Tiger Woods hospitalized due to accident

[Sanchez]

This isn't about Tiger Woods I don't know about that. Regarding domestic violence in general it hinges on the injured party. I've seen a lot of cases (on Cops and such) where police were called for domestic abuse (bruises, scrapes, blood and all were evident) and had to leave without making an arrest because the injured party would not press charges. The police would be upset because they couldn't do anything unless the injured party pressed charges. I don't know. Has the law changed?

In many states (if not all) the authorities have the right - and obligation - to prosecute whether the injured party presses charges or not. There are occasions when obtaining a conviction is not possible because a victim refuses to cooperate. In cases with substantial physical evidence the testimony of the victim may not be crucial.

 

[OceanAnnie]

In many states (if not all) the authorities have the right - and obligation - to prosecute whether the injured party presses charges or not. There are occasions when obtaining a conviction is not possible because a victim refuses to cooperate. In cases with substantial physical evidence the testimony of the victim may not be crucial.

Interesting. Thanks. Learned something new. That may be a reason why they aren't talking. Who knows.

 

[Sanchez]

she must have found out the truth about the cheating rumor, chased his tail with his own 9-iron, and caused him to run like the devil.

i hope she didn't actually beat him with it, but the vision of her chasing him with it kind of made me giggle.

Woman committing violence on a man = funny. The other way around . . . not so much.

 

[ZachnElli]

In many states (if not all) the authorities have the right - and obligation - to prosecute whether the injured party presses charges or not. There are occasions when obtaining a conviction is not possible because a victim refuses to cooperate. In cases with substantial physical evidence the testimony of the victim may not be crucial.

I know my sis-in-law called the cops on an ex-boyfriend many times and never pressed charges. They couldn't do anything unless she pressed charges. He ended up breaking my niece's arm and they could finally do something because it was a child. So not all states.

 

[SaraJayne]

I don't know how credible this is, but I read where the cops are pursuing a warrant in the Wood's case.

http://www.tmz.com/

"Sources tell TMZ the Florida Highway Patrol is now focusing on obtaining a search warrant -- allowing them to seize medical records from the hospital that treated Tiger Woods -- in an attempt to determine if the wounds Woods sustained are consistent with a car accident or domestic violence.

We're told authorities believe they can show probable cause a crime was committed, a necessary step in obtaining a warrant.

One big piece of evidence showing probable cause ... sources tell us Tiger's wife, Elin Nordegren told FHP troopers she went looking for Tiger in a golf cart, came upon the accident and then used a golf club to break the window to gain entry. That's a very different story from what she first told Windemere cops shortly after the accident -- she never mentioned a golf cart. Nordegren told Windemere police she had walked out of her house, saw the crash, went back inside to get a golf club and returned to the vehicle.

TMZ has reviewed 21 photos from the scene -- no sign of any golf cart. But we just found another photo (below) from the scene, where you can see a golf cart in the foreground."


Strange. That's a whole lot of resources being used over a small event.

So what would be the charges? Is it worth all of that investigation? It was a minor incident. Even if they could prove it was a domestic issue, Tiger would have to press charges for it to have legs, and that doesn't look likely. Really strange turn of events.

ETA- It looks like maybe Tiger could turn the tables on the cops and sue them for invasion of privacy if he has stated he was to blame.

I had read that he could possibly be charged with DUI, since he was supposedly on pain meds for his recent knee surgery.

BUT, there could also be charges pending against his wife, if in fact she's the one that caused injury to her DH.

Infidelity is not illegal ~ assault is. If in fact that's what happened. But since he isn't talking, we don't know.

 

[Feralpeg]

Local news just reported that Tiger has pulled out of his foundation's charity golf event this next weekend.

They showed pictures of his car up against the tree. It looked damaged, but not all that bad. Two back windows were broken out.

An eyewitness has reported that he was dressed in a t-shirt and shorts, but was barefoot at the time of the accident. They said that when paramedics arrived, Tiger seemed to go in and out of consciousness. His wife brought out a couple of prescription drug bottles to show the paramedics.

