<p>I suppose the guy’s in a no-win situation. Stay silent and appear to be playing the public for a fool, or explain and be humiliated. I do feel sorry for him.</p>
<p>I have a theory about why he wrought such havoc just exiting his driveway. I think his wife hit the window with the golf club as he was leaving, and he thought it was a gunshot, freaked out, floored it, and lost control.</p>
<p>I move to put my theory to a vote.</p>
<p>Florida law does not requireTiger to speak to the police. He is playing his cards right.
Brilliant in MHO.</p>
<p>Smart move, Tiger. The whole thing is embarrassing, and I’m sure he wants to put it to rest and sort it out with his wife in private. The longer he stays silent, the higher the chances that someone else will do something stupid and will become the center of the media frenzy. My bet is that some politician will be caught with his pants down in the next month or two.</p>
<p>The damage to the front right of the Escalade seems extreme to me if you were simply coasting through your neighborhood, barely out of your driveway. My crappy minivan wouldn’t have sustained that much damage! Mantori Sazuki may be onto something with the thought of acceleration.</p>
<p>Agree on the front-end damage.</p>
<p>Another consideration is that they have kids.</p>
<p>I was in the courtroom once when there was a couple and the husband was there with his wife. They had five kids. She apparently called the police on him (I didn’t know what the reason was) and she wanted to take it all back after finding out what the potential consequences were for him. He could go to jail and I guess she wouldn’t have a breadwinner and father around and I’m guessing that would be a considerable financial hardship. She wasn’t in charge of what was going on; the State was. No clue as to the outcome.</p>
<p>In another court case I saw, a teenager had grabbed her then boyfriend’s shirt and ripped it after he drove recklessly and got into an accident. The boyfriend apparently filed a complaint against her (I assume that he had to deal with his own problems stemming from the accident too). She was in court with her father trying to work something out with prosecutors but she was potentially facing something like six months in jail for something that sounded so incredibly minor.</p>
<p>In the Woods’ case, there are children involved and police cases can get out of control
so perhaps the Woods should take a vacation for a week or three on a nice, quiet island
soon.</p>
<p>Nothing much good happens when you start talking to the police.</p>
<p>Seems to me there are at least 3 areas that come into play.</p>
<p>Legal. So long as you arent forced to speak to the police, why do it? Most criminal attorneys I know never suggest having an unnecessary chat. I doubt that the local DA wants to try and prosecute a marginal case against a popular and wealthy celebrity (not sure for what) or his wife (domestic violence?). Apparently there are no witnesses to what happened. So, why possibly give the DA something to go on?</p>
<p>Family. How does giving an explanation to others possibly help that family? No matter what gets said, some people are going to say --no way it was something more and/or else. Besides, if the truth is that Elin popped Tiger, he could be putting her in jeopardy with the law.</p>
<p>Career. I believe that if Rachel stays quite and doesnt sue NE, Tiger ignores it and Elin doesnt file for divorce, this too will pass with the next scandal. Realize that Rachel has said no affair and she is the one that gets her fame from saying that it did happen. Tiger said that he was at fault for whatever happened that night, so he is still a stand-up guy even though he didnt admit or deny the Rachel thing. (This is brilliant, if you think about it–I did something, but you dont get to know what–).</p>
<p>I don’t know what to believe v. what is just a rumor/joke, but on the radio this morning I heard he did not have shoes on when he was found by the car. ???</p>
<p>07dad–that sums up the situation from his/their pov fairly succinctly, I think.</p>
<p>It’s just less fun for the crowds.</p>
<p>I think that sports are boring, and golf is the most boring of the boring. Once Tiger Woods grew up and was no longer a child prodigy, I didn’t find him interesting. He wins and keeps winning. He doesn’t particularly stand for anything except being the world’s greatest golfer, and for this non sports fan, that wasn’t enough reason for me to follow his life or his career. </p>
<p>His charity --attracting poor kids to golf – seems self serving (but it is his money, so he can do what he wants with it), so that doesn’t excite me either. I don’t read tabloids and until the accident stories hadn’t heard the rumors of Woods’ affair.</p>
<p>It did interest me when it looked like he was in a serious accident because that would have been a difficult situation for a young adult athlete with a young family to be in, and I’d feel sorry for anyone in such a situation.</p>
<p>The only reason, however, that I’ve continued to be interested in the story is how he hid himself from the police and released a statement that didn’t make sense.</p>
<p>If he’d said, “I had an argument with my wife, and she chased me, I fled in my car, and in my distress, got into an accident,” the story for me would have been over. All sorts of crazy things happen in celebrities’ lives. I’m just glad that I’m not one and don’t have to live with one.</p>
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<p>I was hoping that she didn’t hit him while he was sleeping.</p>
<p>Of course, the saturday nite live skit will be much better than the Sunday night movie version, imho.</p>
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<p>Northstarmom, his charitable work through his foundation is much more than just attracting poor kids to golf. The golf is a small part, actually, with education being the main focus of the foundation. You might want to have a look at his foundation website.</p>
<p>[Tiger</a> Woods Foundation - Empowering Youth](<a href=“http://www.tigerwoodsfoundation.org/what_we_do.php]Tiger”>http://www.tigerwoodsfoundation.org/what_we_do.php)</p>
<p>I truly believe he is one of the most quietly generous celeb who puts his money where his heart and mouth are.</p>
<p>It doesn’t get any better than that.</p>
<p>He is quite an interesting person. I admire him on so many levels and I’m not even a golf fan.
So to smear him and try to think that he owes anyone an explanaton is really wrong.</p>
<p>Thanks for the link to his foundation. I agree that it seems to support a very impressive range of youth development and leadership programs like the below.</p>
<p>“Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE) - Korea and Thailand: A global non-profit organization active in more than 40 countries, helping students achieve their dreams through free enterprise education.
Dreams + Teams - Thailand: Starting in 2001, it operates in more than 30 countries to help develop international Youth Leaders.
International Youth Foundation - China: Various academic, youth-development, vocational, prevention and wellness programs.
Rural China Education Fund - China: A community-based education facility in Jinan, China, serving the needs of a “whole child.”
ProLiteracy - China: Various academic, youth-development, and outreach programs in China.
Thailand: A unique geographic social investment to three organizations within Thailand.”</p>
<p>If she did indeed chase him with a golf club and smash out the window of a car, he should divorce her and get away as soon as possible. That’s the advice I’d give to a woman in the same situation.</p>
<p>I agree with ellemenope, and if that is the case, I continue to feel very sorry for their kids. If they have a mom with a serious anger management problem and a dad who enables her problem’s not being addressed, the kids are themselves in danger of being abused.</p>
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<p>Does ANY state law require you to talk to the police about an accident when you were the driver? [Hint: 5th amendment to a certain US document.]</p>
<p>What about a suspected case of domestic abuse?</p>
<p>Barrons asks a good question. If, for instance, police felt that they had probable cause to think that a woman was an abuse victim, would we think it were OK if the woman and her husband could simply refuse to talk to the police, and it were fine if the police couldn’t get legal access to the woman’s medical records?</p>
<p>If the roles were reversed in the Tiger Woods’ scenario, and his wife had been driving, and Tiger had the golf club, would anyone’s viewpoint change on this situation including whether a police investigation would be appropriate?</p>