Video shows Lohan-pedestrian encounter at NY club
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NEW YORK (AP) - Grainy surveillance footage released Thursday shows Lindsay Lohan's car driving toward a man who says she hit him outside a nightclub and kept going, but the blur used to conceal witnesses' faces partially obscures the scene.
The black-and-white video, released by police, shows Lohan's Porsche turning from a Manhattan street onto an alley around 12:20 a.m. Wednesday as Jose Rodriguez passes in front of the car and apparently is struck. Rodriguez, a 34-year-old restaurant worker from Jersey City, N.J., stays on his feet and walks after the car as it drives away.
Rodriguez called 911 and was hospitalized with a knee injury. He said he was coming from his job at a restaurant inside the nearby Maritime Hotel when he was struck and was in a lot of pain. He criticized Lohan and her entourage.
"They acted like I was nothing," he told the Daily News. "That no one could touch her because she was so rich and powerful."
The 26-year-old actress later was arrested as she left the nightclub at the Dream Hotel in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood, police said. No alcohol was involved, they said.
Lohan was arrested on charges of leaving the scene of an accident and causing injury. She was given a ticket and was scheduled to appear in court on Oct. 23.
Her publicist Steve Honig said he was confident the claims being made against the troubled "Mean Girls" star would be proved untrue.
This summer in California, Lohan was involved in a car accident that sent her and an assistant to a hospital, but no one was seriously injured. The accident remains under investigation.
In May, she was cleared of allegations that she struck a Hollywood nightclub manager with her car.
The "Freaky Friday" actress remains on informal probation for taking a necklace from a jewelry store without permission last year. She's not required to check in with a judge or probation officer, but she could face a jail term if she is re-arrested.
She recently filmed "The Canyons," a movie by "Less Than Zero" author Bret Easton Ellis.
The black-and-white video, released by police, shows Lohan's Porsche turning from a Manhattan street onto an alley around 12:20 a.m. Wednesday as Jose Rodriguez passes in front of the car and apparently is struck. Rodriguez, a 34-year-old restaurant worker from Jersey City, N.J., stays on his feet and walks after the car as it drives away.
Rodriguez called 911 and was hospitalized with a knee injury. He said he was coming from his job at a restaurant inside the nearby Maritime Hotel when he was struck and was in a lot of pain. He criticized Lohan and her entourage.
"They acted like I was nothing," he told the Daily News. "That no one could touch her because she was so rich and powerful."
The 26-year-old actress later was arrested as she left the nightclub at the Dream Hotel in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood, police said. No alcohol was involved, they said.
Lohan was arrested on charges of leaving the scene of an accident and causing injury. She was given a ticket and was scheduled to appear in court on Oct. 23.
Her publicist Steve Honig said he was confident the claims being made against the troubled "Mean Girls" star would be proved untrue.
This summer in California, Lohan was involved in a car accident that sent her and an assistant to a hospital, but no one was seriously injured. The accident remains under investigation.
In May, she was cleared of allegations that she struck a Hollywood nightclub manager with her car.
The "Freaky Friday" actress remains on informal probation for taking a necklace from a jewelry store without permission last year. She's not required to check in with a judge or probation officer, but she could face a jail term if she is re-arrested.
She recently filmed "The Canyons," a movie by "Less Than Zero" author Bret Easton Ellis.
Why doesn't she just let one of her "entourage" drive? I don't get why celebrities with a lot of dough bother to drive, when they can relax and just ride.Â
I'm sure a lot more people have seen this video than her last 5 movies.
Not much in that video...better than her last movie though.
"..she was so rich and powerful.."
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Hardly. She has ****ZIP**** star power - only good tabloid fodder.
Aimless & pathetic is more like it.
Looks like a bunch of Lohan's...
For once I might have to take Lohan's side. Those morons were asking to get hit by a car by standing in the way and making a half assed attempt to saunter out of the way when a car came.
 @Dredd57 Completely agreed. Drove slow, the guy that is whining he got hit practically looks like he tries to get hit standing there like a deer in the headlights, in the literally sense.
 @Howard Beale  @Dredd57 I agree for the most part, but the bottom line for me is that moving things aren't supposed to hit people and if I'm in control of the moving thing, it doesn't hit any slow moving humans I see in front of me.
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One should not run into, nor bump, nor nudge, nor brush by, nor saunter, a human being with one's car. Lohan had several better options, including stopping, honking, calling the police, having someone video the guy, waiting for him to move. That said, the whole thing looks like a set up and that should be addressed as well.
 @Dredd57 agreed....almost asking to get "brushed" by the passing car...I would not use the word "hit". If the dumb asses can't use freakin' common sense, then they almost deserved it.
Not a Lohan fan fan by any stretch, but not guilty in my court.
 @Sydthepiper  @Dredd57 also think it is funny that they use the phrase "taking a necklace without permission from a jewelry store" - isn't that just shoplifting?
Here we go again...
I did not see any crime happen there, and as a matter of fact already read this morning that police were beginning to question the accuracy of the "victim's statements"
Guilty.
Doesn't look like she touched anyone and what are all those people standing in the middle of the driveway anyways? Not even the commonsense to get out of the way for the car to get through the driveway.