Celebrity Justice
Is the SCRAM a Sham?!

The sophisticated SCRAM alcohol monitoring device which Lindsay Lohan voluntarily strapped around her leg wasn't the reason cops busted her for DUI Tuesday morning -- which begs the question -- what the hell was the point?

TMZ contacted a rep from the company that monitors the SCRAM bracelet who said, "I didn't even know she was arrested."

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31. wow out of jail,what does it take for her to grow up?i guess if you have all kinds of money you can do anything and get away with it,they r not cool at all,they don't care for anyone!!!!They all need help!!!!

Posted at 10:02AM on Jul 24th 2007 by wow

32. They just said (on CNN) that her device tested positive for Opiates...wouldn't that mean heroine and not coke?

Posted at 10:05AM on Jul 24th 2007 by Nicole

33. So much for rehab....

The race is on between her and BS to see who can crash the hardest and die the youngest!! Get some help girls before you kill yourselves, or even worse, someone else!

Posted at 10:06AM on Jul 24th 2007 by rminva

34. What is disturbing is that mother of Lindsey's. At every turn, she has made excuses for LL, saying she is just doing what every girl that age does. Which is totally untrue. There are millions of people who grow up quite normally, who don't get two DUI's in a matter of months. Please. This girl needs a mother. And that woman is a poor excuse for one. She should honestly have those other kids taken from her before they end up like Lindsey.

Posted at 10:09AM on Jul 24th 2007 by hope

35. I was told that if you paint on liquid bandage it still registers you body temp and your pores can release whatever it releases to give a reading to the meter.

Posted at 10:09AM on Jul 24th 2007 by yeah right

36. SHE SERIOUSLY NEEDS TO DISTANCE HERSELF FROM HER SO CALLED FRIENDS... WHO WAS SHE WITH WHEN SHE STARTED TO USE AGAIN? IF SHE HAD ANYONE WHO REALLY CARED FOR HER AROUND HER MAYBE SHE COULD HAVE HAD SOME SENSE TALKED INTO HER. SHE PROBABLY KNOWS NO ONE REALLY CARES AND THAT HAS TO BE A HORRIBLE FEELING. NO WONDER SHE IS ALWAYS SEARCHING FOR SOMETHING.

Posted at 4:49PM on Jul 24th 2007 by Me@work

37. TMZ:

Your sentence "...he reason cops busted her for DUI Tuesday morning -- which begs the question -- what the hell was the point?" has improper use of the phrase "begs the question." What you probably meant to write was "raises the question."

"To beg the question" refers to a false logical argument in which a statement is defended by use of that statement. Sort of circular logic.

For example:

Lindsay Lohan is our culture's most pathetic loser because there is no loser larger than her.

That is all.

Posted at 10:18AM on Jul 24th 2007 by Max M.

38. I went to a rehab facility a few years ago, and I knew that the one thing that would screw my chance at remaining clean and sober was HANGING AROUND PEOPLE WHO ARE DRINKING AND USING DRUGS! Those of us who are addicts just have to deal with the fact that we shouldn't be hanging out at bars or hanging out with friends who use drugs, and I don't think that Lindsay really gets that yet. Her life will be hell until she just accepts that fact and moves on.
If you walked into a cancer ward at a hospital and told everyone there that they just had to avoid alcohol and drugs to become cancer-free for life, how many of them would give it a try? Probably EVERY SINGLE ONE! Tell an addict that we can't use drugs or drink anymore, and most will have to go to jail before really getting it, and some will never understand at all.

Posted at 10:14AM on Jul 24th 2007 by M

39. OF COURSE it was a sham! Who's monitoring the thing? herself, her hard partying mom? and if the monitoring device is voluntary (meaning not a probation requirement, etc) than what is this monitoring company going to do to her? Call her and tell her to stop drinking or else? All these young idiots that run around Hollywood with too much money and not enough common sense are all about the right public relations move when something like this happens...that's why Paris is doing charity work now, that's why Lohan checked into rehab and "voluntarily" wore the bracelet. Did anyone really think she was serious about sobriety when the minute she gets out of rehab she is at the clubs? Drinking or not, that's not what any drug counselor would recommend to someone so freshly in recovery. Her priorities should have been to lay low and concentrate on getting herself in the right frame of mind.

Posted at 10:17AM on Jul 24th 2007 by Da Chops

40. Once again I ask......when will the justice system and law enforcement agencies, da's, prosecuters, judges, etc....in these cases be held accountable? THEY COULD KEEP PEOPLE LIKE THIS OFF THE STREET.........THAT IS THEIR JOB, so why aren't we, the complaining public, marching on their steps demanding that they do their job.

Posted at 10:18AM on Jul 24th 2007 by shamarie

41. Obviously the SCRAM wasn't even activated. More celebrity justice. What a freakin' joke these young people are. They'll all die young at the rate they're going.

Posted at 10:27AM on Jul 24th 2007 by penny

42. Max, you're a total DORK. Are you really editing TMZ's web copy? Get a life, you boring nerd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 10:25AM on Jul 24th 2007 by Stupid Comment

43. The device can't be fake!!! I am sure that someone just forgot to check the batteries...

Posted at 10:24AM on Jul 24th 2007 by one night in Paris, a lifetime of infection

44. Someone at TMZ needs to edit their copy - it's obvious that the writers don't edit. Can someone say "journalism degree"?

Posted at 10:36AM on Jul 24th 2007 by one night in Paris, a lifetime of infection

45. Clearly this poor soul wants to escape her life and go to jail. God Speed.

Posted at 10:46AM on Jul 24th 2007 by Clearly she want to go to jail

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