This train wreck really needs to do some jail time. LOHAN TOOK US ON TERROR RIDE By TODD VENEZIA and KIERAN CROWLEY July 28, 2007 -- As she chased down her ex-assistant on a California highway at 100 mph, bombed bombshell Lindsay Lohan bragged she was above the law - and told police "the black kid" was driving, the three men in the SUV said in an explosive interview. It was a ploy that almost worked. "We could hear her saying [to police], 'No, I wasn't driving, the black kid was driving,' " Dante Nigro said. Nigro owned the SUV that the blond terror used in a stunning bid to chase down her estranged assistant, Tarin Graham, after Graham quit in a huff. The police "came over, and they were really interrogating me, [asking] if I was driving," said Jakon Sutter, the "black kid" who was only an unwilling passenger in the commandeered vehicle. Nigro and Sutter joined a third witness, Ronnie Blake, to give an account of Lohan's crazed chase, which was posted on the Web site TMZ.com yesterday. Their revelations blew apart the sanitized version of the chase that Lohan's camp has been trying to push - in which her people put the blame on Graham and her family. Among the men's claims: * Lohan commandeered a GMC Denali SUV owned by Nigro - while he was sitting in the passenger's seat. * Lohan was drunk and "raging like she lost her mind" when she grabbed the keys - and raced away even though the three men inside the vehicle begged her not to drive. * When one of the three men jumped out of the SUV as lush Lohan turned the ignition, she drove over his foot. * She drove at up to 100 mph - and when the two men inside begged her to stop, she said, "I'm a celebrity, I can do what ever the f- - - I want." "I was honestly terrified," Nigro told TMZ. "I really thought we were going to get severely hurt or all of us are going to die." Lohan's reps would not comment - though her dad, Michael, told The Post yesterday that she was acting out only because she was afraid to lose Graham. "When the people she cares for are taken from her life, she acts out," the father said after a hearing in his Nassau County divorce from Lindsay's mom, Dina, in which he was ordered to pay $500-a-week child support to their minor kids. Nigro said the episode occurred after Graham's boyfriend invited him, Sutter and Blake to a party. At one point early Tuesday, Graham had a fight with the boyfriend outside the soirée. This upset Lohan, who came out and told Graham to pipe down. Graham quit. Lohan "looked re ally intoxi cated, she looked very messed up on what she was on," Blake said. "She was raging like she lost her mind." Graham drove away. That's when Lindsay jumped in the driver's seat and rode after her. Before she did, Blake got out and his foot was run over. "I was yelling at the car, but it really didn't do anything," he said. "The only thing she did was just keep driving." "We started pleading with her: 'Can you please stop?' " Sutter said. Sutter and Nigro said Lohan held them hostage, refusing all requests to slow down as she raced up the Pacific Coast Highway at up to 100 mph. At one point, Lohan drove to the house of the Graham's mother, Michelle Peck, and began chasing her. Lohan "said that if we came forward with any of this information, we would get in trouble, she would sue us," Sutter said. Finally, she followed Peck to a parking lot near the Santa Monica police station and stopped. "She got out of the car like nothing happened," Sutter said. Lohan was eventually charged with drunken driving and cocaine possession.
Wow I am surprised that she did not say the black kid had the coke. She was trying to get that brother arrested I guess ol Lindsey is not to black friendly.
I am also surprised that she did not say that had the coke. Let us see the laws that LL broke. 1) LL was drunk and driving the SUV: Driving while under the influence (DUI). 2) LL drove over the foot of one of the three men: Considered a hit-and-run. 3) Drove at speeds up to 100 mph and she said that "I'm a celebrity, I can do whatever the f- - - I want" (mental state in which the driver of an automobile behaves recklessly): Reckless driving. 4) The remaining passengers were held against their will through life-threatening danger and pleaded with LL to stop the SUV (no one would jump out of a vehicle at such a speed): Kidnapping. 5) Had cocaine: Possession of a controlled substance. I sentence you to... REHAB. :roll:
She's already claiming the coke's not hers, but haven't heard who it belongs to. That must have been a terrifying ride. The woman being chased thought men were after her til she spotted Lindsay. I don't find her roles all that memorable and her star power is baffling.
I'm not surprised by this at all. She just felt (or her drug habit believed) that the police would be happy to accuse him because of his ethnicity. And 20 to 30 years ago, she may have been right. Remember the mom that drowned her kids in the South Carolina, but claimed that a Black man kidnapped her two kids. That accusation set off a nationwide manhunt for the kidnapper and the kids that went from the east coast and ended up on the west coast (perhaps in Washington state). Or, how about the bride to be, Jennifer Wilbanks, who concocted an elaborate story of a Hispanic male kidnapping and dragging her all the way out Colorado. In truth, she ran away simply to avoid marrying her "boyfriend." One look at her fiance told the whole story as to why she ran away (she was definetely marrying him for his $$$$$; he was no Brad Pitt!!!....more like the guy drinking Budweiser at a Nascar race who just happened to win the lottery). Nevertheless, her "kidnapping" set off another extremely expensive nationwide manhunt. My favorite, though, shows what Lindsay may have been thinking in the back of her mind regarding how poorly law enforcement has been in the past in accusing the wrong people because of their own biases while letting the real criminals get away. This example, for me, remains the most damning. Sadly, even the place I've adopted as my second home, the San Francisco Bay Area, had this problem in the late 1960's. Thankfully, it does not seem to have this problem today: On the night of October 11, 1969, two San Francisco police officers pull up to a suspicious looking white male wearing a jacket shortly after the murder of a cab driver. They examine him carefully and catch his attention as he walks slowly down the street. POLICE: Excuse me. Excuse me! The man pauses. POLICE: Did you see anyone walking away from that taxi cab? ZODIAC KILLER: What? POLICE: Have you seen an adult Negro male in the past few minutes? ZODIAC KILLER: Yes, I did. He went that way. POLICE: Thanks. Go home. The police never got that close to catching the Zodiac serial killer ever again. Even the "at large" Zodiac Killer clearly understands what Lindsay was trying to do.
