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Hephaestion
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posted 07 October 2005 10:23 PM      Profile for Hephaestion   Author's Homepage        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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(New York) Boy George was arrested on suspicion of possessing drugs and making a fake police report after calling 911 early today, police said.

The British gay performer, whose real name is George O'Dowd, claimed his home had been burglarized about 3 a.m. today, said Detective Kevin Czartoryski, a police spokesman.

Officers arrived at O'Dowd's Manhattan apartment and discovered a small amount of cocaine next to a computer, police said. Police were continuing to investigate.Barbara Thompson, a spokeswoman for the Manhattan District Attorney's office, said O'Dowd was still in police custody and was awaiting arraigment this evening. He was yet to be charged.

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Sanitary Engineer
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posted 07 October 2005 11:06 PM      Profile for Sanitary Engineer     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
George O'Dowd?

I thought it was George Bush, the headline was referring to.

But GWB probably has a gofer to feed his coke habit, and to fetch his liquor.

He's lied about everything else, so I don't believe he gave up "partying" at age 40, and "found the lord", unless he believes "the lord" is at the bottle of a Jack Daniels bottle.


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posted 08 October 2005 12:32 AM      Profile for Doug   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Boy George does drugs? Oh come on, next thing you'll be telling us he's gay.
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posted 08 October 2005 12:39 AM      Profile for googlymoogly     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Boy George is gay?????
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posted 08 October 2005 12:41 AM      Profile for chubbybear        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
People are stupid.
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posted 08 October 2005 02:12 AM      Profile for FabFabian        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm fed up with these famous rich assholes and their drug addictions. Everytime I see a Rimmel ad it screams Cokehead to me.
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posted 08 October 2005 03:22 AM      Profile for Cueball   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I am absolutely shocked and appalled. It never occurred to me that Boy George might do coke. Who'd have thought it?
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Hephaestion
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posted 08 October 2005 04:11 AM      Profile for Hephaestion   Author's Homepage        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
*I* am appalled that he's so stupid as to call the cops and leave his coke just sitting out in the open like that. Who does he think he is, anyway? Marion Barry? George Bush? John Delorean?

Whadda maroon!

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Colville
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posted 08 October 2005 05:45 AM      Profile for Colville     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Hello cocaine, goodbye brain!
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posted 08 October 2005 06:43 AM      Profile for Slumberjack     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
First Eric Clapton, then Kate Moss, and now this.
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posted 08 October 2005 08:38 PM      Profile for paxamillion   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by FabFabian:
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm fed up with these famous rich assholes and their drug addictions. Everytime I see a Rimmel ad it screams Cokehead to me.

Someone want to pass this boy a ..... never mind.

Why wouldn't we continue to see famous people busted for drugs? Drug addiction is no respecter of occupation, profile, gender, income, etc. etc.

Maybe what's at issue are media outlets who are keen to publish information about the misfortunes of the famous.


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Colville
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posted 08 October 2005 08:48 PM      Profile for Colville     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
That's what sells.

Addictions have a way of humiliating and diminishing people. I hope the guy can find the help he so obviously needs.


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posted 08 October 2005 11:14 PM      Profile for paxamillion   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Colville:
I hope the guy can find the help he so obviously needs.

Me too.


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posted 09 October 2005 07:00 AM      Profile for chubbybear        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Colville:
I hope the guy can find the help he so obviously needs.
If he was not wealthy and famous, but just your local neighbourhood crack head, he would be doing hard time. Don't worry, he will be fine, will do some community service giving useless speeches to high school classes, get a few months in at a spa-like private 'treatment' centre, do the talk show circuit and get a best selling book ghost-written.

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Hephaestion
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posted 10 October 2005 11:21 AM      Profile for Hephaestion   Author's Homepage        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
"It ain't mine!" says Boy George.

Gee, I wonder why no one else has ever tried to use that defense...


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Yst
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posted 10 October 2005 12:34 PM      Profile for Yst     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
The star-studded image that cocaine is gaining is certainly worrisome. I just recently learned that one of my oldest and best friends has been recreationally using cocaine for the last year, and is continuing to. And I'm fairly sure the glamour it's acquired has something to do with his decision to indulge in it, stupid as that is. He grew up in a fairly impoverished, problematic urban household which has left him with an odd mix of, on the one hand, progressive politics and on the other, an inner desire nevertheless to be like the rich as he conceives them. And I think he believes that cocaine is something the rich and successful do. It's stupid, but I'm fairly sure it's part of the psychology of it.

