Bruce was arrested for driving under the influence.

I can't get this phrase out of my head ....I am plagarizing and It is a punch line without a joke ...so here i go ...

Bruce is doing a follow up to the Tom Joad Album

Tequila Mockingbird

I'll grab my hat 😀

Its back up 😄

Meanwhile over on our former home, the sense of disappointment at today’s outcome from some posters is nauseating.

This whole incident smells political to me probably going back to 41 Shots.

Maybe it's time for Jeep to put that commerical back on line, now? Not that I liked the idea of Bruce doing commersials in the first place, but still...

I think I can pay that immediately, Your Honour!

https://www.inquirer.com/news/new-jersey/bruce-springsteen-drunken-driving-charges-dropped-20210224.html

Justice would appear to have prevailed.

I'm not sure what "consuming alcohol in a closed area" means, but I think he'll live with a $500 fine.

In a legal sense, I still don't understand how he can be charged with drink driving if he's measured at 1/4 of the legal limit.

All very strange.

I read some stuff at other places...you'd have thought Bruce was a serial killer or something. He used some poor judgement....but if the 0.02 thing is accurate this whole thing is nonsense. I'm more shocked that is took so long for the story to come out.

Eric L. Harrison. In his 25 year career at M&W Eric has represented clients in more than 50 jury trials, more than 50 bench trials and countless motion hearings in New Jersey Superior Court, U.S. District Court and the New Jersey Office of Administrative Law.

The blood test was 0.02 for alcohol. But what if the combination of alcohol and any of his medication made him an unfit driver? Why would anyone in his right mind walk 48 steps when instructed to walk 18?

I read somewhere that Bruce was asked to do 18 steps, turn, and walk back.

He kept waking for 48 steps before turning.

If all of this is true, the way he was stopped and if in fact he only had a shot of tequila, maybe it was an act of dissobedience or provocation?

The whole thing seems utterly ridiculous to me. But then, the US have some ridiculous laws.

This seems to be probably the first federal DWI case in American history. Unless the Prosecutor has an absolutely bulletproof case I'm sure Springsteen is backed up by the manpower to pulverize it.

Reading this thread makes me so proud to be on here - a measured, grown up discussion with no rush to judgement without knowing all the facts, (none of us do).

Contrast this with the character assassination of Bruce and feeble juvenile puns on GL.

'Everything went to shit for Bruce'...? That's a news article???

Maybe it's not a bullshit charge after all.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy8jdk/an-attorney-explains-how-bruce-springsteen-got-a-dwi-without-being-drunk

This.

Finally, a sensible, measured discussion on this event as opposed to some of the silliness on other sites.

With regard to the question of what it would take to dislike Bruce as a person? Not sure. What would it take to dislike his music? Even less. Certainly, this indiscretion isn't close.

Bruce has been trying to tell us for years... trust the art, not the artist. As far back as 2005's Storytellers show, he was trying to pick his own bubble... that funny story about being at the strip club and saying that holier than thou Bruce Springsteen was off doing good deeds, the story about Patti telling him "Say that in your next interview, Mr Bruce Springsteen". The first five or so minutes of the Broadway show was him telling us he's a fraud, it's all a magic trick. Sure, it was all self deprecating, but it's on us as fans, not on him, if we couldn't hear the reality he was trying to give us.

I'm sitting here listening to Detroit 88 and loving it right now. No change to how the music hits me. Tomorrow, I may listen to Incident or No Surrender... the effect those two songs have on my soul, heart and spirit isn't changing. Hell, every Stones biography has two or three stories of Keith Richards crashing his car while on every substance known to people kind, before running away and leaving his paid minions to deal with the fall out. Yet the drink and drug drenched majesty of Exile On Main Street is one of my favourite albums.

Sure, with Bruce it feels a bit different as he has always given and shared a lot of himself. But for me, this is like if a family member did this. I'd be disappointed, angry, hopeful they'd learnt their lesson. But the light they bring into my life would soon diminish the dark.

These figures ...... 0.02....0.08.....whst do they translate to? Scotland the breath limit is 22, England 35, blood Scotland 50, England 80.

It makes me happier than it probably should to know Bruce is still riding bikes at 71. There's hope for me yet.

The limit being 0.08. Arrested for 0.02. Looks like bullshit charges to me. Or is it anything I'm missing?

Springsteen blew 0.02 - quarter of legal limit, source says

https://eu.app.com/story/news/local/courts/2021/02/10/springsteen-blew-0-02-quarter-legal-limit-source-says/6712582002/

1. Go MAGA.

2. Go MAGA

2 questions:

1. What would Bruce have to do that would make you despise him as a person?

2. What would Bruce have to do that would make you stop listening to his music completely?

if I read a confirmed report that Bruce was driving one of his cars in Jersey or wherever, drunk as a skunk, and endangered lives or, God forbid, hurt someone, I'd be very unsympathetic right now. This story, however, is a mountain being made of a molehill and stinks to high heaven.

