Taos, New Mexico, a peaceful town, is well-known for its stunning Sangre de Cristo Mountains and bustling cultural scene. A tree was once shot with a.357 Magnum because Dennis Hopper mistook it for a grizzly bear while living there for a long time.

Hopper had hallucinated after ingesting some LSD he'd won in a late-night poker game, according to historian Tom Folsom. The actor/director was accused by the local authorities of driving recklessly, failing to report an accident, and fleeing the scene. Coincidentally, Hopper was imprisoned at the same facility where his seminal counterculture film, Easy Rider, was shot after his arrest in 1975. Later, he admitted responsibility and made a fine payment.

Before discovering sobriety in the late 1980s, the infamous Hollywood rebel managed to survive decades of drug and alcohol abuse as well as multiple unhappy marriages. Along with playing "Billy" in Easy Rider, which he also directed and co-wrote with Terry Southern, Hopper has had a number of other well-known roles in the movies Apocalypse Now, Blue Velvet, Hoosiers, and True Romance. He was also a very active painter, sculptor, and photographer.

Hopper received a well-deserved star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame just before he passed away from prostate cancer in 2010.

Paul Reubens, who is best remembered for playing the phenomenally successful character "Pee-wee Herman," had a ton of success in the 1980s on TV and in the movies. But in 1991, following his arrest for indecent exposure at an adult theater in Sarasota, Florida, his career took a sharp turn for the worse. His five-knuckle shuffle produced a number of gags, including: What is Pee-wee Herman's favorite food? in addition to providing fodder for the tabloids. Stroganoff.

Reubens opted to enter a not guilty plea and consented to performing 75 hours of community service. Later, he would receive positive reviews for a number of performances, including those on Murphy Brown, Reno 911, and The Blacklist. Reubens revived his bow-tied, man-child alter ego in 2009 with a popular stage production, and five years later he featured in Pee-Big wee's Holiday, a Netflix original movie.

The market is still flooded with a variety of celebrity-branded alcoholic beverages, such as Trump Wine, Absinthe Mansinthe, and Dennis Rodman's Bad Ass Vodka. Conor McGregor, a former UFC champion, entered the fray in 2018 with "Proper No. 12 Whiskey," a brand name that has nothing to do with the spirit's vintage but rather the fighter's birthplace and upbringing in Crumlin, Dublin 12. A well-publicized bar room fight and a flurry of unfavorable reviews would follow the release.

On April 6, 2019, the Irishman insisted on giving customers in Dublin's Marble Arch pub free shots of his whiskey. But when a guy in his fifties refused, McGregor punched him. The MMA main event was fined €1,000 for allegedly assaulting Desmond Keogh. After eventually purchasing the establishment, McGregor immediately forbade Keogh from entering.

In 2000, not one but two Nashville crooners proved that the proverb "You can take the boy out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the boy" is true. Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney were detained in Buffalo after Chesney stole a deputy's horse from Erie County. Following that, several Sheriff's Deputies who attempted to stop Chesney from his galloping pleasure ride were allegedly attacked by McGraw and his manager Mark Russo.

Both vocalists had earlier that day performed at the Ralph Wilson Stadium's George Strait Country Music Festival in Orchard Park, New York. Following their detention and arraignment, Chesney, McGraw, and Russo were freed on bail. Following their detention and arraignment, Chesney, McGraw, and Russo were freed on bail. Chesney was charged by local authorities with disorderly conduct, but McGraw was finally accused of criminal assault after causing minor injuries to a police officer. All three of the involved men were acquitted a year later.

Chesney claimed that the "horsing around" was the result of a miscommunication that started when the daughter of a captain in the Sheriff's Department permitted Chesney to ride on her father's horse. Unfortunately, what was intended to be a completely benign and lighthearted gesture was greatly exaggerated, according to Chesney. We've been pals for a very long time, Tim McGraw and I. He just came over to aid his friend when he noticed me in danger of being hurt.

In New York, possessing an unauthorized firearm carries among of the worst penalties in the nation. Plaxico Burress, an NFL receiver, discovered this the hard way and made matters worse when he unintentionally shot himself in the leg at a Manhattan nightclub.

