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So, it turns out that Jesus walks, but Kanye West has to do jail time.On Sept. 11, the egotistical rapper and his partner in crime/manager/bodyguard Don Crowley were booked for felony vandalism and taken into custody after throwing a colossal hissy fit at the Los Angeles International Airport. During said tantrum, West rushed a photographer and broke a camera reportedly worth more than $10,000. Crowley, wanting to get in on the action, proceeded to go on his own spree of destruction, confronting a TMZ cameraman and smashing his equipment.
However, fortunately for us, West and Crowley's reign of terror didn't prevent footage of the attack from reaching the Interwebs. For shortly after the incident, a video of the two assaulting the first photographer and spiking his equipment appeared on the TMZ?website, inciting well-deserved mockery of their actions.
However, unfortunately for us, West is loaded and thus was able to post the $20,000 bail required to spring Crowley and himself from the clink. They are now walking the streets, looking for more cameras that they might send to an early grave.
Regardless, if we have learned anything in the wake of this incident, it is that West didn't anticipate that being an attention whore comes with being followed by paparazzi. Maybe he'll plea na'veté in his Oct. 2 court appearance.
In other, less frightening celebrity news, train wreck Amy "Wino" Winehouse lived to see her 25th birthday. However, the perpetual partier failed to show up to her own celebration, which was held at the Jazz After Dark Club in Soho, London.
This is just the latest in Winehouse's most recent string of public missteps, which include showing up trashed for a DJ gig at the Monarch Lounge in?Camden, backing out of a Paris show and advance ordering 48 bottles of Jack Daniel's for her performance at the Bestival festival on the Isle of Wight. Amazingly, Winehouse was able to stand during the?Sept. 6 Bestival performance, though she was 45 minutes late.
But, then again, better late than passed out.
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