Runners-up “Dietrich” (Enzo Ferrari crash), Daryl Strawberry and actor Owen Wilson do crazy things, which alcoholism explains.
Runners-up for top story of the month:
Trevor Michael Karney, who may prove to be the mysterious “Dietrich” reportedly in the passenger seat of a $1-million Ferrari Enzo that spectacularly crashed on February 21, 2006 and was runner-up and antic-of-the-month in the March 2006 issue of the Addiction Report http://preventragedy.com/pages/TAR/019.mar06.html. Karney was arrested on charges of DUI, resisting arrest and giving false information to a police officer. After the crash, in which former head of the now defunct video game company Gizmundo, Bo Stefan Eriksson, was at the wheel, Karney reportedly fled the scene. The DUI is unrelated to the Ferrari incident, but we might surmise that being a willing passenger in a vehicle driven at 162 mph at 6 a.m. while reportedly videotaping indicates he was under the influence then as well. Police encountered him at the scene of the crash, but he told officers he was traveling in another vehicle. Did we really need more proof that alcoholics can sell anyone anything?
Former baseball great and 1983 Rookie of the Year Daryl Strawberry, sued by the government for almost a half million dollars in unpaid taxes stemming from an indictment in 1994 for failing to report hundreds of thousands of dollars of income from autographs and memorabilia. The eight-time All-Star great served 11 months in prison in 2002-2003 on charges of violating probation on cocaine possession charges. There was no report as to whether any of the taxes had been repaid or official explanation as to why the lawsuit was filed so long after the indictment, to which Strawberry pleaded guilty the following year. However–and the Enrolled Agent in me is compelled to share what may be hopelessly boring–since he was originally ordered to repay $350,000 in tax and the accumulated debt would now total something north of $1.5 million, we can safely say that Strawberry has kept pace with most of the interest and penalties. Also, he may have been on a payment plan and perhaps the government wanted to protect its interest due to the possibility of an expiring statute of limitations.
Actor Owen Wilson, surviving an apparent suicide attempt after ingesting a half bottle of sleeping pills and slitting his wrists. The blond comedic actor with the distinctive nose reportedly has been “outwardly rude and awful” to girlfriend Kate Hudson, with whom he has had an on-again off-again relationship typical of many addicts. The 38-year-old co-star of Jackie Chan’s “Shanghai Noon” and “Shanghai Nights,” and star of the more recent “Wedding Crashers” and “You, Me and Dupree” was not on my radar. His brother actor Luke Wilson (“My Super Ex-Girlfriend” and “The Royal Tenenbaums,” the latter of which he co-starred with Owen, who also co-wrote the script) wasn’t under watch either, until I learned he made life for others unpleasant by arriving hung over, being late to and making diva-like demands on the set of “Vacancy”. It appears alcoholism runs in your family, Owen and Luke. I’ll say the same thing I said (http://www.preventragedy.com/pages/TAR/018.feb06.html) in regards to reports of Kiefer Sutherland’s carousing: please, someone, step up to the plate and intervene in the lives of these wonderful actors, before it’s too late.