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Kid Rock was sentenced to 80 hours of community service for his part in a brawl in a Waffle House restaurant in October, 2007, in which it’s said he threw the first punch. In early December of last year, Rock’s judge in Georgia refused to let him have credit toward his community service requirements by going to Iraq to perform for the troops. Judge Alvin T. Wong wrote that “giving [Rock] credit for something he would otherwise love to do in front of a camera completely defeats the punitive purpose of performing community service.”
Rock then bitched about this on his website, noting that he’d already done a fundraiser at the Waffle House and complaining that Judge Wong thought he had better plans for him than “tak[ing] pictures and spend[ing] time with the men and women who put themselves in harms (sic) way to protect the very freedom he and all of us live by.” For good measure Rock also published the judge’s contact information for all his fans to complain too.
Two months later and Rock is still trying to weasel out of his community service. He says he’s not being put to enough use by just shoveling show and doing clerical work and that he should be fundraising for the charity but that mean old Judge Wong isn’t letting him do it:
Rock then asked that charity work he had done for autism, Aids and war veteran organizations be taken into account – and that proposal was rejected too, so now the singer is begrudgingly clearing snow in his native Michigan, insisting his energy could be put to much better use. He says, “There’s so many people in Michigan right now that are really hurting, especially charities, who are looking for money to do what they do.
“The place I’m working with now does a lot of work with children with terminal illnesses, so they’ve got me here stuffing envelopes and moving boxes and shoveling snow – that’s what the judge wants me to do… They’re sitting here, like, ‘Man, we wish you could raise us some money.’ “I turned in over 120 hours, where I raised over… a million dollars and they disregarded all of that… I understand what he’s getting at – he wants you to go out and slap and spend your time and sit there, but it doesn’t make any sense… Whatever, I’m here schlepping 15 hours a day.” Kid Rock fears his community service stint will cost him an appearance at the Grammys this weekend: “I’m trying to juggle a few things around.”
[From WENN via Hollywood TV]
Of course Kid Rock can throw a fundraiser for the place where he’s doing community service – that’s a no brainer. All he has to do is show up on his own time to perform. He’s just mad that he won’t get credit for it, like he hasn’t received credit for his other volunteer work. When you beat up people and cause a public disturbance, you have to do some penance for it. Two weeks of helping out at a service organization is way better than going to jail, and if Rock ends up wanting to help them out more he can certainly do it. Instead he’s moaning about what a disservice the judge is doing by actually making him do a little work.
Kid Rock is shown in Austria on 12/8/08 and at the People’s Choice Awards on 1/7/09. Credit: WENN
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hahhhaahahaooo hoho ho heee, check out that ridiculous coat he’s wearing! LOL
This guy really should be glad he’s not picking up cigarette butts off freeways in winter with the rest of the drunks.
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I think that guy should have to shovel the $h!t that comes out of his mouth.
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If he’s not happy with his community service maybe he should spend some time in the pokey … he got off easy and now he’s bitching about it .. please!!
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Of course, a star like Kid Rock is underused if he clears snow.
Common people are not, it’s just the kind of job we’re born to do. Ha ha. What about humility Kid ? You’re no better than anyone else.
Raise that money already on your bar-brawling free time, or shut up and dig.
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God he’s ugly.
He doesn’t quite seem to get the concept of “punishment”…the judge explained his choice, and Rock just keeps saying the same thing. Get over it and just do the work already!
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OMG. What a puss. Yeah, he can fund raise on his own time, if that’s his main concern, and it’s obvious that it’s not. Hey, Kid, the point of punishment through court is to do what you don’t want to do. That’s why it’s called punishment. Moron. Now I don’t like this guy at all, whereas previously I at least liked his music. Well, most of it anyhow. Crybaby.
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boo fricking hoo… what a total twat thinking he should be able to use past “good works” in order to pay off current community service. christian bale should be allowed to go off on his ass cos it’s idiots like KR who just don’t get it.
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what an asswipe.
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I just hope the judge orders him to shovel my snow…. I’m in Michigan
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His hours of community service should be doubled just for wearing that horrific coat.
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He could be scooping up doggy poop, but that would be too much like a family reunion.
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Can’t he just beat the sh** out of it or snort it to make it go away?
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I have an inexplicable love for this man, but even I have to admit he’s acting the fool. Just STFU, already. At least he only has to shovel snow when a judge orders him to, as opposed to the rest of us who, unlike Kid, don’t have the cash to hire someone else to deal with our walkways/driveways in the winter.
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His coat cant even contain his ego and self-entitlement.
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The real test of how much he cares for that organization will be if he does a benefit for it after his community service time is over. My bet is he won’t.
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I was going to say (in line with jenn’s comment) that KR has been shovelling s**t for years verbally snow shouldn’t be a problem…
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Thanks for the infos! Your blog actually assisted me.
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