There's a lesson to be learnt from Snoop Dogg; if you drive around in a car stuffed with drugs and guns, don't get caught – and if you do get caught, don't do the exact same thing a month later because that just makes you look like a bit of a spaz.
Snoop Dogg was yesterday charged with two felony counts of transporting marijuana and possession of a firearm by a felon, stemming from some of the instances last year where he got arrested about a jillion times within the space of a couple of months. And because Snoop Dogg seems worryingly unable to stop getting arrested for basically the same thing time and time again, these charges mean that Snoop is now looking at a sentence of up to four years in jail or, for those fluent in Snoop talk, a sentizzle of up to fozizzle yezizzle in jizzail.
Not so long ago Snoop Dogg was denied entry to Britain after he threw a tantrum in Heathrow airport that left seven policemen injured. Snoop Dogg was appalled by this refusal and said at the time:
"I can't control my drugs and gang-banging past. People can see that I now have a different identity and that I've changed my lifestyle around completely. We let the Beatles in the USA so please let me in here."
While we'll happily give full credit to Snoop Dogg for apparently curbing his unfortunate gang-banging affliction, we might have to pick him up on the whole 'turning his lifestyle around completely' bit. Because Snoop Dogg, well, hasn't. As well as being banned from Britain, Snoop Dogg was recently arrested in Sweden for drug offences, arrested and charged with trying to take a giant beating stick onto a plane, arrested for having a car full of drugs and guns and arrested for having a car full of drugs and guns again.
And it's those last two arrests – both in Burbank, both within a month of each other – that Snoop Dogg must be most worried about at the moment, since they're the ones he's just been charged with. E! Online reports:
If convicted on the felony counts, Snoop, whose real name is Calvin Broadus, is facing up to four years in prison. The felon-in-possession-of-a-firearm caveat comes from Snoop's conviction in 1990 for cocaine possession and a 1993 guilty plea for illegal gun possession. So, technically, any possession of a firearm on his part would be illegal possession.
Today Snoop Dogg will be arraigned at Pasadena Superior court for the charges and, as we've said, he faces a four-year jail sentence of he's found guilty, effectively meaning that they're be no Snoop Dogg until 2011. That's left us worried – sure, having the charges dropped would mean that people driving around with a gun in their cars would be legally acceptable; but if Snoop Dogg goes to prison, who'll be left to shout the word "motherfucker" repeatedly during a teatime appearance on a television show?
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sk8rgurl says
Get over it, what else do you expect from Snoop? Jeez, at least he’s not a bible thumping hypocrite. Smoke one for me dude.