Apr 11 2008Vanilla Ice arrested for domestic battery
Vanilla Ice (Real name: Robert Van Winkle) was arrested last night at his home after he got into an argument with his wife and allegedly shoved her, according to TMZ:
Vanilla Ice is still in custody at Palm Beach County Jail. Palm Beach County Sheriff's tell TMZ that in most cases, people arrested for domestic violence are usually held over to see a judge. Looks like Mr. Van Winkle will spend a night in the pokey.
I dunno, does that look like the face of a spousal abuser to you? I mean, if you ignore the eyes, ear, mouth, hair, beard and the fact that it's Vanilla Ice.
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1. Janine - April 11, 2008 9:44 AM
Judging by how he acted in The Surreal Life, I am really not surprised. In that pic he looks either really happy to have been arrested, or drunk as a skunk!
2. k - April 11, 2008 9:44 AM
haha
3. havoc - April 11, 2008 9:44 AM
He needs to be arrested for that dumbass haircut....
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4. Mark B - April 11, 2008 9:45 AM
Your honor, I'd like to introduce into evidence.... his participation in The Surreal Life. Seriously, is his 15 minutes up yet, or what??
5. havoc - April 11, 2008 9:46 AM
Is it just me, or does he have the Paris Hilton wonk eye?
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6. Fuzz - April 11, 2008 9:49 AM
He kinda has wife-beater cheeks going on there.
7. hollywood_hillbilly - April 11, 2008 9:49 AM
He is smiling because someone is taking his picture instead of just pointing and laughing.
8. I CAN HATE ALL DAY....CAUSE I DON'T HAVE A JOB - April 11, 2008 9:53 AM
CLEARLY SHE NEEDED TO HAVE SOME SENSE KNOCKED INTO HER. I MEAN, LOOK AT WHO SHE MARRIED?
9. Natty - April 11, 2008 9:56 AM
I still love Ice Ice Baby, period.
10. Sam - April 11, 2008 10:00 AM
Yeah, she probably deserved it
11. Guy - April 11, 2008 10:01 AM
A glimmer of goodlooks swapped in an awful hair cut and weird expression.
12. Elliot_Spitz_On_Her - April 11, 2008 10:06 AM
Aaaaahhhh... that wonky eyed, one half open look... the true mark of any serious pothead.
13. RENEE - April 11, 2008 10:07 AM
Nice bangs, dude. I can't believe I used to totally crush over this guy; even went to see him in concert when he was in his prime.....oooohhhyyeeeeaaaah. My how he's fallen. I gotta say though, he hasn't had an easy life, after his initial success. He can never seem to live down the vanilla ice thing; poor guy can't get a break. But I suppose he is kind of a douche. Maybe he can hit it big again and come back as rap star Lil' nutsack (sorry, just saw the movie "Walk Hard, the Dewey Cox story" and am still chuckling at that part).
14. PUNCHDRUNKLOVE - April 11, 2008 10:11 AM
Does anyone else find this as stupid. The dude gets arrested for SHOVING!!
I mean WTF. You are married for godsake. He SHOVES his penis in her at least one a year (keep in mind they are married). Maybe if he took a sledgehammer to your head and cracked it open like a coconut, but arrest for SHOVING that is just fucking stupid. I would divorce her after that.
15. restingonlaurels - April 11, 2008 10:13 AM
@14 Renee I just saw that movie for the first time two nights ago too, and that remix was possibly the best part of the whole movie. Satiric genius, I say!
16. mrs.t - April 11, 2008 10:18 AM
Wow...that's some haircut.
Hail Caesar!
17. justifiable - April 11, 2008 10:20 AM
Mrs Vanilla: My back hurts! What should I put on it?
Vanilla: Ice, ice, baby.
Thank you, I'll be here all week.
18. mrs.t - April 11, 2008 10:22 AM
#18-ouch.
19. Run n Gun - April 11, 2008 10:23 AM
Did you guys ever hear that 911 tape recording of the old man who shot his wife and then calmly called 911? It was hilarious!
