Gary Coleman, shown here on the left…
…allegedly ran a in to a guy with his truck after a Utah, bowling alley argument over not wanting his picture taken. From Breitbart/AP.
Payson police Lt. Bill Wright said Colt Rushton and Coleman got into an argument in the early morning hours Saturday over pictures Rushton had taken of Coleman inside the bowling alley. He said the argument continued outside, and that Coleman hit Rushton and a car as he was backing out of a parking space.
Wow! Do you think Gary Coleman hit the guy on purpose?
Neither man was issued a citation, and Wright said it wasn’t clear whether Coleman hit Rushton on purpose. He said neither man was giving authorities much information.
That means he did it on purpose.
Gee, I wonder if they were drinking.
Wright told The Salt Lake Tribune there are “indications” that alcohol was a factor in the accident. He was unavailable for comment Sunday.
Folks, if you are in a bowling alley, in Utah and, you happen to see Gary Coleman there getting his drink on it’s clearly not the time to bust out the camera to get some candid, partying at the bowling alley shots for your MySpace page. Everybody deserves a little privacy and it’s no different with big celebrities. Don’t mess with Gary Coleman. I know it’s tempting, when you are at the lanes and, when you see a big A-List Star like Gary Coleman getting a bag on, getting pissed as a potter, to want to capture the moment for posterity. But, if you do, you are going to get run over; it’s that simple. You are going to be out in the parking lot and Gary Coleman is going to get in his truck and run you down.
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Pat Darnell and Friends wrote,
Hey guess who I saw at the bowling alley last night?
Who?
Gary Coleman !!
Outta’ sight, Levon; Was he with that thirty foot tall blond with the enormous breasts… and doing his famous dive off them into the ashtrays? I swear that guy is the Dive King of the world…
No. He was drinking a lot and shadow boxing Jack LaLane, and then he would somehow show up standing down by the pins. Bowlers couldn’t tell when he was down there, and they just kept on playing. One gal rolled her special Storm Soccer Ball, used for bowling. The appearance of which may be very deceiving as it looks as much a soccer ball as a bowling ball… It is made of a high quality ultra-clear polyester wrapped around the core of a soccer ball which gives it the under glass look. For a while, it would make you wonder whether you are going to roll or kick it.
No kidding !?
So, Gary Coleman kicked it as it approached him near the pins in lane eight. The Storm Soccer Ball spun into the gutter like a tornado, hopped out and finished the seven / ten split for a spare that the young woman was working in her tenth frame. As you and I Utah-sians know any imbalance will effect a ball within the parameters of the many outside influences, right? And the petite, but tawny ball-handler, gal threw hard, and had a decent rev rate, a typical axis tilt and rotation, and lane eight is drier at the pocket, with the maximum top weight in a drilled ball of 3 ounces, might have been the cause of this ball to skid a little further and to hook violently.
So did it hurt?
Personally, I have had good luck with particle pearl balls which have smooth covers to manage the oily front part of a lane but also have small particles or light loads which allow the balls to transition differently than a pearl reactive ball.
Not the ball, Levon, did Gary Coleman get hurt?
Yes, when he kicked it he squeaked, and fell headlong into the pin sweep. Some teenagers ran down the gutter walls and retrieved him, and laid him out on the floor back by the coke machines. That’s when a guy who is a reporter for Bowling Writers Association of America (BWAA) came up with his antique Browning Sure Shot and started taking high speed Tri-X Pan Professional 400 black and whites pictures of the actor splayed there on the linoleum. He was using ambient light from the vending machines to capture the tribulations of the smallish black actor… Coleman came to, got into heated drunken brawl with the photographer.. and the rest you can read in Pribek.net’s column this morning.
That’s it?
Well… on the way out the little gal who accidentally bowled him over tried to shake Coleman’s hand, and give him some of her winnings… fearing litigations, I suppose… all he said to her: “Hi there little gurl; now remember to tell all your friends — don’t drink and drive!”
Link | September 8th, 2008 at 3:14 am
Pribek wrote,
I knew there was a happy ending in there somewhere.
Link | September 8th, 2008 at 7:44 am