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Pull Over - 28 Jul 2007 16:03 GMT

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Inside LiLo's crazy ride from hell

She pins blame after stop on 'the black kid'

BY TRACY CONNOR
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Saturday, July 28th 2007, 4:00 AM

Lindsay Lohan hijacked an SUV from a near-stranger, took it on a
100-mph chase with three men inside, and then had the nerve to tell
cops, "The black kid was driving."

That's the shocking account given by the SUV's passengers who are
surprised they survived the white-knuckle ride from Malibu to Santa
Monica that ended with the star's arrest on drunken-driving and drug
possession charges.

"I was honestly terrified," Dante Nigro, owner of the GMC Denali, told
the entertainment news site TMZ.com yesterday.

"That was the craziest car ride I've ever been in, and she didn't
care," said Nigro's pal Jakon Sutter. "She just kept going...like we
were joyriding in a parking lot."

The young men say the fresh-from-rehab Lohan was crazed with rage and
drunk on fame - not to mention the cocktails and shots they say she
downed before the wild episode.

"I can't get in trouble - I'm a celebrity," Lohan allegedly bragged as
the young men pleaded with her to stop the car. "I can do whatever the
f--- I want."

Their paths crossed with Lohan's because Nigro, 20, is a friend of
Tarin Graham, who was the "Mean Girls" star's assistant.

Nigro was invited to a Malibu party by Lohan on Monday and brought
along buddies Sutter and Ronnie Blake, who waited outside in the
Denali.

An argument between Graham and her boyfriend erupted and spilled onto
the street, and Lohan eventually inserted herself into the dispute.

After Graham quit her job and left in her car, Lohan allegedly reached
through the window of the Denali, grabbed the keys, jumped into the
empty driver's seat and took off - with Blake and Sutter in back and
Nigro riding shotgun.

"I jump out of the car as she's just about to start accelerate," Blake
said. "She runs over my foot...and she didn't stop."

"That's right when I go to try and grab the wheel and get her to
stop," Nigro said. "That's when she's like, 'If you touch me, I'll sue
you.'"

Lohan pursued Graham's Tahoe down the Pacific Coast Highway at 100
mph, pulling several U-turns - but the assistant managed to elude her,
the men said.

So the actress headed for Graham's house in Santa Monica, blowing stop
signs and red lights and nearly causing a head-on collision, they
said.

When they got to the house, Graham's mother, Michelle Peck, was
pulling up in a Cadillac Escalade, and Lohan gunned it again - forcing
Peck to flee in reverse. When Nigro and Sutter begged her to slow
down, she said, "I can do whatever I want. Wanna see?" and sped up,
they said. Peck, who was on the phone to 911 and didn't realize Lohan
was driving, eventually pulled into a parking lot near the police
station. Lohan jumped out to confront her.

That's when cops showed up - and Lohan allegedly tried to weasel out
of trouble by claiming Sutter was behind the wheel.

"We can hear her saying, 'No, I wasn't driving, the black kid was
driving,'" Nigro said.

"She starts yelling to me, 'Tell him I didn't do anything,'" Sutter
added.

But cops smelled booze on Lohan's breath, and after she flunked a
sobriety test, they busted her. They said they also found cocaine in
her pocket.

A lawyer for Nigro, Sutter and Blake said they are considering legal
action against Lohan.

In her only statement since the arrest, Lohan claimed she's
"innocent."

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Scott en Aztlán - 28 Jul 2007 19:16 GMT

Pull Over <ma'am.you.need@to.pull.over.now> said in rec.autos.driving:

>"I can't get in trouble - I'm a celebrity," Lohan allegedly bragged as
>the young men pleaded with her to stop the car. "I can do whatever the
>f--- I want."

Sounds like somebody has an axe to grind.

>After Graham quit her job and left in her car, Lohan allegedly reached
>through the window of the Denali, grabbed the keys, jumped into the
>empty driver's seat and took off - with Blake and Sutter in back and
>Nigro riding shotgun.

Stop right there for a second. Try and visualize what LiLo (where's
Stitch?) did according to this description. Here is this SUV, just
sitting there, with the keys in the ignition, the driver's seat is
empty, the owner is sitting in the front passenger seat, and there are
two other people sitting in the back seat.