20. mrs.t - April 11, 2008 10:26 AM
Cora- he IS a humor guy! He is to be making many humors and being great in tallness! He often is saying so funny jokes. He is famous with many hot models and has intimacies with many.
21. toolboy - April 11, 2008 10:28 AM
#5
You caught that too? I hope Wonky eye isn't contagious, but in his defense his bitch really doesn't listen too well. It all started when they were rolling in his 5.0 and he wanted his top down so his hair could flow, but she wanted it up. That's it in a nutshell.
22. muff diver - April 11, 2008 10:32 AM
Why is this douche bag still relevant?
23. FUN GUS - April 11, 2008 10:35 AM
I THOUGHT HE WAS A "ONE HIT" WONDER
24. George Washington - April 11, 2008 10:36 AM
Ice Ice baby - to go - to go.
Looks like the dude serving french fries at the drive thru.....
25. mrs.t - April 11, 2008 10:37 AM
Kevin Federline: welcome to your future.
26. restingonlaurels - April 11, 2008 10:40 AM
LOL @ 22 - right on mrs. t!
27. nipolian - April 11, 2008 10:45 AM
Want to know what 75,000 battered women have in common?
........THEY JUST WOULDN'T FUCKING LISTEN!!!!!!!!!
28. knees - April 11, 2008 10:52 AM
Hey NIPOLIAN - what does a battered wife do as soon as she gets home from the emergency room?
.....THE DISHES, IF SHE KNOWS WHAT'S GOOD FOR HER!
HA Ha Ha HA!
It looks like someone has punched him in the eye.
29. Elliot_Spitz_On_Her - April 11, 2008 10:53 AM
What do you tell a woman with two black eyes?
Nothing, you already told the bitch twice.....
30. RENEE - April 11, 2008 10:56 AM
@16; amen! Such a silly movie; but a bunch of goodies in there too. I also love the part where Tim Meadows (?) keeps mentioning drugs, and the lack of payment... Won't elaborate here because I don't want to ruin it for anyone else that wants to see the movie.
31. hand puppet - April 11, 2008 10:56 AM
What have you done wrong when you wife comes out of the kitchen and starts nagging you?
made the chain too long.
32. P.S.A. - April 11, 2008 10:57 AM
If you're interested in learning more about domestic abuse, I suggest:
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/domestic_abuse_no_longer_a
The more you know *cue shooting star across screen*
33. justifiable - April 11, 2008 10:58 AM
#22 NIce, mrs. t. Do they have these many initmacies of height positively? (How many of these fucking lame-name sites is this guy have his boat people relatives promoting?)
34. mizer lee - April 11, 2008 10:58 AM
What do you do when your dishwasher breaks?
You hit her.
35. random - April 11, 2008 10:59 AM
It looks like Lloyd Christmas finally got that chipped tooth fixed.
36. restingonlaurels - April 11, 2008 11:24 AM
@ 32 or when he says "you don't want none of this shit, Dewey! It's non-habit forming!" I'm so glad I started watching that with such low expectations, unlike with SuperBad...
37. Vas Deferens - April 11, 2008 11:27 AM
He's killing his wife's brain like a poisonous mushroom while cooking MC's like a pound of bacon.
38. FromOutOfNoWhere - April 11, 2008 11:30 AM
Oh Please, that is so fucking stupid. How the hell can you have someone arrested for shoving you. That's got to be a load of crap. This has got to the most pussified wimpified nertified stupified generation ever.
Hell if he shoves you bitch shove him back, or wait tll he goes to sleep and shave off that goatee.
39. big rosie greenbaum - April 11, 2008 11:30 AM
Don't you just love these guys who go on and on and on about how much they respect women because they have daughters (like this doof did on The Surreal Life) and then turn around and assault their daughters' mothers? Beautiful. Now his little girls might get the idea that it's acceptable for their husbands to assault them one day.
