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Bieber charged for striking limousine driver

By | Published on Thursday 30 January 2014

Justin Bieber

I once got briefly hooked on a silly little typing-test-meets-Asteroids game after Justin Bieber mentioned it in an interview, such are the lengths I go to in monitoring the pop tyke’s life.

That admission probably tells you I’m not very discerning when it comes to gaming. So could someone who is please recommend a videogame that we could hook Bieber on to that would let him fulfil the needs of his “inner twat” in the virtual world? Then he could get on with the business of singing songs and staying out of everyone’s way in the real world.

Though I suppose we should stress that the Biebster is denying the latest police charges he is facing, these in Toronto relating to an incident last month. The popstar, having taken some time out since his last run in with the law in Florida last week, reported to a police station in the Canadian city yesterday to be charged with assaulting a limousine driver.

Police say that Bieber and five others were picked up outside a club in the city on 30 Dec by a limousine. They continue: “While driving the group to a hotel, an altercation occurred between one of the passengers and the driver of the limousine. In the course of the altercation, a man struck the limousine driver on the back of the head several times. The driver stopped the limousine, exited the vehicle and called police. The man who struck him left the scene before police arrived”.

Bieber’s legal rep denied the charge to the media on the popstar’s behalf, and said the case should be treated as a summary offence. The singer is now due to appear in court in Toronto on 10 Mar.

Meanwhile back in Florida, where Bieber faces charges of DUI, resisting arrest and driving with an expired licence relating to that alleged drag racing incident last week, the singer’s lawyers formally filed a written not-guilty plea yesterday. The same legal reps said it hadn’t been decided if their client will personally attend the previously reported 14 Feb court hearing relating to those alleged offences.

In other Bieber news, a petition on the White House website calling for the star to be deported from the US back to Canada because of last week’s charges has now reached over 100,000 signatures (just under 180,000 at the time of writing), which means it must receive an official response. Like with all these things, when the statement comes it’ll most likely say something along the lines of, “Don’t be so silly”. You never know though, do you? Though it’s worth noting the White House doesn’t actually have that power anyway.

Anyway, back to more important matters, I’m thinking Pacman for this video game. Though I read somewhere they’ve released games more recently than 1980.



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