Meat Puppets Bassist Gets 21 Months

[Khephra]

MESA, Ariz. -- Cris Kirkwood, former bass player for the Meat Puppets rock band, has been sentenced to 21 months in prison for attacking a security guard with a baton outside a post office.

Kirkwood, 43, pleaded guilty May 10 to a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon.

He was shot during the Dec. 26 incident at the post office in downtown Phoenix and authorities said he was on probation at the time for a 2000 drug offense.

According to the criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court, Kirkwood was arguing with a woman about a parking space outside the post office when she approached security guard Thomas Goodrum.

http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/news/wire/sns-ap-people-cris-kirkwood,0,6502425.story?coll=sns-ap-entertainment-headlines

[GOPisEvil]

1. Nice going, Cris.

:sighwhileshakinghead:

[Khephra]

3. Yeah, you can't even defend a guy or gal

when they act-up like that.

:shakesheadtoo:

[DrZhivago]

2. where do bad boys go when they die?

they don't go to heaven where the angels fly

[neuvocat]

4. Sadly enough, that isn't why he should be jailed.

That whole band should be put in jail for that horrible name and not released until they come up with a better one.

[pocket]

5. used to be "Meat Muppets", iirc

but had some legal trouble there