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Garfunkel Faces Another Pot Charge in NY Laughing

Tue Aug 30, 6:08 PM ET

WOODSTOCK, N.Y. - Singer Art Garfunkel, who pleaded guilty last year to pot possession in upstate New York, was charged again Sunday after a marijuana cigarette was allegedly found in the ashtray of his car, state police said.

The 63-year-old Garfunkel, who lives in Manhattan, was charged after being pulled over for failing to stop his vehicle at a stop sign, The Daily Freeman of Kingston reported Tuesday.

Upon approaching Garfunkel's car, a trooper noticed a strong odor of marijuana and a subsequent search turned up a joint in the ashtray, the newspaper reported. He was issued a ticket and is due back in Woodstock Town Court on Sept. 22.

In January 2004, Garfunkel was charged with marijuana possession after state police stopped his limousine for speeding in the Ulster County town of Hurley, which is near Woodstock some 55 miles southwest of Albany. During that stop, police found a small amount of pot in Garfunkel's jacket.

The next month, he pleaded guilty and paid $200 in fines.

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Rteacher · Joined: 23 May 2005 Location: Western MA, USA

I never fared well driving while stoned (eons ago...). I vaguely remember sailing right through a red light at a big intersection while my (also zonked) friend in the passenger seat ( eight miles away...) screamed "whadaya doin'!!!"... Unfortunately, I died when we collided with a low-flyin'/nosedivin' UFO (and my friend was abducted by the aliens...) Now, of course, I'm a ghost possessing the body of an old meguk English teacher in Korea... Cool

Bo Peabody · Joined: 25 Aug 2005

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Rteacher · Joined: 23 May 2005 Location: Western MA, USA

Hey, they didn't have Honda Civics - or "7-elevens" back then (If you'd said VW van and "Woolworths" I would've believed ya, dude ...) Rolling Eyes

desultude · Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 3:20 pm Post subject:

Rteacher · Joined: 23 May 2005 Location: Western MA, USA

My "sailing through the intersection" was unfortunately based on a real incident occuring, I think, in 1970 in my hometown, Springfield, Mass. Anything "made in Japan" in those days was considered practically worthless - even worse than Edsels... I don't think 7-Eleven (Southland Corp.) had spread up north yet, either. Anyway, although Art Garfunkle is undeniably a great talent - and one of the best tenors around (I occasionally play the English-captioned DVD of the S & G Central Park concert - especially the "Bridge Over Troubled Water" track - to my Korean high school students ...) he nonetheless exercised very bad judgment driving his car while stoned. (At least I was young and reckless...)

itaewonguy · Joined: 25 Mar 2003

ohhhh no!! a very very bad man! a drug addict dope seller, OHH NO
a JOINT!!!

one JOINT !!! ohh no quick we need to put a stop to this NOW!!!!

ppllleeaaassseeee give me a break!!!

JongnoGuru · Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep

I wonder how big his place in Manhattan is and what it markets for.

igotthisguitar · Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 1:58 am Post subject:

Rteacher · Joined: 23 May 2005 Location: Western MA, USA

...You mean...maybe it was just another Italian spice - like oregano - in that joint? - ...or maybe he was set up (by some undercover b-i-t-c-h Question

) in that notoriously neo-Nazi town of Woodstock...?

Bo Peabody · Joined: 25 Aug 2005

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Rteacher · Joined: 23 May 2005 Location: Western MA, USA

...I like watching "That 70's Show," and "Austin Powers" but, of course, they don't convey the real "revolutionary" mood of the Viet-nam era - just some styles that were co-opted by mainstream culture. The original Woodstock seemed great, but by the time of Altamont (see "Gimme Shelter" DVD) the counter-culture was becoming a horrific mess as far as the drug scene, and there were many casualties. I did my last joint in fall of '73...