By most accounts, few makers of hair metal should have made it out of the ’80s unscathed.
Considering the amount of drugs taken, fights started, and cars crashed just among the members of Mötley Crüe, it’s remarkable that they not only still walk among us but also play sold-out summer tour dates.
And, of course, they’re still making trouble all these years later (or as some might say, “Same Ol’ Situation.”)
According to a local news station in North Carolina, a federal investigation has been launched into photos that surfaced depicting Crüe drummer Tommy Lee and current tourmate Bret Michaels hanging out and shooting guns with some local police officers. (Whoever built this slideshow of photos of everybody at the firing range is doing the Lord’s work.) (Also, would somebody please give Tommy a sandwich? The guy is wasting away!)
The shots raised a handful of red flags for the cops’ local departments (nobody seems to be sure whether or not anybody violated any internal rules) as well as for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, who are looking into whether or not either rocker has a criminal record that could have made the gun-happy adventure illegal.
While there’s probably nothing wrong with Lee or Michaels blowing off steam by throwing a little lead around, they both have had regular run-ins with the law. Cops pulled over Michaels’ tour buses last year and found drugs on one of them, while one of Lee’s visits to North Carolina once ended in a riot.
No charges have been brought up and nobody is even sure anybody did anything wrong (hence the investigations), but this incident does remind us how valuable these guys are to the world at large. If Tommy Lee didn’t exist to get tattoos and be photographed holding a weapon, what else would we look at on the internet on a sunny Friday afternoon?
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And what exactly did they do wrong??
I don’t think it’s them– it’s the police officers who may be in trouble for lending them the guns if they have any serious criminal records.
Or maybe they’re just looking into why nobody’s fed Tommy Lee for the last two years.
Oh, no. It will be them. If you have prior felony convictions you cannot even possess a firearm. Holding is considered possessing. I have watched people go down for pictures of them holding rifles that had felonies for non-violent crimes. In the eyes of the law, a felon is a felon.
Geez Louise! Tommy Lee looks skeletal.
Tommy Lee is a wife beating FELON…..Him with a gun is a CRIME!
You’re crazy
kelly
Duane,Hopefully, the next media outlet after the shock jocks to be meuzlzd will be those homos at PBS and Sesame Street.
Yeah, but it’s totally cool to hang out with them.
Tommy Lee *thinking*: “Damn,if I wasn’t around all these cops I’d blow Bret’s brains out…or at least them huge arse lips…
Bret Michaels thinking: “*sobbing* I almost died”
Tommy thinking: Man,I need some Jagermeister right now…
Bret thinking *bawling* Im sooo lucky to be alive
Tommy: wait…when was the last time I ate?!?! I should look into that….
Bret thinking *sobbing uncontrollably* why me?!
So you mean they were participating in a completely legal activity? And this is news … how?