What the fuck is wrong with you fucking men that you can't just walk out of a room during an argument?
40. travis bickle - April 11, 2008 11:32 AM
Upon shoving her to the floor, he was heard to exclaim: "DROP THAT ZERO AND GET WITH THE HERO!!!"
41. me not you - April 11, 2008 11:35 AM
Wow. The overwhelming sensitivity of the loser men on this site who are pissed that they haven't been laid for twelve years and therefore don't have a wife to beat senseless - is just staggering. If any of you were my fucking husband (and thank goodness I have the sense to a) not get married and b) not marry a loser who thinks beating women is funny) - trust me, dears, you would NOT want to close your eyes at nighttime.
42. deacon jones - April 11, 2008 11:38 AM
@42
HA! The he started tap dancing on her face humming "da da da da dadada"
43. End the War! Vote Democrat! - April 11, 2008 11:47 AM
End the War! Vote Democrat!
50,000 Americans died in the Vietnam war, a war that could not be won like Iraq.
4,000+ Americans have already died in the Iraq war. Let's not wait until 50,000 Americans die before deciding to end the war.
Here is a perfect example of why the US should end the war in Iraq.
In the 1980s, Libya increasingly distanced itself from the West, and was accused of committing mass acts of state sponsored terrorism. When evidence of Libyan complicity was discovered in the Berlin discotheque terrorist bombing that killed two American servicemen, the United States responded by launching an aerial bombing attack against targets near Tripoli and Benghazi in April 1986.
In 1991, two Libyan intelligence agents were indicted by federal prosecutors in the U.S. and Scotland for their involvement in the December 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103. Six other Libyans were put on trial in absentia for the 1989 bombing of UTA Flight 772. The UN Security Council demanded that Libya surrender the suspects, cooperate with the Pan Am 103 and UTA 772 investigations, pay compensation to the victims' families, and cease all support for terrorism. Libya's refusal to comply led to the approval of UNSC Resolution 748 on March 31, 1992, imposing sanctions on the state designed to bring about Libyan compliance. Continued Libyan defiance led to further sanctions by the UN against Libya in November 1993.
In 2003, more than a decade after the sanctions were put in place, Libya began to make dramatic policy changes in regard to the Western world with the open intention of pursuing a Western-Libyan détente. The Libyan government announced its decision to abandon its weapons of mass destruction programs and pay almost 3 billion US dollars in compensation to the families of Pan Am flight 103 as well as UTA Flight 772.
The decision was welcomed by many western nations and was seen as an important step for Libya toward rejoining the international community. Since 2003 the country has made efforts to normalize its ties with the European Union and the United States and has even coined the catchphrase, 'The Libya Model', an example intended to show the world what can be achieved through negotiation rather than force when there is goodwill on both sides.
44. Elliot_Spitz_On_Her - April 11, 2008 12:13 PM
#43 - What dosn't belong in this sequence?
Dog, blowjob, meat, wife
Answer: blowjob
Because you can beat your dog, you can beat your wife, and you can beat your meat, but nothing beats a blowjob.
45. sunshine - April 11, 2008 12:15 PM
#17 - that is a perfect description - "Hail Ceasar" - hahaha, you crack me up - thanks for the laugh to start my day
46. RENEE - April 11, 2008 12:19 PM
@38; no kidding. Superbad, well, let's just say the name wasn't too far off, and yeah, maybe my expectations were waaay too high (as w/ Knocked Up). But I had super low expectations with "Dewey", and thought I was right for the first 20 minutes or so...but then it really took off. Ok, I can't take it anymore, I gotta say it......"and you never once paid for drugs...not once!"...So many good one liners in this movie, it isn't even funny!
47. go-go - April 11, 2008 12:22 PM
What do you say to a woman with two black eyes?
Nothing, she's been told twice already.
48. Elliot_Spitz_On_Her - April 11, 2008 12:33 PM
#49 - According to #31, you're as late as your mother's period the week after she had that drunken gangbang, which resulted in you.
