Irish bookie pays out as cops bust 'wrong' Gore
Original story on CNN.com
DUBLIN, Ireland-- An Irish bookmaker who offered 14-to-1 odds that Al Gore would be the next high-profile American to be arrested paid out on Friday after police detained the former vice president's son, also named Al.
Having not specified which Al bettors could back, Paddy Power said some of the 50 or so people who placed money on the rank outsider being arrested had been quick to claim their winnings, and then promptly piss away all the money on room temperature beer and cigarettes.
The "bizarre coincidence" would cost it more than $13,600.
Al Gore III, 24, was stopped for speeding on Wednesday and arrested for drug possession after a sheriff's deputy smelled marijuana and searched his car.
Gore when questioned stated, “ How dare you bark at me like some junkyard dog, I am the son of the former Vice-President of the United States!” Then Gore started barking and panting, and offered the arresting officers free copies of "his daddy's movie" an “Inconvenient Truth”. He also apparently claimed he could get them, “in the sack” with Mellisa Etheridge even though she was in his words, “ a Bull Dike”.
Paddy Power had ranked President Bush and Bill Gates among the outsiders on odds of 33-to-1 and 50-to-1 respectively. These odds did not include that of Bush making an even bigger asshole out of himself by saying or doing something stupid, in which the odds to that are 100-to-1.
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