custody to undergo an involuntary mental evaluation, also known as a 5150 hold, reports TMZ.com.
Captain Don Aguilar of the Ventura County Sheriff's Department tells the New York Daily News: "Deputies investigated the incident and determined that (Bynes) met the criteria of 5150 (California Welfare & Institutions Code).
"She was detained and taken for a mental health evaluation."
Patients held on a 5150 order can only be kept under surveillance for up to 72 hours.
Byne's latest detainment occurred just a day after she was spoken to by police officers after allegedly turning up drunk outside an old people's home in Thousand Oaks on Sunday.
The two incidents are the latest in a string of woes for the actress - she is facing a charge of driving under the influence after allegedly crashing her car into a police vehicle last year, and a further accusation of driving on a suspended licence several months later. She is also accused of reckless endangerment, tampering with evidence and possessing marijuana after reportedly throwing a bong out of her apartment window during a police raid in May.
You would surpised at what stunner this girl was just a couple years ago.
Suicide hot line, please hold.
Reda post 2
Then get away from me
Better yet, learn something from this and from foisting sen clinyon on us and do something about this
You know i always defend NYers here reminding people that half of you didnt vote for her
But the obnoxiousness of your post along with the waste of time youre exhibiting and your not doing anything as a New Yorker to spare our country the embarassment of this man has turned me
Never again
Th New Yorkers are at the forefront of this
Tou are not looking good in this mess
They are distraught and feel helpless wirh an adult who is legally able to act as nutters as she wants.
Are you replying to the correct post?
Oh. My apologies
No, that poor Amanda Bynes
No i made the error of commenting on the NYT treatment of their moyoral candidate and responded to your post very much mistakenly
I should have, that’s true. It’s obvious that you come from a different area, if I’d just looked at the difference in capitalization!!!
“Now you know, and knowing is half the battle.”
They whipped Britney back together maybe they can.
I hope she gets her life together. I’ve never seen her in anything, but she is only 27 and clearly needs help. It’s sad to see anybody this young self destruct.
Drugs really destroy people. Such a waste.
They do. Hopefully someone can help her.
It sounds like this poor girl is coming down with schizophrenia.
Or more likely has taken a lot of drugs.
How come Lindsey Lohan is never placed on psychiatric hold?
I think maybe it's drugs ... yeah
I guess the threshold is pretty high. Lohan was doing the typical delinquent stuff, drugs, shoplifting, car accidents. Jail is probably the place for her.
Amanda Bynes is showing signs of actual insanity. She started a fire on her driveway, got gasoline on her dog and fire on her pants while doing it. Keeps waxing on about how ugly she thinks she and everyone else is.
Actually, come to think of it, I always used to confuse Amanda Bynes with her fellow “former child star on Nickelodeon” alumni Michelle Trachtenberg. They’re close in age and I used to watch them in the mids 90s. Similar looks, too:
http://www.morphthing.com/celebrity/37387238-Michelle-Trachtenberg—Amanda-Bynes?t=1
But I googled Trachtenberg and she seems to be doing perfectly fine, unlike train wreaks Bynes and Lohan. (all age 27, all former child stars. Lohan was a Disney gal though)
I’m guessing child stars do so bad cause they are exposed to drugs and booze at a young age.
“But I googled Trachtenberg and she seems to be doing perfectly fine,”
Not so much her career, Lohan and Bynes have starred in movies, however horrible they were.
She was clearly mentally ill from the start. Schizophrenia doesn’t show itself till around 19 or so.
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