...and in other news, the long slow train wreck continues...

This image provided by KTLA-TV shows Britney Spears talking with paramedics as she is wheeled out of her home on a gurney to a waiting ambulance late Thursday night Jan. 3, 2008 in Los Angeles. Police were called to Spears' home Thursday night in a custodial dispute involving her children that lasted nearly three hours authorities said. Officers were called at 8 p.m. and were still at the house several hours later, said Officer Jason Lee, a police spokesman. Lee said Spears was under the influence of an unknown substance. No injuries were reported.
(AP Photo/KTLA-TV)



Mark Vincent Kaplan, the attorney for Britney Spears' ex-husband Kevin Federline, speaks to the media on Thursday, Jan. 3, 2008, in Los Angeles. Spears attended the meeting Thursday, a day after her lawyers filed a motion in court asking to be relieved as her attorneys due to a 'breakdown' in communication with their client.
(AP Photo/Matt Sayles)

to get a drunk woman all of 120 pounds into an ambulance?

I count 13 but then some of them are EMT's and such.

Spears Taken in Ambulance After Standoff
Published: 1/4/08, 8:46 AM EDT
By PETER PRENGAMAN

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The troubled life of Britney Spears added a new chapter when the intoxicated pop star was whisked away in an ambulance after police were called to her house to help end a nearly three-hour custody standoff involving her young sons.

The 26-year-old pop star was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Entertainment Tonight reported on its Web site Friday. Cedars spokeswoman Simi Singer said she could neither confirm nor deny the report, citing patient confidentiality laws.

Officer Jason Lee of the Los Angeles Police Department told City News Service that Spears appeared to be under the influence of an unknown substance. He declined to elaborate. No injuries were reported.

Spears was conscious late Thursday when paramedics took her out of her home in a gurney. Several police cars escorted the ambulance out of the neighborhood, followed by dozens of paparazzi.

Officers were called to Spears' house around 8 p.m. to respond to the custody dispute with ex-husband Kevin Federline over their sons, 2-year-old Sean Preston and 1-year-old Jayden James, Lee said.

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and I don't mean Brit and Kev.

:freak: :freak: :freak:

from all of this nonsense... Surely someone can intervene with some kind of addiction plan to address that-- or let her just go ahead and unleash--marry OJ or whatever.... Cases like this do scream for (temporarily-mandated) birth control, however... Poor, poor children...

looks like kevin will get full custody after this meltdown. she`s had 3 lawyers in the last few months one lasted 5 hours....why do i know so much about this...i have no idea! :rofl: