Robert Downey Jr. Busted...Again

By Acheron April 24, 2001 2:55 PM

In what has practically become weekly news, Robert Downey Jr. has been arrested on drug charges yet again.  When is he ever going to learn?  Click here to read the full story.

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on April 24, 2001 4:31 PM

He is screwed.

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on April 24, 2001 5:04 PM

and deserves to be!!!!
Most people learn from their mistakes

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on April 24, 2001 6:34 PM

How can you say that type of thing....it's people like you that prevent others from getting the support and help that they need.  Addiction is extremely hard to overcome, especially when you have the money for it.  Obviously he needs some type of help, and is not getting it!

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on April 24, 2001 6:42 PM

you'd think he'd learn from past mistakes.. the only person he needs to help is himself. he probably did get some kind of help from rehab, but because of the level of addiction he's in.. outside help doesnt matter anymore at this point.

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on April 24, 2001 6:48 PM

*sniff*sniff*snort*... ahhhh... Now I'm ready to go for a drive.  I sure hope I don't run over Callista Flockhart.  *where did I put that sniffing straw?*

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on April 24, 2001 7:49 PM

sniffing straw...?

NO PITY FOR DOWNEY!   reply

Posted by Mets Fan (mimibobo23@hotmail.com) on April 25, 2001 6:51 AM

ROBERT DOWNEY JR has had enough chances to overcome his "addictions". The public feels for these "celebrities", just as some did for Darryl Strawberry. Well, they're just people. I'm sure we all know people in our lives with so called "addictions", but we don't feel sorry or show compassion for them. We despise those individuals, tell our children and family and friends to stay away from that "loser" or "druggy". Well, DOWNEY should get the book thrown at him this time, his celebrity status should not be taken into account. If he'd stick to his recovery program instead of his celebrity status of "I'm a star!", maybe he'd improve. I will not and do not support such problems and choices regarded of thier social status. He's had more chances then he deserves, now lets put him where he belongs, in prison with all of the other repeat offenders.

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on April 25, 2001 11:35 AM

Yeah, but too bad inside there is no help. There's just as many drugs inside as there are outside. When are we, as a society going to stop criminalizing the addicts and start treating the illness. If he had cancer and the treatment didn't work they'd try again and again until he was better or dead. Not us though...we say he's weak and spoiled and send him to prison instead with a holier then thou "You had your chance buddy". It's an illness, an addiction. He and other addicts don't have will power. I've got an idea! Lets put all the addicts (yes, that includes you cigarette smokers!) in prison. If you can't quit smoking and get cancer or emphysema we'll just say it's you're own damn fault. No treatment for you. Why is one addiction criminalized and the other one a huge source of revenue for corporations and the government? Too many hypocrites spouting crap as far as I'm concerned.
Lets hope Downey gets the help he needs someday. I can guarantee it won't be in prison.

GOING TO THE POKEY   reply

Posted by Mets Fan (mimibobo23@hotmail.com) on April 25, 2001 11:50 AM

ROBERT DOWNEY JR IS GOING TO JAIL THIS TIME! THROW AWAY THE KEY! Only kidding. Look, I know all about addiction. I know all about recovery. Obviously, he thinks he doesn't have a problem when he chooses to pick up the drugs that cause his life chaos. The definition of insanity is doing the exact thing over and over again.......but expecting different results. Do you have pity on the "addict" who harms you or someone else? Why not, it was thier addiction that made them do it, right? BULLSHYT!!!!

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on April 25, 2001 4:31 PM

You know, I pity the poor guy.  It must not be easy for him.

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on April 25, 2001 6:12 PM

Shut-up and pass the crack pipe!

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on April 25, 2001 7:48 PM

What the problem with doing drugs he is not hurting one but his self. Everyone should mind their own business!

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on April 26, 2001 5:14 AM

its sissys like you you that let these junkies back onto the street to kill inocent families...

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on April 26, 2001 5:16 AM

yeah right till he comes to YOUR house looking for something to pawn, dumbass

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Posted by FredHater (fred_hater@hotmail.com) on April 26, 2001 7:25 AM

actually thats the police...the junkie is the guy running and the family walked into the line of fire...unfortunately, junior made a sudden move for his rattle and the cop, naturally, had no choice but defend himself

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Posted by TheUndeadChick (zombiebme@yahoo.com) on April 26, 2001 7:49 AM

Something tells me the Robert Downey Jr. doesn't exactly need to be breaking into peoples' houses to find things to pawn at this point. I mean, he's Robert Downey Jr.