And Lysiane Gagnon's column today on Boislair in the Globe kind of brought the point home regarding Cocaine's glamour. As far as anyone can guess at this point, his admitted cocaine use (at least he admitted it) doesn't appear to have successfully generated bad press or much overt statement of public concern, and while that may be circumstantially reasonable, it may too be associated with that increasing acceptance. But then, cocaine use didn't so much as put a dint in George Bush's bright shiny wholesome image, and that was in god fearin', drug fearin' America, in a Presidential race, not in progressive, left-leaning Quebec, in the preliminaries to a provincial party leadership race.


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posted 10 October 2005 02:59 PM      Profile for chubbybear        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Yst:
The star-studded image that cocaine is gaining is certainly worrisome.
I think crack use is still pretty heavily stigmatized. Perhaps you mean intranasal use as opposed to skin popping, smoking or shooting.

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Hephaestion
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posted 11 October 2005 03:28 AM      Profile for Hephaestion   Author's Homepage        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Tut, tut... naughty, naughty...

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Boy George has flown the coop, taking off for the UK and leaving his recent cocaine charges behind. He hopped on the first plane to London and was uncharacteristically tight-lipped when he arrived at Heathrow Airport. "I am not speaking to anybody about it," George told reporters. "Don't ask me any questions, because you are not going to get any answers at all." Later reports have revealed that police found George "stoned out of his gourd" and there were actually 14 bags of cocaine lying on a table.

Hmmm... I wonder if Curious George will seek to have Boy George extradited to stand trial...


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posted 11 October 2005 04:13 AM      Profile for baba yaga     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
The BBC News Magazine did an article yesterday on just this topic - the glamorization of coke. Readers comments at the bottom are of interest as well. Seems about 1/4 of them use "socially" and the rest are pissed off at having to put up with the arrogance of friends/relatives who use cocaine. Many point out the hypocracy of the media, who rag on celebs & then go home to get coked up themselves. Robbie Williams even claims he did coke with a journalist.

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Cocaine is an addictive Class A drug, its use widely deplored. Yet, as recent events perhaps show, its sphere of influence is wider than we might think. So, do we have a paradoxical attitude to the drug?

I'll admit I used coke about 25 years ago. It was readily available and my then painful shyness and marriage breakup pains allegedly disappeared by snorting. Yea, right!


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Hephaestion
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posted 11 October 2005 04:42 AM      Profile for Hephaestion   Author's Homepage        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I did coke a lot more recently than that, BY... fortunately for me, I like to get mellow when I do drugs, not strung out, so I was never all that taken with the coke high. (Plus, it was just too gawdamned expensive.) So, I gave it up (about the same time as I gave up acid, permanently). Now I confine my ARCs (alternative recreational consumables) to organic substances, and feel a lot better for it.

... but I watched a few of my friends flush their whole lives away over the coke. It's a nasty drug...


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posted 11 October 2005 05:26 AM      Profile for baba yaga     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Heph -

ARCs

Yea, it was in between the coke use that my ex was the nastiest. After our divorce, I got clean & sober while he secretly became a "recreational" user. I found some on his kitchen table, in full view of our teen children & their friends. Why am I telling all this? Oh, it was a nasty time.

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posted 11 October 2005 07:06 AM      Profile for A longsuffering conservative     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Flying off to London "wasn't a good thing". Poor Fool, is he ever in for it now...
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Hephaestion
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posted 13 October 2005 08:42 PM      Profile for Hephaestion   Author's Homepage        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Turns out there was a bit more coke than they first let on...

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Newly released documents from the Manhattan District Attorney's office show that the "small amount" of cocaine found in Boy George's apartment was actually much bigger than the performer's lawyer originally claimed.

The documents say that a total of 13 bags of the drug were found in his home when he was arrested.

Substances found in the 13 plastic bags weighed more than one-eighth of an ounce (3.5g) in total, the legal papers stated.

"That is a sizeable amount of drugs," said Maggie Gandasegui from Manhattan's Special Narcotics Prosecutors office. It is not enough, however, to warrant possession for the purpose of distribution charges.

Still, if convicted of the possession charge, Boy George, whose real name is George O'Dowd, could face 15 years behind bars.



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posted 17 October 2005 06:52 AM      Profile for Hephaestion   Author's Homepage        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
If anyone cares. here's the supposed "real story" behind George's bust. As Philo said, "Doesn't really explain where all the cocaine came from, but at least we know George hadn't lost all of his marbles"...
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posted 17 October 2005 07:19 AM      Profile for Crippled_Newsie     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Perhaps I'm being catty, but in this photo of Boy George arriving back in Britain, does he or does he not look alot like Divine?
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posted 17 October 2005 01:03 PM      Profile for Doug   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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Originally posted by Tape_342:
Perhaps I'm being catty, but in this photo of Boy George arriving back in Britain, does he or does he not look alot like Divine?

He thinks he's a man, but he's only a Boy?


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