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Ohio man blames Ozzy Osbourne for traffic arrest

Thu Dec 30, 2010 4:53 PM EST
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CLEVELAND — An Ohio drunken-driving suspect is blaming his arrest on Ozzy Osbourne. William Liston was arrested Christmas Eve in suburban Cleveland. WJW-TV says he told police officers, "Ozzy Osbourne and his music made me do it."

Osbourne's hits as lead singer of heavy metal band Black Sabbath and as a solo artist include "Paranoid" and "Road to Nowhere."

Liston is awaiting arraignment. He's to appear in court Tuesday on a charge of operating a vehicle while impaired.

In an unrelated case, Liston pleaded not guilty Thursday in Cuyahoga (ky-uh-HOH'-guh) County Common Pleas Court in a November break-in at a medical office. He was released on bond.

Telephone calls to the 33-year-old Liston's home in Aurora have gone unanswered.

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Information from: WJW-TV, http://www.fox8.com

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SW Missouri Mule

That's not as bad as "the music is telling our kids to kill themselves."

Suicide Solution
Ozzy Osbourne – Blizzard of Ozz – 1980

Wine is fine but whiskeys quicker
Suicide is slow with liquor
Take a bottle and drown your sorrows
Then it floods away tomorrows

  • 4 votes
Reply#1 - Thu Dec 30, 2010 6:44 PM EST
ruthlessmoose

It's all those hidden subliminal messages lol

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Reply#2 - Thu Dec 30, 2010 6:53 PM EST
tzia62

When will people learn to take responsibility for their action's ?That's a real lame excuse.

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Reply#3 - Thu Dec 30, 2010 7:22 PM EST
SW Missouri Mule

Maybe he wasn't playing it loud enough.

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#3.1 - Thu Dec 30, 2010 7:39 PM EST
jeremy-17

When will people learn to take responsibility for their action's ?That's a real lame excuse.

The religious have been doing it for centuries. It's pathetic for all of them.

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#3.2 - Fri Dec 31, 2010 11:47 AM EST
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Jim420

now he can listen to johnny cash,.. folsom prison blues..

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Reply#4 - Thu Dec 30, 2010 7:37 PM EST
tzia62

Or , "Jail House Rock"

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#4.1 - Thu Dec 30, 2010 8:12 PM EST
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smellsofpoo

After he goes to jail, then he can sing joplins cry cry baby......

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Reply#5 - Thu Dec 30, 2010 9:07 PM EST
Sydney - 5

Did he get around to mentioning which aging rocker had caused him to break into the medical office last month? Or was it that darned old Ozzy again? :)

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Reply#6 - Thu Dec 30, 2010 9:15 PM EST
SW Missouri Mule

Ozzy is straight and sobor now. Maybe it was Keith Richards.

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#6.1 - Thu Dec 30, 2010 10:08 PM EST
Sydney - 5

That's a very good point!....Yeah, Keith Richards! That bum! He ruins everything!!!

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#6.2 - Thu Dec 30, 2010 11:05 PM EST
4AWord

It was Keith's fall from atop a coconut tree that changed him.

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#6.3 - Sat Jan 1, 2011 4:05 AM EST
SW Missouri Mule

I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts. Usually it's a coconut that falls from the tree and conks you on the head. With Keith I can see him falling. WTF was he doing up there?

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#6.4 - Sat Jan 1, 2011 4:15 AM EST
Dennis P McCann

WTF was he doing up there?

He's Keith Richards. For the last 60 years, people have been asking "WTF is he doing up there?"

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#6.5 - Sat Jan 1, 2011 7:29 AM EST
Sydney - 5

For the last 60 years, people have been asking "WTF is he doing up there?"

True. Except for when they've asked, "WTF is he doing down there?"

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#6.6 - Sat Jan 1, 2011 8:20 PM EST
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Aminal

*ding!* Coo~coo.

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Reply#7 - Thu Dec 30, 2010 11:00 PM EST
DEATHNELL J.

"It's" Ozzie's fault!! The beginning of a new era!

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Reply#8 - Fri Dec 31, 2010 1:19 AM EST
gmross

Ozzy got his license back. I heard it on the Graham Norton Show, from Ozzy.

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#8.1 - Fri Dec 31, 2010 1:24 AM EST
tzia62

Dom you mean to say that Ozzy got his Drivers License back?? UH OH!! :)

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#8.2 - Fri Dec 31, 2010 7:46 PM EST
gmross

Yeah, Ozzy announced it on the Graham Norton show on BBC America last year.

