# Justin Bieber arrested for DUI, drag racing **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 23, 2014, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justin-bieber-arrested-for-dui-drag-racing/679523 "2014-01-23T13:51:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justin-bieber-arrested-for-dui-drag-racing/679523/61 "2014-01-24T05:30:10Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I just hope that he doesn’t join Club 27 about 8 years early. I’ve got him in the Death Pool. Just saying. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justin-bieber-arrested-for-dui-drag-racing/679523/62 "2014-01-24T05:43:51Z")
> [@appleciders](#): > > I’ve got him in the Death Pool. Just saying. Maybe you should try your hand at picking stocks? You seem to have some talent for prognostication. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justin-bieber-arrested-for-dui-drag-racing/679523/63 "2014-01-24T06:30:26Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > I heard they had problems getting him out of his car seat. It’s hard to see over the dash with a hooker in your lap. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justin-bieber-arrested-for-dui-drag-racing/679523/64 "2014-01-24T06:35:59Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > [MSNBC interrupts Congresswoman for report on Justin Bieber](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH68bSJXGE8) that is fricking hilarious all by itself. ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justin-bieber-arrested-for-dui-drag-racing/679523/65 "2014-01-24T06:57:27Z")
> [@Lazlo Hapsburg](#): > > Unless maybe he could then buy his own island and fake his death and then hide out on that island for a long, long time. Nah. He’d end up working at a 7-Eleven on Elvis’s off shifts. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justin-bieber-arrested-for-dui-drag-racing/679523/66 "2014-01-24T07:29:44Z")
Jim Morrison had talent. Therein lies the difference. To compare the two is an insult. He’s more like Vanilla Ice, or Lindsay Lohan. > [@jasg](#): > > A friend was denied entry to Canada because of a DUI. > > Does this arrest mean Canada won’t take him back? 😃 Was your friend a citizen of Canada, like our hero Bieber? I know they don’t let non-citizens in, but Canadian citizens probably can still be deported. ---
**Author:** ![Virgil\_Tibbs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@Virgil\_Tibbs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Virgil_Tibbs)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justin-bieber-arrested-for-dui-drag-racing/679523/67 "2014-01-24T10:58:39Z")
Even his rebellion is tedious. Hopefully his demise will be more interesting. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justin-bieber-arrested-for-dui-drag-racing/679523/68 "2014-01-24T12:56:24Z")
Frost’s _The Death of the Hired Man_ appears to have been written in 1905 or 1906 (“Home is the place where when you have to go there, they have to take you in”). That said, I can never make the math work with Bieber’s age. First time I heard of him was when I saw tjis seven-year old kid singing in the “We Are the World” remake to benefit victims of the Hatian earthquake in 2009. So he should be twelve at the most, yet people keep throwing "19-Y.O. y.o. out there. Do they use a metric calendar in Canada, or what? ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justin-bieber-arrested-for-dui-drag-racing/679523/69 "2014-01-24T13:15:20Z")
Eh. When female child/tween/teen stars hit 18 or 19 they do a Maxim photo session in their undies to prove they’re not kids anymore. Males have to "gangsta’ it up. ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Alex](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atomic_alex/32/175_2.png) [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justin-bieber-arrested-for-dui-drag-racing/679523/70 "2014-01-24T14:01:01Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > So, hear me out on this one. > > I think I can speak for all baby boomers about the admiration and affection we have for Keith Richards. The Stones are one of many soundtracks to our lives. We admire that Keith has shot, snorted, drank and main-lined just about everything imaginable, yet still writes songs, tours and apparently loves his job. > > What if all of this is a marketing ploy to move Bieber into the bad-boy category so that he’s not just the idol of teenaged girls. What if this is a calculated plan to remake his image so that he has a wider range of followers, for example males and females in their 20s and possibly 30s? > > What if he becomes the Jim Morrison of today’s pop culture? Hey, I’m just throwing it out there for comment, because really getting clocked at 60 MPH in a Lamborghini and immediately admitting to drinking, smoking pot, and taking prescription drugs sounds like a really good start to attempting to mold a new image. > > What if? Yeah, it all sounds completely manufactured to me. 60 mph in a Lamborghini? Really? Granted its an offence, twice the posted limit, he shouldn’t have done it, and he deserves to be convicted, but 60 mph in a car like that sounds more like something that was deliberately planned to get him into trouble but not too much trouble, its not exactly what I picture ‘street racing’ to be. And in the interests of full disclosure I have no particular feelings on Bieber either way, I did hear him interviewed on British radio a couple of years ago and he came across as quite funny and self-effacing so I’m surprised at his antics now. But then I don’t find the rock and roll lifestyle laudable no matter who does it. ---