49. got melanocortin 1 - April 11, 2008 12:34 PM
#15 what's up v-ice? how'd you get interent access in the tank? got any other lame arguments to back yourself up with...like i dunno, how being a wife-shover is super cool. you should probably use a frying pan next time...get in close for that headshot.
dumb fucker.
50. mrs.t - April 11, 2008 12:36 PM
#49-Wanna know what else got told twice already?
That joke.
51. mrs.t - April 11, 2008 12:40 PM
#50-In the future I will defer to you when someone needs to be taken to school.
And now I'm bid you all Good Day, as I will spend the remainder volunteering in my kids' actual school.
52. Auntie Kryst - April 11, 2008 12:43 PM
Nice mugshot grin you got going there douchefucker. I bet his publicist recommended a little domestic violence to keep him in the news.
53. Tom - April 11, 2008 12:45 PM
Good job dude, no publicity is bad publicity.
54. dirt chicken - April 11, 2008 12:48 PM
Van Winkle ? Are you fukkin kidding me ? Say hi to your Uncle Rip, douchebag ...
55. dirt chicken - April 11, 2008 12:49 PM
Moe called ... he wants his haircut back.
56. TJ - April 11, 2008 12:50 PM
Have to put in my own two cents about his hair. Is he that broke that he has to cut it himself? Maybe his wife cut it & that's why he shoved her. She deserved worse by the looks of it.
57. TJ - April 11, 2008 12:50 PM
Have to put in my own two cents about his hair. Is he that broke that he has to cut it himself? Maybe his wife cut it & that's why he shoved her. She deserved worse by the looks of it.
58. gerard Vandenberg - April 11, 2008 1:09 PM
Is he starring: "DUMB and DUMBER"?
REMEMBER?
59. lola - April 11, 2008 1:51 PM
AM I the only person here who doesn't think shoving is grounds for domestic abuse? I mean COME ON!
60. herster - April 11, 2008 1:55 PM
#25
that was the best line ever
61. Harry Ballzack - April 11, 2008 2:03 PM
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...............................................................(inhale)
HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.....................................(inhale)
Ahhhhhhhh................... "Ice-Ice-THIS Baby" you half wit-one hit-wonder boy
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA..............................................
62. Harry Ballzack - April 11, 2008 2:05 PM
50,000 battered women in this country, and I'm still eatin mine plain
63. lola - April 11, 2008 2:13 PM
I am a tiny woman and I can fight for myself. In a way I think many battered women are enablers. They stay in an abusive relationship when they could call the cops or learn to fight or defend themselves with a women. I AM TIRED OF WOMEN AS VICTIMS it embarrasses me for my gender. and it demeans abuse if merely pushing someone can send them to jail.
As for Darfur .. drop a bunch of AK47s and show them women how to shoot! The special forces have been doing that for years
64. Grunion - April 11, 2008 2:27 PM
Will he ever stop ? (beating his wife)
yo I don't know...
65. FCS - April 11, 2008 2:28 PM
Hey Lloyd, try your burger..
66. poonmoon - April 11, 2008 2:33 PM
A white trailor trash wiggger arrested for wife beating, whaaaaaa? Wait, wait, wait... a guy whose life uniform is a wife beater and oversized beer stained pants/ or beer stained pj bottoms or beer stained sweats or stanky old boxers (basically anything that goes with a wife beater) a guy like that is being charged with domestic battery (ie carrying out the mission statement of his undershirt)????
That's fucking unbelievable. Completely fucking ironic. I mean way to absolutely obliterate a stereotype. This guy, i mean WOW he's just fucking full of suprises. What a character, what a unique and unusual character.
Oh and #25. You are a genius (seriously).
67. sharpeidude - April 11, 2008 2:43 PM
#45 - WE MUST STAY THE COURSE, DON'T YOU KNOW THAT? BESIDES, IT'S THE DEMOCRATS TURN TO SEE HOW MUCH $$$$$ THEY CAN MAKE OFF THIS THING WHEN THEY WIN THE WH IN NOVEMBER. SHARE THE WEALTH, YOU KNOW?