    #8.3 - Mon Jan 3, 2011 11:52 PM EST
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    smellsofpoo

    OH CRAP; If ozzy got his license back there is gonna be trouble in the streets. Just try to understand him talking is one thing.....Driving??? That's scary.

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    Reply#10 - Fri Dec 31, 2010 8:04 PM EST
    tzia62

    That;s what I'm talking about. He doesn't have too many brain cells left, but I watched his show a few years ago, and couldn't' help but kind of like him. Like they say in the South, "He kain 't hep it"

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    #10.1 - Fri Dec 31, 2010 9:47 PM EST
    SW Missouri Mule

    There is a lot more going on in that brain than you think. Listen to his recent stuff.

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    #10.2 - Fri Dec 31, 2010 10:15 PM EST
    Sydney - 5

    He's started doing an advice column for Rolling Stone. I actually saw it the other day. It's really, really there. But that didn't stop me from coming home and Googling it to make sure I wasn't hallucinating. :)

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    #10.3 - Sun Jan 2, 2011 2:08 AM EST
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    jwc2blue

    Telephone calls to the 33-year-old Liston's home in Aurora have gone unanswered..

    Probably has the music cranked up too loud to hear the phone!!

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    Reply#11 - Sat Jan 1, 2011 9:45 AM EST
    DarthVSchw

    So I can blame all my failures in life on Ozzy? Ha! NOT! Sorry he doesn't live my life for me....

    • 1 vote
    Reply#12 - Sat Jan 1, 2011 11:36 AM EST
    Stone5150

    Why do people blame heavy metal, rock and/or rap for bad stuff? They tell you that things suck in the songs, when stuff does end up sucking you can't say it is their fault. The ones who should get blamed are people like Pat Boone and all the other gospel people for telling you things are great in their songs.

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    Reply#13 - Sat Jan 1, 2011 1:42 PM EST
    SW Missouri Mule

    Amen to that, Stone. lol

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    #13.1 - Sat Jan 1, 2011 3:40 PM EST
    jeremy-17

    Why do people blame heavy metal, rock and/or rap for bad stuff?

    Because they won't take personal responsibility. This is what our society has come to. Pretty pathetic.

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    #13.2 - Sat Jan 1, 2011 7:18 PM EST
    Stone5150

    I just choked a little on a cheesy poof, I blame Three Stooges because that is what was on TV when it happened.

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    #13.3 - Sat Jan 1, 2011 7:22 PM EST
    jeremy-17

    I blame Three Stooges because that is what was on TV when it happened.

    Or just have the dog drive like on Family Guy.

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    #13.4 - Sat Jan 1, 2011 7:34 PM EST
    Dennis P McCann

    Why do people blame heavy metal, rock and/or rap for bad stuff?

    Beats me. Everybody knows the real cause is Country.

    • 5 votes
    #13.5 - Sat Jan 1, 2011 10:06 PM EST
    Sydney - 5

    Garth Brooks. Who knows what's really under that hat? :)

    • 2 votes
    #13.6 - Sun Jan 2, 2011 2:13 AM EST
    Dennis P McCann

    Pure evil?

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    #13.7 - Sun Jan 2, 2011 7:32 AM EST
    Stone5150

    He has multiple personalities (remember Chris Gaines?), so evil isn't much of a stretch at all.

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    #13.8 - Sun Jan 2, 2011 7:54 AM EST
    DarthVSchw

    Personally I think it's Captain and Tenille that are to blame.

    • 1 vote
    #13.9 - Mon Jan 3, 2011 5:22 PM EST
    Stone5150

    Mama says The Temptations are the devil

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    #13.10 - Mon Jan 3, 2011 6:37 PM EST
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    Gypsywych

    From just the article title(not knowing it was a drunk driving charge) I totally got it. "Shot in the Dark" somehow makes my lead foot come out. That song comes on, and I'm suddenly doing 85..... don't ask me why. Maybe it's my own singing I'm trying to get away from.

      Reply#14 - Mon Jan 3, 2011 5:12 PM EST
      DarthVSchw

      Maybe next time set your cruise control.... if ya have one. If the radio is loud enough you'll sound as good as Ozzy...

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      #14.1 - Mon Jan 3, 2011 5:32 PM EST
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