A question for those of you who own cars: have YOU ever parked your
vehicle like that? What were you doing at the time that made this
scenario make any sense whatsoever?

Then there's the bit about Lohan reaching in and taking the keys out
of the ignition. She obviously didn't reach through the front
passenger side window, as unless she is an orangutan her arms aren't
long enough to reach the ignition from that side. So she must have
reached through the driver's side window, taken the keys out of the
ignition, opened the driver's side door, gotten inside, put the keys
BACK into the ignition, started it up, and drove off.

Again, the alleged scenario makes absolutely no sense. Anybody in that
situation would have simply opened the door, gotten in, started it up,
and driven off - there would have been no shenanigans with the car
keys.

I'd say Nigro and his buddies have some serious credibility issues. My
theory is that Nigro gave LiLo permission to drive his SUV and, after
things got out of hand, decided to try a coverup.

>That's when cops showed up - and Lohan allegedly tried to weasel out
>of trouble by claiming Sutter was behind the wheel.

Another credible story. Perhaps LiLo can explain why would the owner
of the SUV allow one of his buddies to drive when he was right there
in the vehicle? That's about as likely a story as LiLo wearing someone
else's pants that just happened to have cocaine in the pocket.

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Traditional Spaghetti Breakfast - 28 Jul 2007 20:06 GMT

On Jul 28, 11:16 am, Scott en Aztl?n <scottenazt...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Pull Over <ma'am.you.n...@to.pull.over.now> said in rec.autos.driving:
>
[quoted text clipped - 14 lines]
> empty, the owner is sitting in the front passenger seat, and there are
> two other people sitting in the back seat.

Um - yes. Many, many times. In California, we sort of live in our
cars - and we bump our music. You leave the keys in the ignition to
keep the music going - but you don't just sit in the car. One gets
out of it for many reasons - often to interact with others. And
depending on where the others are, one might sit in the passenger's
side instead - I do it all the time at the beach - it's more
comfortable to sit in the passenger side with the seat way back.

> A question for those of you who own cars: have YOU ever parked your
> vehicle like that? What were you doing at the time that made this
> scenario make any sense whatsoever?

See above - I do it ALL the time - at the beach and at other times
when a social event is taking place outside of a house as well as
inside it. I HATE crowds, I like being in my own car.

> Then there's the bit about Lohan reaching in and taking the keys out
> of the ignition. She obviously didn't reach through the front
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> ignition, opened the driver's side door, gotten inside, put the keys
> BACK into the ignition, started it up, and drove off.

Yes - I imagine that's exactly what she did. I'd never expect anyone
to do something like that (unless they were very very drunk) and I've
never seen it happen before.

> Again, the alleged scenario makes absolutely no sense. Anybody in that
> situation would have simply opened the door, gotten in, started it up,
> and driven off - there would have been no shenanigans with the car
> keys.

Not if they were incredibly drunk and high - perhaps planning to issue
a few more edicts and bonnes mots before they hit the road - treating
the car, essentially, as if it were already theirs and perhaps, even,
wanting to control the local soundtrack. My daughters have done this
to each other repeatedly, usually in tiffs over music. But no one has
ever driven off in someone else's car at our house - but it has
happened at parties my daughters have been to, indeed, my daughter
ended up being in a car that was reported stolen under just these
circumstances - fortunately, the driver had not been drinking - but
wanted to leave a party where the car's owner *was* drinking and so
simply took their car by jumping in and driving off - going to another
location and behaving as if the car were his own.

> I'd say Nigro and his buddies have some serious credibility issues. My
> theory is that Nigro gave LiLo permission to drive his SUV and, after
> things got out of hand, decided to try a coverup.

We'll see. It sure sounds like NOT.

> >That's when cops showed up - and Lohan allegedly tried to weasel out
> >of trouble by claiming Sutter was behind the wheel.
>
> Another credible story.

Yes - you're right, VERY credible.