Although the self-inflicted injury would heal, Burress spent 20 months behind bars at Rikers Island for his criminal blunder. He eventually made a comeback to the field in 2011 (this time donning a Jets uniform), winning Comeback Player of the Year.

Burress had this to say about the now-famous nightclub shooting: "The stairwell was narrow and dark and everything was black... I believe I missed a step and let my foot slip because I could hardly see. My right pant leg was exposed when my gun detachment from my belt began to slide. I immediately reached down with my right hand to grab it before it hit the ground in an effort to prevent it from falling. My finger must have landed directly on the trigger because it fired.

Most of the time, it is not illegal to arrive home late at night and pass out. Unless you find yourself at your neighbor's home, like Robert Downey Jr. did on the evening of July 16, 1996, in Malibu, California. The event resulted in trespassing charges and additional jail time, but the troubled actor soon encountered much more serious issues as a result of his acute drug and alcohol addiction.

Few movie stars have gone through such a protracted period of drug misuse, arrests, rehab, and relapse – only to become the highest-paid actor in the world. But Downey, who started acting when he was five years old, is no ordinary person. His talent and perseverance ultimately prevailed, and he went on to star in a number of box office successes, including the successful Iron Man series.

To perform at their best, most athletes aim to obtain a good night's sleep, especially before competing in the Super Bowl. Eugene Robinson of the Atlanta Falcons adopted a different strategy, spending the night in jail following his arrest for soliciting a prostitute from an undercover police officer.

Robinson competed in Super Bowl XXXIII despite his arrest against the Denver Broncos. He ought to have stayed at home and watched it on TV. The two-time All-Pro safety performed appallingly as the defending AFC champions thumped them 34-19.

The Athletes in Action/Bart Starr Award, awarded each year to a player "who best displays excellent character and leadership in the home, on the field, and in the community," was recently given to Robinson, a fervent Christian. Later, he gave the prize back.

Before his passing in 1971, Jim Morrison, the lead vocalist of The Doors, amassed a significant number of arrests, earning him permanent membership in the infamous "27 Club." His first legal trouble was minor in comparison to the outrageous drug and alcohol-fueled mischief that characterized his brief but eventful career.

Morrison stole an umbrella and a police officer's helmet from a squad car while at a Florida State football game. He was accused of "disturbing the peace by being intoxicated," "resisting arrest," and "petty thievery" by the Tallahassee Police Department.

The next person in our lineup is another tiny offender who got into trouble with the law while driving. The snobby daughter of the late musician Lionel Richie, Nicole Richie, drove her Mercedes-Benz SUV the wrong way on the Ventura Freeway just north of Los Angeles in 2006. She was detained and charged with driving under the influence, just like her companion Paris Hilton. Richie then admitted to using Vicodin and marijuana before leaving.

Co-star of The Simple Life received a $2,048 fine and was given a four-day jail term at Lynwood, California's Century Regional Detention Center. In three years, she had had two DUI convictions. She barely spent a little over an hour in actual hard labor before being freed due to overcrowding. She then signed up for a required 18-month anti-drinking driving course.

Miami Beach cops claim to have seen two exotic sports vehicles drag racing along a residential street in the wee hours of January 23, 2014. Justin Bieber, 19, was driving a yellow Lamborghini Spyder and was accompanied by model Chantal Jeffries. The Canadian pop star was detained after failing a field sobriety test and was charged with DUI, resisting arrest without violence, and operating a vehicle with a suspended license.

The singer used a drag strip made of multiple SUVs to race his friend Khalil Amir Sharieff in a red Ferrari, according to the police complaint. Bieber's entourage, which included his father, was also involved. The arresting police calculated that the automobiles were traveling at a speed of about 60 mph in a 30 mph zone. Later, a toxicology test found Xanax and marijuana in Justin Bieber's system.

The adolescent idol was detained for a little less than 10 hours before being freed on a $2,500 bond. In a later interview, he described his terrifying experience and said, "It was incredibly chilly. The worst aspect of it was that. In the end, Bieber and the prosecution came to a plea bargain in which he pleaded guilty to careless driving and resisting arrest in exchange for the state dropping its DUI case. He was also made to pay a $500 fine and complete a 12-hour anger management course.