At 10:16 PM 7/7/2009, Jennifer Lyon wrote:


>I've been doing some research on meth rings for a story I'm writing.
>The fact that Nicole is facing 10 years in prison and is in jail
>with $200,000 bond indicates serious involvement, as opposed to a
>situation like you'd see on "Cops" where she gets pulled over and
>they find a small amount of drugs in her car or something along those lines.
>

It's sad that Nicole got herself into this mess. Things like this
also speak to what could happen to former athletes/child actors, etc
who are out of the business or can't get work and they have no other
skills. We've had discussions about whether what kind of real
education skaters get while competing and what the ramifications
might be (do they get to slide a lot because education takes a
backseat to skating?). It is almost surprising that more people of
this type don't fall into things like this.

>Yeah, Bowman competed before the skating boom and before the
>Internet as we know it existed. Also, the powers-that-be in the
>skating world covered up a lot of the trouble he got himself into in
>order to preserve the image of our fine sport. I do remember the
>posters on the old Prodigy skating board discussing one of
>Christopher's arrests, somewhere around 1993 or 1994-ish. But even
>at that point, he was no longer competing or performing and the only
>people who would have read that particular Internet discussion were
>fans like ourselves.

These days, all famous people(heck to a lesser degree us "regular"
folks, too) should be more careful about the things they do in
public. These days anyone with a cell phone can take a picture/call
TMZ, whatever and the info travels fast for celeb news.