Perhaps LiLo can explain why would the owner

> of the SUV allow one of his buddies to drive when he was right there
> in the vehicle? That's about as likely a story as LiLo wearing someone
> else's pants that just happened to have cocaine in the pocket.
> --

Designated driver? Again - my daughters (who rarely drink) are often
driving other people's cars in between party locations here in SoCal.
That would be because, when people drink and do drugs like Lohan did,
they drive really really crazy. This starts early in the evening. My
daughters don't like driving their own cars to parties in the first
place (lots of fender benders and there's the liability thing, too) -
but their friends trust them, because they are good drivers and
they've been taught since high school to have designated drivers.

Kids here party through the summer - and while my daughters have grown
out of the party scene (one of them is still into it once a week or
so), the kids in the neighborhood have not. Two nights ago, they were
taking turns driving one person's car in circles in our nearest
intersection, hanging out the passenger and driver's windows, playing
a game where they picked up tall containers of beer from the street
and swigged them and set them back down again for the next person to
grab. They were also playing chicken with the same car - jumping in
front of it and jumping back, to add to the excitement of the beer-
swigging game. This goes on in every neighborhood around here ( I
live about 15 miles from Malibu - and I've seen the early evening
beginnings of the same kinds of parties many, many times - beach towns
are like that). The parents of the kids were at home, btw - and while
we called the police, it wasn't a high priority and the game was long
over when the cops did a cruise-by about two hours later.

Where, actually, do YOU live that you're so certain things like this
don't happen? And - when kids get caught - they readily lie about
whose fault things are, and some DO set up other people to take the
fall for them - or to say they were driving when they weren't. Spend
a weekend at our county jail listening to kids and parents sort things
out and you'll learn quite a bit.

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Eeyore - 28 Jul 2007 21:54 GMT

> In California, we sort of live in our
> cars - and we bump our music. You leave the keys in the ignition to
> keep the music going

I despair at the thought of ppl being so dim they don't know how to wire their ICE to
work with the ignition off ! Probably the types that like to" bump our music " whatever
that means.

Graham

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Scott en Aztlán - 28 Jul 2007 23:53 GMT

Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations@hotmail.com> said in
rec.autos.driving:

>> In California, we sort of live in our
>> cars - and we bump our music. You leave the keys in the ignition to
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
>work with the ignition off ! Probably the types that like to" bump our music " whatever
>that means.

I suspect it means "crank up the volume so loud that the walls of
every building within a half-mile radius goes 'bump... bump...
bump..."

In those cases, it's a bit of poetic justice when someone who likes to
"bump their music" gets their car stolen. Just a little bit of Karma
for all the annoyance they cause by blasting their obscenity-laden
hip-hop "music" so loud it rattles every window in the neighborhood.

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The Man Behind The Curtain - 29 Jul 2007 18:51 GMT

> In California, we sort of live in our
> cars

Ah, I have a *house,* gracias.

> - and we bump our music.

Oh, so you're the kind of people who annoy the sh.t out of me so bad I
have fantasies about shooting out the tinted windows of your cars with
my assault rifle? I often wonder why cops ticket speeders but they seem
blind (or deaf would be a better word) to noise-polluters.
Municipalities are trying to raise revenue, they should ticket all the
BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-BOOM cars they come across. They'd raise more money than
with speeders.

> You leave the keys in the ignition to
> keep the music going - but you don't just sit in the car. One gets
> out of it for many reasons

Pee out that Corina into the bushes?

> - often to interact with others.

...With knives, guns...

> And
> depending on where the others are, one might sit in the passenger's
> side instead

Easier to get the pants unzipped.

- I do it all the time at the beach - it's more

> comfortable to sit in the passenger side with the seat way back.

Ahi tiene usted su casa...

John

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gpsman - 29 Jul 2007 05:40 GMT

On Jul 28, 10:03 am, Pull Over <ma'am.you.n...@to.pull.over.now>
wrote:

> http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2007/07/28/2007-07-28_inside_lilos_...
>
> Lohan pursued Graham's Tahoe down the Pacific Coast Highway at 100
> mph, pulling several U-turns - but the assistant managed to elude her,
> the men said.

WTF has Graham got under the hood of that Tahoe, and why is he
"eluding" some young girl...? Could it be, Graham is as stupid as his
pursuer?

Park, get out, walk away, "problem" solved. You can't chase a
stationary object, at least not at 100 mph.
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- gpsman

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