 

[DisneyGerry]

if nothing why no talk with cops and if nothing why cancelling golf?

 

[clovergirl5]

about the whole thing....weird. The news is still all over the story. I hear about everytime I turn on local news.

 

[OceanAnnie]

about the whole thing....weird. The news is still all over the story. I hear about everytime I turn on local news.

Yeah. I know. It is strange. Lots of coverage and it doesn't seem to be dying down.

 

[mrsklamc]

if nothing why no talk with cops and if nothing why cancelling golf?

Because he doesn't want to talk about it and h doesn't have to.

 

[Robinrs]

Because he doesn't want to talk about it and h doesn't have to.

Not legally but his PR people are going to have to spin something BIG to get all the rumors and innuendo at bay.

The truth is never as interesting as the stories people make up. He might as well fess up.

 

[mrsklamc]

I honestly don't think he cares about rumors and PR and if he's really worth a billion he doesn't have to.

 

[chell]

Earlier I saw a news blurb that the security in his development are telling the people who live there when & where they can come & go. And the security took the memory card from a neighbor's camera. Now that I wouldn't go for if I lived there. If I lived there I would have just as much right to come and go as I please. And any pictures I had on my camera some rent-a-cop wouldn't have the right to come snatch from me, I don't care who they thought I had pictures of!

Sorry I don't know who had the story, I heard it at the dentist's office.

 

[lillygator]

I would be willing to be he is cancelling becuae of the damage to his face, and I would also be willing to bet his wife had something to do with that as I thought there was no sign of any blood or anything in the car.

 

[DisneyGerry]

now they got him sweating since Orange Co. is sending him a bill for the fire hydrant for $600--which actually sounds cheap for a hydrant.

 

[happygirl]

now they got him sweating since Orange Co. is sending him a bill for the fire hydrant for $600--which actually sounds cheap for a hydrant.

LOL that is probably pocket change for him

 

[Feralpeg]

Earlier I saw a news blurb that the security in his development are telling the people there when & where they can come & go. And the security took the memory card from a neighbor's camera. Now that I wouldn't go for if I lived there. If I lived there I would have just as much right to come and go as I please. And any pictures I had on my camera some rent-a-cop wouldn't have the right to come snatch from me, I don't care who they thought I had pictures of!

Sorry I don't know who had the story, I heard it at the dentist's office.

People pay an incredible amount of money to live in Isleworth so that they can have privacy. There are many celebrities living there. They expect to not have their picture taken on their own property. The rent-a-cops are there to make sure that doesn't happen.

Even the news media have not been allowed inside the gates of Isleworth. Only TMZ has managed to get pictures and an interview with a witness. They must pay well for the information they get.

The Windermere police have requested that all news media move their vehicles off the area outside the gates of Isleworth by midnight tonight. They are so many there that they are a road hazard. I've had to get past them several times in the past two days and it is a mess. I'll be glad to see them gone.

 

[mrsklamc]

The $600 kinda makes me laugh. Tiger Woods probably has $600
in his couch cushions.

 

[chell]

People pay an incredible amount of money to live in Isleworth so that they can have privacy. There are many celebrities living there. They expect to not have their picture taken on their own property. The rent-a-cops are there to make sure that doesn't happen.

Even the news media have not been allowed inside the gates of Isleworth. Only TMZ has managed to get pictures and an interview with a witness. They must pay well for the information they get.

The Windermere police have requested that all news media move their vehicles off the area outside the gates of Isleworth by midnight tonight. They are so many there that they are a road hazard. I've had to get past them several times in the past two days and it is a mess. I'll be glad to see them gone.

That I understand. But if I paid that much to live there they wouldn't tell me when I could come & go and where I could and could not go. That was what the story I heard was saying. They were telling the residents, not the media, all of this.

If a resident took pictures and is willing to sell them to media that is a whole other issue. But if I had personal pictures on there they aren't getting my card. I don't care who they are protecting, especially if I didn't have my personal pictures saved yet.

 

[mrsklamc]

Maybe part of the HOA rules is signing some kind of non disclosure agreement.