To be an effective country and western singer you need to be in possession of three basic character traits: 1) a bulletproof love of America, 2) a fondness for stupidly long pun-filled song-titles and 3) the ability to act like a pikey at a JB Sports closing-down sale.

Take Mindy McCready for example. Sure, Mindy McCready may have had number one singles and multi-platinum albums – but that’s not going to stop her from getting arrested for beating someone up. Mindy McCready was arrested in Florida this weekend for battery and resisting arrest and has been bailed and ordered to return to court next month. Although the sheriff’s department has chosen not to give out the details of Mindy McCready’s arrest, we’d guess that Mindy McCready probably hit a cowboy after a moonshine-fuelled game of Horseshoes was interrupted by his CB radio blaring out choice quotes from the Smokey And The Bandit movies. We’ve pieced together this scenario because Mindy McCready is a country singer, and we’re pretty sure that’s all they do. Could be wrong, though.