**Author:** ![Vita\_Beata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@Vita\_Beata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vita_Beata)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justin-bieber-arrested-for-dui-drag-racing/679523/71 "2014-01-24T14:09:00Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > “Popping anti-depressants”? :dubious: You want him to have a happy mugshot, don’t you? The Biebs can’t go all “Nick Nolte” on us too early! ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justin-bieber-arrested-for-dui-drag-racing/679523/72 "2014-01-24T14:51:57Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > That said, I can never make the math work with Bieber’s age. First time I heard of him was when I saw tjis seven-year old kid singing in the “We Are the World” remake to benefit victims of the Hatian earthquake in 2009. So he should be twelve at the most, yet people keep throwing "19-Y.O. I will admit, the math works better if you use his real age which was 14 in 2009. ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Alex](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atomic_alex/32/175_2.png) [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justin-bieber-arrested-for-dui-drag-racing/679523/73 "2014-01-24T15:01:13Z")
This is supposedly the initial police report of his arrest. [http://www.epicinter.net/justin-bieber-arrested-on-drugs-prescription-meds-and-under-the-influence-of-alcohol-while-drag-racing-police-report-leaked/](http://www.epicinter.net/justin-bieber-arrested-on-drugs-prescription-meds-and-under-the-influence-of-alcohol-while-drag-racing-police-report-leaked/) ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justin-bieber-arrested-for-dui-drag-racing/679523/74 "2014-01-24T15:23:23Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > Paging **VogueVixen**. Bieber is way too old for her now. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justin-bieber-arrested-for-dui-drag-racing/679523/75 "2014-01-24T15:32:07Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > If you have all the money you need, no real job, no need for a real job, not much education, no real friends, and all you’ve ever known is how to perform in the teeny-bopper entertainment business, what the hell do you do with your time? I’d help the poor… Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justin-bieber-arrested-for-dui-drag-racing/679523/76 "2014-01-24T15:34:46Z")
> [@Disposable Hero](#): > > This is supposedly the initial police report of his arrest. > > [Loading...](http://www.epicinter.net/justin-bieber-arrested-on-drugs-prescription-meds-and-under-the-influence-of-alcohol-while-drag-racing-police-report-leaked/) Assuming the document is real, what does this mean? “Officer Dionne observed def to have a flushed face, bloodshot ye, and the odor of an alc be on his breath. Def was offered SFSTs on a flat, dry, smonth and well lit surface (see DUI test report for results).” In particular, what are SFSTs? ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justin-bieber-arrested-for-dui-drag-racing/679523/77 "2014-01-24T15:42:03Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > … > In particular, what are SFSTs? Standardized Field Sobriety Test. ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Alex](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atomic_alex/32/175_2.png) [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justin-bieber-arrested-for-dui-drag-racing/679523/78 "2014-01-24T15:52:11Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Assuming the document is real, what does this mean? “Officer Dionne observed def to have a flushed face, bloodshot ye, and the odor of an alc be on his breath. Def was offered SFSTs on a flat, dry, smonth and well lit surface (see DUI test report for results).” > > In particular, what are SFSTs? Officer Dionne observed defendant to have a flushed face, bloodshot eyes, and the odor of an alcoholic beverage on his breath. Defendant was offered Standard Field Sobriety Tests on a flat, dry, smooth and well lit surface (see Driving Under the Influence report for results). Thanks Leaffan I figured thats what that abbreviation meant but didn’t know the wording. ---
**Author:** ![theR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@theR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/theR)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justin-bieber-arrested-for-dui-drag-racing/679523/79 "2014-01-24T16:24:11Z")
> [@Disposable Hero](#): > > This is supposedly the initial police report of his arrest. > > [Loading...](http://www.epicinter.net/justin-bieber-arrested-on-drugs-prescription-meds-and-under-the-influence-of-alcohol-while-drag-racing-police-report-leaked/) It’s weird that the URL is saying the report was leaked when in fact it was released by the police. It is part of Florida’s sunshine laws. See the following MBPD tweet: [x.com](https://twitter.com/miamibeachpd/status/426432874586181632) You can see the full three page report since it was also tweeted by MBPD. Page 1: [x.com](https://twitter.com/miamibeachpd/status/426382452706127872) Page 2: [x.com](https://twitter.com/miamibeachpd/status/426382855476740096) Page 3: [x.com](https://twitter.com/miamibeachpd/status/426383292229644288) ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justin-bieber-arrested-for-dui-drag-racing/679523/80 "2014-01-24T17:25:06Z")
> [@Lazlo Hapsburg](#): > > This is an excellent point. Anyone renting a car would need to see the driver’s license. Wouldn’t they? > > P.S. This comment was made by “gaffa”. But it was made in a post by “StusBlues”. I just want to be clear about who made this comment. Nah, the comment was mine, mate. I was replying to **gaffa** , though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justin-bieber-arrested-for-dui-drag-racing/679523.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justin-bieber-arrested-for-dui-drag-racing/679523.md?page=5)