# Baretta Arrested! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 19, 2002, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baretta-arrested/104431 "2002-04-19T01:23:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CanadianSue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@CanadianSue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanadianSue)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baretta-arrested/104431/1 "2002-04-19T01:23:48Z")
[http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/04/18/robert.blake.case/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/04/18/robert.blake.case/index.html) After a year’s investigation, it looks like they finally decided he was involved. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baretta-arrested/104431/2 "2002-04-19T01:25:14Z")
Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time Don’t do it ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baretta-arrested/104431/3 "2002-04-19T01:33:45Z")
…and that’s the name of that tune!! [sub]astro flees for his life[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baretta-arrested/104431/4 "2002-04-19T01:49:36Z")
I saw the white car and the caption across the bottom of the screen on CNN just now. Here we go again, Goddamn it! Yet another excuse for the cable news networks to bombard us with fluff news for the spring and summer instead of focusing on real news and issues. Even more talking head lawyers, gossip reporters, and celebrity “friends” yacking away all day. Why couldn’t Robert Blake kill Dan Abrams, Greta Van Susteren, Alan Dershowitz, Geraldo Rivera, or Larry King? It’s going to be a long summer… And the Little Rascals curse lives on. ---
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baretta-arrested/104431/5 "2002-04-19T02:01:16Z")
Glad to see life in these United States is getting back to normal. Say, what’s Gary Condit up to lately? ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baretta-arrested/104431/6 "2002-04-19T02:06:55Z")
What Little Rascals curse? That reminds me … Did you hear that when Buckwheat grew up, he became Muslim? Know what his Muslim name was? … wait for it … “Kareem of Wheat” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baretta-arrested/104431/7 "2002-04-19T02:11:57Z")
I wonder why _now_. What’s different, almost a year later, that they finally decide he’s a suspect? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baretta-arrested/104431/8 "2002-04-19T02:15:00Z")
He’s always been a suspect. I guess now they think they have enough to hang him with. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baretta-arrested/104431/9 "2002-04-19T02:23:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jomo Mojo \* > **What Little Rascals curse?** You do know that Blake was a member of Our Gang (as they called “The Little Rascals” back then)? He used his real name – Mickey Gubitosi. This was toward the end of the series, when they had moved to MGM; those episodes don’t appear on TV all that much. He also had a small part in “The Treasure of Sierra Madre” as the newsboy who sells Humphrey Bogart a paper. Lots of “Our Gang” actors had trouble adjusting the adult life. ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baretta-arrested/104431/10 "2002-04-19T02:26:42Z")
I volunteer to adopt the bird…Fred 😃 ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baretta-arrested/104431/11 "2002-04-19T02:28:39Z")
I meant the Little Rascals thing as a joke, but several of them died relatively young or under strange circumstances, or became drug addicts, etc. It’s probably more of a “child star who can’t adjust to growing up” kind of thing rather than a curse. Spanky seemed to grow up to be a well adjusted guy, but Robert Blake is screwed up. Ever see him on Tom Snyder’s show? His story about Alfafa drowning a goat was so sick and funny at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baretta-arrested/104431/12 "2002-04-19T02:50:07Z")
Wow! Finally. I was anticipating this news for a couple of months after the murder, but in the last few months I figured it was never going to happen. Will be interesting to see what they’ve got on him. He looks as guilty as sin when you take into account the confusion over exactly _why_ he left her in the car. Surely if he is involved, he could have come up with a better story than “I left my gun behind”? ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baretta-arrested/104431/13 "2002-04-19T02:59:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Johnny L.A. \* > \*\*He’s always been a suspect. I guess now they think they have enough to hang him with. \*\* C’mon, Johnny, you know what I meant! (Sorry I missed seeing your latest pirate boat, but I HAD to go visit family instead of to Farrel’s.) I mean, I wonder why they’re saying **on the record** that he’s a suspect; what do they have on him that they didn’t before? Or what happened to destroy the already rickety alibi **cazzle** mentioned? ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baretta-arrested/104431/14 "2002-04-19T05:55:56Z")
Just watched the press conference by the LAPD. Apparently they have **900** pieces of evidence pointing to him and his bodyguard. Jeez, Bobby, ever hear of a PAPER TRAIL?!?!? I think Brittany Spears could’ve masterminded a cleaner murder than that! (I feel bad. One of my guilty pleasures in High School was the show “Helltown.” Where else could you have a character named “One Ball?”) ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baretta-arrested/104431/15 "2002-04-19T11:46:42Z")
> [@](#): > > I think Britney Spears could’ve masterminded a cleaner murder than that! Britney doesn’t have to murder people. She could just put them in a locked room with a 5 foot length of rope and her cd’s playing in “repeat” mode… ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baretta-arrested/104431/16 "2002-04-19T13:46:23Z")
THANK you, Widdershins! In what universe is a police car taking someone to jail “news?” I mean, there WERE a few other things going on yesterday: two wars, a plane crash, a train wreck . . . But no, CNN and MSNBC followed that fucking car down the highway for NINETY GODDAM MINUTES. “Yes, Bob, I see it—yes, it HAS stopped at a traffic light.” It’s like the summer stock version of O.J. . . . ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baretta-arrested/104431/17 "2002-04-19T15:18:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > **In what universe is a police car taking someone to jail "news?"** The same universe which consideres denials to be “news”. “We Enron executives did nothing wrong.” “I did not kill my wife, I just had to go back for my gun.” “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.” Sorry, people saying exactly what we expect them to say is not news. It _would_ be news if they made an admission of guilt right when the story broke! ---
**Author:** ![Kamikazee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Kamikazee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamikazee)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baretta-arrested/104431/18 "2002-04-19T15:26:38Z")
Not entirely unexpected, but sad in a way, I really liked the show “Baretta” when I was a kid. Yet another member of the Hollyweird society that thinks they are above the law. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baretta-arrested/104431/19 "2002-04-19T15:31:30Z")
I don’t know… this story sure raised Greta’s eyebrows. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baretta-arrested/104431/20 "2002-04-19T18:54:28Z")
“I don’t know… this story sure raised Greta’s eyebrows.” —Garbo rose from the dead to be surprised by Robert Blake? "I t’ank I go home now . . . " [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baretta-arrested/104431.md?page=2)