If I’m reading this correctly, Randy and Eli Quaid failed to pay a $10,000 hotel bill. They were released on $40,000 bail but then didn’t show up at court. A warrant was filed and they’ve been arrested and locked up. Due to not appearing in court, they’ve forfeited the bail.
Do the math. They forfeited $40,000 and went to jail in order to avoid appearing in court over a $10,000 bill. The subtleties of this legal strategy are eluding me.
That’s because you have to be really, really drunk to understand it. 
It’s simple. They no longer can afford to pay for a lawyer. Free lawyer at public expense. 
Am I the only one that’s worried about the effect this is going to have on his career?
It’s going to be…devastating.
Curiously enough, my roommate works at the San Ysidro Ranch, the place the Quaids dined and dashed. Anyway, according to the Santa Barbara Independent, because the bill was so large, $10,000, running out on it is a felony. So, they face criminal charges, even though the bill has since been paid, according to this article:
Also, here is their arrest story in the same newspaper. It talks about Evi brandishing a Golden Globe during a hearing. I thought it was pretty funny.
http://www.independent.com/news/2010/apr/26/quaids-booked-released-jail/
Hey Randy, what’s in your wallet?
Y’know, it’s just sad.
It’s not just sad because there’s a lot of funny in it too.
Sad maybe, but you gotta admit they’d be fun to party with.
Just get them to chip in for the keg before hand.
I’d be willing to cover their liquor bill (not the limo, coke, etc) just to say I’d partied with them.
Randy: If they let you have computer access, email me!
If they used a bond it only cost them $4,000.
Yeah, but now Dawg is after them . . .
I guess the gas money must have given out in Gurnee.
Here is an update:
Woohee. Stick it to your wife, Randy!
I like all the Quaids. They seem to be independent spirits. I wonder what the inn did in the first place to piss Randy off? Also, $10,000? Gawd, what were they doing? Room service? I can’t imagine being presented with a bill like that.
Guess the shitter was full.
Yep, I can picture it now!
“Honey, they don’t take Discover here…RRRUUUNNN!”
He wanted hamburger in his Hamburger Helper.