Woods Is Just Another Privileged Rich Guy

I have been following the Tiger Woods single car motor vehicle accident with a sort of morbid fascination. Not so much that I can't wait to find out if his wife was actually using a golf club to rescue him (who breaks out the rear window of a SUV to rescue a driver in the front seat?) but instead to see if, yet again, a super wealthy celebrity gets the kind of preferential treatment that the rest of us could only fantasize about. And today, my suspicions were again confirmed. Tiger Woods doesn't think he needs to follow the same laws or procedures as the rest of us. And apparently the cops where he lives think the same thing.

First of all, anyone who is involved in a single vehicle accident in the middle of the night, then is incoherent and taken to the hospital for treatment, is presumed to be intoxicated. Ok, maybe he was texting, and then had a significant head injury to cause the altered consciousness, but it is most likely that a car accident in the wee hours of the morning is related to alcohol use. Had I been the ER doctor, I would have drawn blood for alcohol and other drugs, even if the driver denied any use. Why? Because he might be confused or amnestic and not remember using or drinking. And knowing if someone is intoxicated helps a lot in evaluating and treating them. And on the law enforcement side, any cop on the scene wants to find out if the person was driving while intoxicated. Because that's illegal. And even if the driver just hits a fire hydrant and a neighbor's tree, he could have hit a person standing next to the tree, or someone out taking a nighttime stroll. However, I have the sneaking suspicion that we will find out over the next few days that there was no blood drawn for an alcohol level. Call me paranoid, but I'm pretty sure I will be proved right.

And secondly, who on earth gets to tell the cops that questioning just isn't convenient for them right now, and gets away with that not once, not twice, but three times? Any other person involved in an accident that looked alcohol related would have had their ass hauled down to the police station for questioning immediately after they were released from the hospital. And if answering questions wasn't convenient right then, the police would have been fine waiting - while the driver sat in jail until he felt "ready".

The fact that Mr. Woods is allowed to schedule his questioning for a time that is convenient to him, or more likely to postpone that questioning indefinitely, just shows that Mr. Woods is rich enough to buy himself privileges that the rest of us can't afford. The police involved are making a mockery of our "justice is blind" legal system by allowing the rich guy to get away with behavior that would have earned the rest of us time in jail. I always thought that Tiger Woods was an honest and fair man who prioritized good sportsmanship and led by his example of good-natured competitiveness. What a disappointment to learn that he has more in common with Paris Hilton than someone like Muhammad Ali.