I'm not a blind acolyte but Bruce has not diminished one iota in my eyes.

Sound of an axe being ground? Still pretty silly thing to do, what with a pandemic on the go.

You're right; I first though it was coffee from a Thermos top, then I remembered that Bruce hates coffee...so, tequila from a Thermos cup, then.

It did indeed, and that seemed very weird. It now seems extra strange.

As far as the Jeep commercial, didn't it include Bruce doing a shot over the hood of the Jeep?

So this is kinda interesting.

This entire thing smells of bullshit and retaliation post Jeep ad. "Go find me some dirt on little Bruce Springsteen!!!"

Who goes out for a drive and takes booze along cos they might fancy stopping and having a drink alone, sitting in the Jeep? I mean, it’s not even a motel car-park. It’s either dumb or there is a problem.

Doing the commercial off the back of it seems even dumber.

Guess he’s human after all.

It's so nice to wake up to the news saying that he is nonetheless a saint. 🙂

How much would one have to drink to have 0.08? I know it depends, but roughly...

Yeah. As ENJ mentioned, this is interesting.

When the story broke, I didn't think it made a lot of sense. Whether Bruce Springsteen should get special treatment or not, in NJ of all places, you'd think he would. Which means either it was worse than initially reported, or someone had it out for him. (Or the arresting officer is simply an especially stand-up individual. And I'm afraid in 2021, despite Eugene Goodman's extreme heroism and lightning-quick thinking, seems by far the least likely to me.) If this follow-up story is true, it seems the latter would be the case.

But the other thing I don't quite get is how something like him drunk driving could happen at all. I mean, yes, of course, I get how it happens. Except I really would have thought he had people--assistants and bodyguards--whose jobs are, in part, to make sure that stuff like the boss driving drunk never, ever happens.

Interesting times.

Apparently a story in the Asbury Park Press that Bruce blew a .02 which is a quarter of the legal limit .......

Much as it pains me, I have to admit to driving after drinking more than was strictly allowed.

I had a good reason - no other way to get where I needed to be, not going far - and whatever other rationalization I could think of later.

It happened during my young and foolish days. Although I am disappointed in Bruce, no longer young and foolish, I'm inclined to cut him some slack. At least until knowing the circumstances.

Drinking and driving at age 71 - I smell alcohol problems or mental illness. Especially when afterwards going through with the car commercial without telling Jeep about the DWI arrest.

Our man is not on a good run just now.

And there’s hope on the road up ahead.

Yeah, Bruce. And a roadhouse.

I certainly wouldn't shoot a car commercial if I were a celebrity and got caught driving under the influence. It's idiotic.

Someone should have stopped him, both times.

I'm not going to preach, it happens to the best of us...

And I was upset because his seat belt wasn't fastened in the commercial...

Aaaaaaand they've deleted "The Middle" from YouTube 😂 What a peculiar week for the Springsteen community.

No driving all night for some 👠 then?

Not sure if this is a busy place, why he did it, if other people were at risk or how much he drank. I can’t see a minorias situation where I‘s get behind a wheel after drinking. I have never done it, actually.

Right now, I only think it was stupid of him.

They are always on the ball, TMZ. I took them to task thinking how they could possibly up on all this stuff when they said something about Joni Mitchell once, they were bang on, as usual.

My best friend's dad got his first DUI at 72. After that he was so embarrassed he even stopped drinking. Point is, I don't put Bruce on a pedestal that way and it happens all the time. Not excusing him or anyone who does it, it's just that he is the human people project him not to be.

Reliable source? Really hope this isn’t true.

Oh no! He's definitely fallen off his pedestal. Was he driving a Jeep?.

Actually really pisses me off when people drive under the influence, especially when they have more than enough money to pay someone else to drive.

I guess the reactions on other forums to this are a testament to how unique he's been over the years in regards to stuff like this compared to his peers and those who came before/after. Had Keith Moon done this in 1965 or Liam Gallagher done it tomorrow, there'd be the whole 'boys will be boys'/'what do you expect from a rock star?' reaction. When it comes to Bruce, the "well he is a rock star" thing that I posted over on BTX honestly just doesn't cut the mustard, so to speak.

His standards have been higher, so this is a massive balls up. It's one that he'll have his people easily sort out, but it's more detrimental than a fuckin' Jeep advert.

Hopefully this was more of a one-off mistake than a potential mental health alarm that someone alluded to on the Reddit. The lack of touring could be having it's serious drawbacks for him now.