Anyway...I think the sad thing here is that the slot that Downey is taking up (and apparently takes up over and over again) could be filled by someone who actually does want to help themself.

Please don't compare addictions, by the way. Let's not place cigarette smokers and coffee drinkrs in the same boat as crackheads and heroin junkies. It's apples and oranges, my friend.

And the cold hard fact remains that people must be responsible for themselves. It's one thing to make a mistake and get bailed out once, maybe twice (I mean, we're not so black of soul that we just plain don't want to help) but to do it repeatedly? Come on. And we are supposed to keep up the same level of sympathy everytime?
With all the common knowledge of these drugs, guess what...it really IS their own damn fault. There IS no one else to blame. Now, I can respect someone who made the stupid mistake of getting addicted, and then kicked it. They are forgiven. But, frankly, I don't give a rats' ass about these people (including Downey) that just bounce in and out of rehab, acting like they're such a victim. Sure, they're victims...of their own pathetic, drooling stupidity.
I say lock his ass up. Don't let him out to "work" (uh...make movies and more money to buy smack when he gets out...again). Time to pay the piper.

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Posted by Mets Fan (mimibobo23@hotmail.com) on April 26, 2001 10:04 AM

YEAH!

Apples & Oranges   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on April 26, 2001 10:37 AM

Actually from an addictions perspective, it's apples and apples.  Caffeine and Nicotine and Alcohol just happen to be legal and are as if not more addicting than many of the illeagal recreational substances.

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Posted by TheUndeadChick (zombiebme@yahoo.com) on April 26, 2001 10:27 PM

I don't think I've ever seen a person overdose and die on...coffee. Maybe I'm just not hanging out in the right coffee houses. Can we compare coffee houses to crack houses? That's sounds like fun.

My point reiterated: Apples and oranges. They are both fruit, but completely different.

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Posted by peacefrog (oneprimal@hotmail.com) on April 28, 2001 5:33 AM

shes right ya know, ive never seen anyone NEED coffee soo much they robbed a bank or stole from family....

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on April 28, 2001 5:39 AM

your the dumdass he has more money than you. If you can afford it leave him alone.
People who break in homes and steal get their ass. You are like all the rest of the dumbass's trying to tell everyone to be like you. I bet you don't haven't any bad habbits, Do you? You are the one on the front row of the church bench. The go out and drink all week!  

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Posted by peacefrog (oneprimal@hotmail.com) on April 28, 2001 8:38 AM

whats next?? you gonna throw all the pepsi drinkers in jail too? thats the most absurd raveing i've heard in sometime... thanks for the grin

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Posted by critic21 (No Email) on April 29, 2001 2:15 PM

leave the guy alone. i know he makes enough money that hes not selling drugs. hes a good actor and if a little coke helps him entertain me Ill split an 8-ball with him and maybe rock up some crack just for sh*ts and giggles

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Posted by critic21 (No Email) on April 29, 2001 2:33 PM

this argument is retarded. with that logic I could say Ive never seen someone smoke a joint and die of lung cancer and Ive never seen someone hit a bong and have there liver fall out there ass or beat there wife, get in a fight,crash there car and die,or crash there car and kill someone.however I have personaly seen all these things with alcohol and tobacco witch are legal.leave downey alone let him do his drugs if he commits a real crime when hes on drugs or off drugs then send him to jail. I bet you people that want him locked up are going to get drunk and smoke this weekend. remember alcohol was illeagal once.

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on April 29, 2001 3:06 PM

problems or not, he was hands down the best choice for "the joker" in batman 1. he was also great in "wolf".

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on April 29, 2001 3:43 PM

that was nicholson you idiot. downey played batman in Batman 1.

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Posted by TheUndeadChick (zombiebme@yahoo.com) on April 29, 2001 8:49 PM

Bwahahahahaha! (burp) Pardon me...I'm drunk.

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on April 30, 2001 7:51 PM

Downey isn't going to jail for his addictions.  That is just the big lie that those who get off on glamorizing drugs tell.  He is going to jail for his CRIMES.  

What crimes could the boy vacuum have committed?

DUI mostly.  It's illegal as hell and very deadly.

