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Originally Posted by lashbear
He's a 100 X Millionaire!!!
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Actually, he's something like a 1,000 x Millionaire (or, that's what he's earned, presumably he has spent some of it. And the FedEx Cup had to change their annual prize money rules because it was quite possible under the initial rules that Tiger Woods could end up with an annuity worth more than a billion dollars if he won most of them over the next 15 years (he's already one the two he was eligible for, would have been three if it weren't for his knee surgery last year).
But I'm not really bothered by his money. He literally does one thing better than anybody else in the world and regardless of whether you or are I willing to, a lot of people are willing to spend money to watch him do it (I just enjoy doing it for free on TV, which impels other people to spend money to make sure I can).
SacTown Chronic - You're right that is likely how the conversation would go with most people. But I don't know that being able to efficiently invoke your constitutional rights is quite the same thing as abusing your celebrity and fame.
Plus, if you weren't Tiger Woods I suspect they'd never even be on your doorstep again. A couple years ago a guy came home into our complex and managed to drive his Jeep over a water pipe and then lodge it into a tree. The police came out, asked if anybody was hurt, asked him if he'd been drinking (his "no" was apparently credible testimony), helped pull the car off the tree and left.
I do think the tone of coverage (and our responses likely) would be dramatically different if the genders involved were switched. If we suspected Tiger had intimated his wife with a golf club there would not be comments of "that's what you get if you cheat" or "she's just being chivalrous and doesn't want him to go to jail." It wouldn't be a humorous "ha ha, Tiger got beat up by a girl!"
I still wouldn't care (I'd be interested in knowing, but that's not the same as caring; I'm a curious snoop just like everybody else) but I suspect the official pursuit and media condemnation would be much stronger.