100MPH Prius DUI chase!

[rouxroux]

http://www.breitbart.tv/html/2581.html

I guess while your'e running from the cops with a DUI and a load of drugs, it helps to not have to burn all your "carbon credits" by going 100MPH in a Prius. How thoughtful!

[Tobra]

A prius will go 100, be that would be scary

[azasadny]

Al Gore's son arrested after being pulled over, authorities say

July 4, 2007

ASSOCIATED PRESS

LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. — Al Gore’s son was arrested early Wednesday on suspicion of possessing marijuana and prescription drugs after deputies pulled him over for speeding, authorities said.

Al Gore III, 24, was driving a blue Toyota Prius about 100 mph on the San Diego Freeway when he was pulled over at about 2:15 a.m., Orange County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Jim Amormino said.

The deputies said they smelled marijuana and searched the car, Amormino said.

They found less than an ounce of marijuana along with Xanax, Valium, Vicodin and Adderall, which is used for attention deficit disorder, he said.

“He does not have a prescription for any of those drugs,” Amormino said.

Gore was being held in the men’s central jail in Santa Ana on $20,000 bail.

Kalee Kreider, a spokeswoman for his parents, did not immediately return phone messages to the Associated Press on Wednesday.

The son of the former vice president and Democratic presidential nominee also was pulled over and arrested for pot possession in December 2003, in Bethesda, Md., while he was a student at Harvard University.

He completed substance abuse counseling as part of a pretrial diversion program to settle those charges.

The youngest of Al and Tipper Gore’s four children and their only son, Gore lives in Los Angeles and is an associate publisher of GOOD, a magazine about philanthropy aimed at young people.

[dd74]

Obviously "An Inconvenient Truth."

[onlycafe]

to paraphrase paris, that's a hoot.

[pwd72s]

Funny...but what I found really interesting here? OREGONIAN coverage. Our state's only large newspaper. Back when the Bush girls were caught underage drinking? Front page news, photos, etc. ALGORE's kid? A tiny 4 paragraph article...akin to their reporting of a tavern hold-up.

The tiny article is probably all the publicity both stories deserved.

[legion]

Originally posted by pwd72s
Funny...but what I found really interesting here? OREGONIAN coverage. Our state's only large newspaper. Back when the Bush girls were caught underage drinking? Front page news, photos, etc. ALGORE's kid? A tiny 4 paragraph article...akin to their reporting of a tavern hold-up.

The tiny article is probably all the publicity both stories deserved.

I'd like to believe if Gore was president, this would have gotten the same coverage as the Bush twins. I do think sensationalism even trumps the media's underlying political leanings.

[fingpilot]

The Prius will go much faster than that. Only the truly ignorant would actually do it at 2AM with a back seat full of prescription drugs for diseases that you don't have.