3 Celebrity Arrests that Surprised Us in 2017
People often look up to celebrities. After all, they entertain their audiences through the roles they embody, live lifestyles people view as worth emulating, and reach out to fans in ways that endear them to all. And the media portrays them as being paragons of virtue whom everyone should emulate — which is why it’s always somewhat of a surprise when a celebrity winds up in trouble with the law. Learn about three such arrests that caught us off-guard in 2017.
Tiger Woods
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Tiger Woods swept the links like Michael Jordan slam dunked the basketball. Woods has inspired countless kids to take up the game of golf and became a hero to many as he coolly knocked golf balls across the most challenging courses.
It came as a bit of surprise when he got a DUI over Memorial Day weekend. But alcohol wasn’t in his system. Rather, the substances were Xanax and Vicodin, two opiate-based painkillers that he mixed together. Woods had back surgery earlier in the year, and he was probably taking the medication for pain management. However, he should have used better judgment before getting behind the wheel of his vehicle.
Miles Teller
Miles Teller has seen his career take off after starring in the Oscar-winning movie “Whiplash.” While seeing one of his friends off to a career in the military, Teller started his troubles when he overdid it with the drinks.
An officer observed Teller having difficulty standing and approached the actor to understand the problem. The officer started to question Teller, who then became uncooperative rather quickly. Teller was already having trouble standing and almost found himself lying in the street. The officer decided to cuff Teller and offered to take him to a detox center.
Teller made the unwise decision to refuse, but the officer tried to take him to the detox center in the hopes that Teller would cooperate. When it became clear that no cooperation was forthcoming, the officer arrested him and charged him with being intoxicated in public. While the charge itself is only a misdemeanor charge, it’s a charge nonetheless.
Ahman Green
Children aren’t always the joys and blessings they’re made out to be. Parents may sometimes find themselves driven to their wit’s end by an obstinate child. But most parents generally don’t stoop to the level of abuse as a form of discipline — except for Ahman Green, that is.
Green decided to throw his 15-year-old daughter to the ground, then hit her in the face after she refused to do the dishes. Further compounding the matter is the fact that Green admitted to police that he slapped his daughter upside the head. Green found himself arrested and charged with child abuse for his actions against his daughter.
All of these examples go to show that celebrities today — and in past decades — are and have been capable of bad judgment of varying degrees. Sometimes people make the wrong decisions while others make very poor decisions and wind up in the spotlight as a result of their actions.