Unfortunately they only put people in jail when it is clear that they can not stop driving under the influence.

The truth is Downey doesn't want to quit.  If you really want to quit, you got to change your life completely,  Move out of th old neighborhood, get new friends, change jobs.  

No, he doesn't want to quit, doesn't want to leave Hollywood, go to school and learn a trade.  He still thinks he can live the fast life and not do drugs.  But his is proving that he can't.

He is trying to bargain with God, but it's the devil who answers the phone.

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Posted by TheUndeadChick (zombiebme@yahoo.com) on April 30, 2001 7:59 PM

There goes god again, sticking his amazingly infinite and all powerful nose into everything. Geez.

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on May 1, 2001 5:01 AM

HELLO SPELL CHECK,

GET A WARNER"S GRAMMER BOOK YOU SAP.

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on May 1, 2001 5:46 AM

if he can afford it, leave him alone?? what the hell is wrong with you???  hes not sitting at home, hes buying CRACK on the STREET at 3am, do you not see anything wrong with tis picture?

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on May 1, 2001 6:13 AM

youve got issues man, a cup of coffee and a heroin-filled hypo are very different vices, are you saying you expect us to view them as the same?  And by the breaking into houses comment i only meant that he has put himself in a position that typically ends in thievery and death, If i came off sounding holy it was not my intention and i apologize for that.  no, I dont go get drunk every weekend but as everyone else I partake in my own way, in fukin moderation moron, when it gets to the point where hes at, its a problem.  Just because hes got the $ to back it does not make it ok, and yes I do want him locked up, hes a menace to society, and mabye I will get drunk and smoke this weekend, ITS LEGAL..

ps: if youve never seen anyone do a bong hit and have their liver fall out their ass your not doing it right

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Posted by TheUndeadChick (zombiebme@yahoo.com) on May 1, 2001 7:18 AM

I would shell out some good hard cash to see that.

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Posted by critic21 (No Email) on May 1, 2001 10:40 AM

f*ck it legalize everything. i dont give a f*ck what downey or any other adult for that matter wants to put in there body.if they rob somebody or commit a real crime then lock him up.who cares if he doesnt want to quit.if I had the oppertunty to do drugs and f*ck hollywood sluts all day I would. alcohol is not illegal and coke is.who cares so are blowjobs in most states but I dont think you need to go to jail and get f*cked in the ass for it.....which by the way is also illegal

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Posted by peacefrog (oneprimal@hotmail.com) on May 1, 2001 11:02 AM

well i guess we all know how you would act, thats more then likely why your a middle aged fat guy in a trailer...alone

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Posted by TheUndeadChick (zombiebme@yahoo.com) on May 1, 2001 7:31 PM

Now, now kids. Let's all play nice.

Someone pass the needle...

Batman????   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on May 2, 2001 3:26 AM

Downey had nothing to do with Batman I

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Posted by critic21 (No Email) on May 10, 2001 11:50 AM

ouch...... but IM 25,ingaged, and own my own company. The fat part you got right though.with your amazing powers of observation you should work for cleo, youd probably make a better living that way

i love ~*~robert downey jr~*~   reply

Posted by virginia (virginia_77) on May 24, 2001 8:19 PM

HI EVERYONE
i love ROBERT DOWNEY JR so much and i dont think he should go to jail hes and amazing actoar and has a totally good voice and hes DAM SEXY at that and about that comment about the sniff sniff one well f*ck YOU!!!! well luv the #1 fan Virginia

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on June 5, 2001 7:10 AM

you obviously need to go back to school and learn to spell.  i feel sorry for your employees of the company you "own".  i hope you can manage to spell your name right on your paycheck.

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Posted by Sexyhottie (cinderellashows@yahoo.com) on February 2, 2003 3:36 PM

it was Michael Keaton who played 1st Batman

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on July 19, 2003 2:02 PM

Since when did Prison do anyone any good.  The guy was screwed up enough already without having to deal with that!  Whatever goos rehab might do and hopefully, it will work, might help him to stop.  Other people have managed it.  In the end, no addict stops until they decide they can beat the addiction and face up to whatever it is in their life they are running from.  I for one hope he makes it, as I hope every addict of whatever class manages to kick the habit.  Privilege is not a guarantee against unhappiness.  Robert Downey will either kill himself or kick the habit, like any other addict.  Celebrities are easy to ake pot shots at so leave the guy alone!