I have been rooting for this guy to win all season. A lead singer from a rock’n’roll bar cover band? Long hair? Age 28? As an American Idol? Damn right, I love the idea. Now I love the idea even more:
Bo Bice completed drug diversion program after two Alabama busts
APRIL 28–One of the five remaining “American Idol” finalists was once arrested for felony cocaine possession, but had the charge–and a separate marijuana count–dismissed last year after completing a so-called “diversion program,” The Smoking Gun has learned.
Harold “Bo” Bice, 29, was busted in June 2001 by Huntsville, Alabama cops and hit with the drug count, a Class C felony, according to the below warrant. He was arrested again in July 2003 near Birmingham and charged with marijuana possession, public intoxication, and possession of drug paraphernalia, according to court records. He pleaded guilty to the latter two misdemeanors in December 2004.
The pot charge was dismissed after Bice’s successful completion of the same diversion program that covered his prior cocaine bust. In that 2001 case, a District Court preliminary hearing was set for August 29, but when a Huntsville Police Department investigator did not show [ah ha ha ha!], Judge Susan Moquin dismissed the Bice case, according to a court docket. But with prosecutors prepared to refile the felony count, Bice later opted to enter a drug diversion program overseen by the district attorney’s office, according to Heather Douglas, spokesperson for the Madison County D.A..
Yes, a hard-partying long-haired rocker Idol. The anti-Clay Aiken. And also a testament to the fact that past drug use doesn’t mean you can’t succeed in life. Now with Scott “Chubb McSquinty” Savol gone, there’s only Anthony “Tracheotomy Boy” Federov left to fall by the wayside. Ugh! I hate Tracheotomy Boy! For him to survive when far superior talents like Anwar “Superlocs” Robinson, Nadia “Superfro” Turner, and Constantine “Look into my eyes!” Maroulis have been voted off is a testament to the power of thirteen-year-old girls with telephones.
OK, sure, dis me for enjoying a superficial reality show. But I’m here to say that “Idol” is no “Survivor” or “Apprentice”. I hate those reality shows because they are not real. When you have an accountant on an island eating bugs to win a ridiculous contest, or a financial analyst in a bikini hawking ice cream on the streets of Manhattan, that’s not reality, it’s fraternity hazing and Junior Achievement for adults on TV. “Idol” is a talent competition. It features singers who are singing to get a singing career. No phony contests, immunity challenges, hokey scnearios, or other rubbish. Singing, criticism, voting. Real.