68. Amber Dextrose - April 11, 2008 3:27 PM
#22 - Mrs.tee hee
I hear he also playing is with many friends on bluemin gle.c om. Many smurfs say he is playing there. He is humour so sexy there for many fans! Is he looking for Papa Smurf, or just playing?
69. janex - April 11, 2008 3:35 PM
Well you know, he was under pressure. Sorry, someone had to say it.
70. caljenna66 - April 11, 2008 3:39 PM
Looks more like pinkeye than wonk-eye...
71. tallytastic - April 11, 2008 4:07 PM
why does his eyelid look like that?
creeeeeepy.
72. Alex - April 11, 2008 4:07 PM
I'm surprised no one on any site has pointed out his dopehead pupils. This guy is totally buggin, prolly on OxyContin.
73. hollywood_hillbilly - April 11, 2008 5:58 PM
The lights are pretty bright in booking, which could explain his constricted pupils. Also, only retarded trailer trash still haven't figured out that heroin wtfpwns other opiates. Oh, wait, right.
74. lila - April 11, 2008 5:58 PM
that wasn't NICE NICE BABY!!!
75. poonmoon - April 11, 2008 8:06 PM
#65. Wow Lola you know nothing about abusive situations. I was raised in one and I have since worked to help women get out of them, it certainly is not simple as you make it out to be. The abuse often starts out very very slowly until the woman is a shell of her former self, it's a form of brainwashing. The man is often very charming and can even have very nice sides. The abuser will usually alienate the woman from her friends and family so it's very hard for her to reach out. Of course it's wrong to stay, but it's so common because the situation literally warps the person. Stockholm syndrome often occurs and the woman starts to feel worthless, like she deserves the abuse and the abuser often threatens to kill family members or friends if she leaves (and some follow through on the threats). Also abusers seek women who have low self esteem or who are very vulnerable (perhaps a family member has died or they have gone through something traumatic and are easy prey), it's a form of torture and manipulation that leaves the victim feeling powerless. The police are often useless and until the abuser has beaten the woman into a coma they really can't do all that much to keep him away form her or protect her. Besides all he needs is to violate a restraining order once to kill the woman or her family and it happens fairly often. You don't go to jail for years for battery so the woman never feels safe. My mother had to hatch an escape plan, but in order to keep friends and family safe she had to be very careful. I don't judge her, she was a victim of horrible atrocities and I am proud of what she accomplished. She built a new life and a new career and is an incredible success, but to suggest she was at fault is simply ignorant. Abused women are simply terrified and so warped from the abuse, most of them love the man in a twisted way because people aren't black and white they are complicated and relationship have history and times of happiness which the abuser uses fully to their advantage.
Even children who have been kidnapped and abused sometimes stay, out of fear and out of having their self esteem and confidence beaten out of them.
Now I've stayed far away from abuse in my life, but I would never judge a woman in those shoes I simply feel compassion for them.
It's really not something you can judge especially if you have no experience in the matter. If you have not seen a person beaten until the floor is covered n blood or seen an abuser pull out a gun and threaten to kill the woman and her whole family, or seen a person be imprisoned in their own home and regularly called every name in the book then you really can't judge or presume to understand the affects of abuse.
It takes years to recover from abuse to regain your sense of self and the abuser rules through fear, threats, intimidation and good old fashion destruction, destruction of a person's life and sense of self. You can come out from under it but to act like its easy is ridiculous.
I don't know any experienced intelligent person who isn't highly aware of the short comings of the police and the justice system itself.
The only thing that I consider an embarrassment to my gender is women who show no compassion and are horribly judgmental and completely uninformed and ignorant, that and Paris Hilton (which if you think about it are fairly similar anyway).
76. Byner - April 11, 2008 8:29 PM
He had a nice chiseled face...
