Tiger Woods in Hospital (Page 2)

Pector55 - 2009-11-29 12:40 AM As a golfer as experienced as Tiger, you would think that he would know something horribly bad would happen if he played the wrong hole.  Geesh!

StMaas - 2009-11-29 10:15 AM Under FL law, he's not required to give anything besides license, registration and proof of insurance.  Why is the State Patrol investigtating a local traffic incident anyway? He wasn't on a highway.
The spousal beat-down-with-a-golf-club story is intruiging, but would require a witness at 2:25a.m.  And, once we stop to consider...if she's chasing him, she'd be behind him, so I'd expect the result to be lacerations and contusions on the skull, arms and torso.  Unless she's got a wicked slice 

OldAg92 - 2009-11-28 12:56 PM

Heh...new reports indicate he and his wife were fighting, she caused his facial lacerations, and as he was leaving she chased him down the driveway and smashed out the back window of the Escalade with a golf club, causing him to be distracted and run over the fire hydrant. 

None of this is confirmed yet, but it sounds more plausible than "just having an accident" at 2:25 a.m. and your wife smashing the back wondow and dragging you out of the Escalade on her own to try and rescue you. 

DerekL - 2009-11-28 9:49 AM

Incorrect. 

ScoopJackson - 2009-11-29 6:16 PM

Actually he is correct.

"Woods was transported to Health Central Hospital in Ocoee in serious condition, FHP said.

Woods was treated at Health Central on Friday and released.

FHP spokesman Jorge Delahoz said patients' conditions are always classified as "serious" if they are transported to a hospital."

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/237/story/1079445.html

DerekL - 2009-11-29 7:46 PM

Hi.  I'm a physician who works in a hospital and gives out those statuses.  They are both incorrect.

ScoopJackson - 2009-11-29 8:03 PM

Do you work at this particular hospital? If not, is it possible that this hospital follows a different protocol?

Magnum27 - 2009-11-30 9:29 AM Amazing that the police said they had no probable cause to give him a breathalyzer or blood or urine test.

HUH - if I ran into a fire hydrant & a tree at 2:25AM I think that is the first thing they would do. I think that sums up probable cause.


Celebrities really get a pass on stuff like this.

Leegoocrap - 2009-11-30 9:47 AM

hell if I was saw OUT at 2:25 am the cops around my area would pull me over and make up some probable cause.

Magnum27 - 2009-11-30 8:29 AM Amazing that the police said they had no probable cause to give him a breathalyzer or blood or urine test.

HUH - if I ran into a fire hydrant & a tree at 2:25AM I think that is the first thing they would do. I think that sums up probable cause.


Celebrities really get a pass on stuff like this.

DerekL - 2009-11-30 9:10 AM

He was transported to the hospital before the police got there.

Magnum27 - 2009-11-30 9:15 AM

Police take blood & urine tests at the hospital ALL the time.

ditchdoc - 2009-11-27 9:50 PM UPDATE: It was the Auburn TIGERS that crashed tonight. The "fireplug" was actually Alabama running back Trent Richardson.

DerekL - 2009-11-30 9:35 AM

So tell me again what probable cause they would have to forcibly draw blood from a nonconsenting patient?  A minor traffic accident?  Good luck trying to do that to one of my patients.  That's called assault.

DerekL - 2009-11-30 10:35 AM

So tell me again what probable cause they would have to forcibly draw blood from a nonconsenting patient?  A minor traffic accident?  Good luck trying to do that to one of my patients.  That's called assault.

DerekL - 2009-11-30 10:35 AM



So tell me again what probable cause they would have to forcibly draw blood from a nonconsenting patient?  A minor traffic accident?  Good luck trying to do that to one of my patients.  That's called assault.

Meerkat Surprise - 2009-11-30 11:54 AM

Not a lawyer, but if you read FS 316.1932, anyone who holds a Florida driver's license, has already consented to breath, urine and blood tests.

However, it applies only if you are arrested for suspicion of DUI. A 1-vehicle crash on a residential street in the middle of the night with an illogical story to explain why it happened seems like a good enough suspicion for an arrest for me.

pitt83 - 2009-11-30 12:01 PMI crashed my bike during a triathlon and, even with wearing jammers, cleats and a helmet and big numbers written on my leg and shoulder, they ran an alcohol screen. They had taken blood numerous times for other vitals, but indeed tested me for intox. I never directly consented to this, but probably did when my wife signed the other permission to be traeted forms.

DerekL - 2009-11-30 1:30 PM You consented to a blood draw. Big difference.

Meerkat Surprise - 2009-11-30 1:09 PM

Sarcasm? Absolutely not. If Billy-Bob redneck crashes his truck through my yard at 2:30AM on a holiday weekend and is semi-conscious (at this point we don't know if it is as a result of the crash or he was that way beforehand), the police had damn well better be arresting him for suspiscion of DUI and administering the tests. Especially if he starts giving an illogical story of how/why the accident happened. I think there's 0% chance that the police say "OK, go to the hospital, and we'll talk to you when/if it's convenient for you and totally on your timetable."