Yeah he was hot, but his music was not.
He's ugly now, and his music still sucks, and his face is ugly now.
77. George Best - April 11, 2008 11:31 PM
Informer, you know I was to blame, I lick your boom boom down.
Or however he used to sing it.
78. Coeruleo - April 11, 2008 11:59 PM
not a bad mug shot. probably the best one in a while. he looks a little stoned or something, but not so bad. everyone bags ont he guy, but back in the day we all danced to his music. it still gets played.
79. Anal Fistula - April 12, 2008 2:17 AM
#77, i didn't read your op-ed column, but i think you just attempted to engage in serious discourse on a celebrity blogsite. clearly you're insane and should be ignored. i'm so glad i didn't read your post...phew!
80. michy - April 12, 2008 6:01 AM
29,30 and 31:i hope your mom/sister/girlfriend gets punched to death.then you can laugh about domestic battery
81. knees - April 12, 2008 10:12 AM
83: What an awful thing to wish upon someone. If you're trying to hint at something or be cryptic or what ever, just fucking say it instead of hoping bad things will happen to other people, because they made a joke.
82. Linda - April 12, 2008 11:25 AM
Mmmmm, it seems he is very interested in dating wealthy young guys. I saw him on "SeekingRich.com" yesterday.
83. dannie jo - April 12, 2008 3:28 PM
This guy is nothing more than a has-been with a bad temper.I saw him on Surreal Life and I am not a bit surprised.He's freaking nuts!!!I hope his wife has a brain in her head and dumps his sorry ass!!!
84. dannie jo - April 12, 2008 3:28 PM
This guy is nothing more than a has-been with a bad temper.I saw him on Surreal Life and I am not a bit surprised.He's freaking nuts!!!I hope his wife has a brain in her head and dumps his sorry ass!!!
85. dannie jo - April 12, 2008 3:28 PM
This guy is nothing more than a has-been with a bad temper.I saw him on Surreal Life and I am not a bit surprised.He's freaking nuts!!!I hope his wife has a brain in her head and dumps his sorry ass!!!
86. poonmoon - April 13, 2008 1:33 PM
Deal Anal (#82),
A discourse is communication that goes back and forth (from the Latin, discursus, "running to and from"), such as debate or argument and would suggest I gave a FUCK about their response. I didn’t want a response and I would not have read one. I cannot debate with the mentally deficient degenerates on this site, but I can set them straight and shove some facts, logic and reason up their tight little assholes.
If you read the comment I was responding to you’d see the person was not joking around, but was actually serious in their misguided idiocy. I consider it a charitable action to help educate the ignorant and useless members of society since their lethal stupidity is such a danger to themselves and others.
Thank you and happy fistings.
poonmoon
(remember all the classy girls are doing it)
87. lambman - April 13, 2008 5:29 PM
He always seemed like white trash to me
88. hockeyjunkie99 - April 13, 2008 8:36 PM
Everyone who is arrested on a domestic battery charge is automatically given a 0 bond so they can't bond out of jail The reason being that it gives them a cool down period while they are in the pokey. They see the judge the next day and a bond is set. If its his first domestic battery charge he'll most likely be ROR'ed (released on own Recognisance) or given a minimal bond.
89. push - April 13, 2008 11:58 PM
Omg he pushed her. What a freakin wimp she is.
90. Elliot_Spitz_On_Her - April 14, 2008 8:56 AM
#83 - You just gave me wood. Do you like Chinese food? Have you ever seen "Slap Happy"? Does the term irrumatio mean anything to you?
91. Cherry - April 23, 2008 1:58 PM
I read the page from the bottom up, so my first reaction to his picture was "Who the hell is this?" Then, I saw his name in the headline & my second reaction was "Vanilla Ice? Still alive?!!"
Well, not only is the guy who sampled & therefore destroyed Under Pressure alive, he's also an abusive son of a bitch. Robert van Winkle? Robert van Wanker, more like. Ugh.