Re: Tiger Woods Car Crash

by Snaz on Wed Dec 02, 2009 12:01 pm

The public got what they were so hungry for... an acknowledgment he sinned (and an apology to his fans... not that he owed them one).... maybe now they will leave him alone. He is right... it is a PRIVATE matter to be dealt with between him and his wife.

by Snaz on Wed Dec 02, 2009 12:12 pm

Tiger Woods Says He Let Family Down
Golfer Posts Statement On Web Site Offering 'Profound Apology'

DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer
Posted: 10:19 am EST December 2, 2009
Updated: 11:31 am EST December 2, 2009

Tiger Woods said he let his family down with transgressions he regrets "with all of my heart," and that he will deal with his personal life behind closed doors.

His statement Wednesday follows a cover story in Us Weekly magazine that reports a Los Angeles cocktail waitress claims she had a 31-month affair with the world's No. 1 golfer.

"I have not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves," Woods said on his Web site . "I am not without faults and I am far short of perfect. I am dealing with my behavior and personal failings behind closed doors with my family. Those feelings should be shared by us alone."

The cocktail waitress, Jaimee Grubbs, told the magazine she met Woods at a Las Vegas nightclub the week after the 2007 Masters -- two months before Woods' wife, Elin, gave birth to their first child. Grubbs claims to have proof in 300 text messages.

About three hours before Woods' statement, the magazine published what it said was a voicemail -- provided by Grubbs -- that Woods left her phone on Nov. 24, three days before his middle-of-the-night car crash outside his home in Florida.

Woods did not offer details of any alleged relationship.

"I will strive to be a better person and the husband and father that my family deserves," Woods said. "For all of those who have supported me over the years, I offer my profound apology."

Woods has been subjected to more media scrutiny over the last week than when he first won the Masters in 1997 and set off the first wave of Tigermania. He has spoken only three times through his Web site, although this was his longest posting.

"Although I am a well-known person and have made my career as a professional athlete, I have been dismayed to realize the full extent of what tabloid scrutiny really means," Woods said. "For the last week, my family and I have been hounded to expose intimate details of our personal lives."

And he continued to say accounts that physical violence played a role in his Friday morning car crash were "utterly false and malicious."

"Elin has always done more to support our family and shown more grace than anyone could possibly expect," he wrote.

His statement came one day after the Florida Highway Patrol closed its investigation into the accident -- without Woods ever speaking to state troopers. He was charged with careless driving, which carries a $164 fine and four points on his driving record.

The story soon shifted from a patrol investigation to sordid allegations into his personal life.

In the voicemail released by the magazine, a man says to Grubbs:

"Hey, it's, uh, it's Tiger. I need you to do me a huge favor. Um, can you please, uh, take your name off your phone. My wife went through my phone. And, uh, may be calling you. If you can, please take your name off that and, um, and what do you call it just have it as a number on the voicemail, just have it as your telephone number. That's it, OK. You gotta do this for me. Huge. Quickly. All right. Bye."

The Associated Press could not confirm Woods was the caller.

http://www.wftv.com/sports/21783879/detail.html

by babbette on Sat Dec 05, 2009 1:08 pm

My heart goes out to Elin. I apologize for my morbid curiousity. I know he deserves his privacy, but when you are in the public eye, it's difficult. I guess I'm just disappointed. He has everything; money, a beautiful wife and children, and he's chasing cocktail waitresses. (with apologies to cocktail waitresses everywhere.)

by Justice4all on Sat Dec 05, 2009 1:56 pm

If Tiger wants matters between him and his wife to remain private, he is better off avoiding situations that involve police and 911 calls.

If it was just me, he would have his privacy. I'm so sick of the story that I turn the channel everytime I see it on TV.

by babbette on Sat Dec 05, 2009 2:10 pm

Good point, J4A.

by FystyAngel on Sun Dec 06, 2009 3:47 pm

Cheaters Leave Tracks in the Digital Age

(Dec. 3) -- Tiger Woods has long since mastered the use of every club in his golf bag. Yet he, like many Americans, apparently is still learning the hazards of communicating too openly by modern methods such as text messaging.

Woods is certainly not alone. As communication technology continues to evolve, unfaithful partners are finding it easier to keep in touch with their illicit lovers -- but it's also a lot easier to get caught.

The golf champion has said only that "I have let my family down" through unspecified "transgressions." But one of his alleged mistresses, Jaimee Grubbs, says she still has 300 text messages sent to her by Woods. In one, Grubbs tells RadarOnline.com, Woods says, "Send me something very naughty. ... Go to the bathroom and take [a picture]."

Us Weekly magazine has also posted a voice mail Grubbs says is from Woods, warning that his wife has examined his cell phone and may have discovered the former cocktail waitress' name via caller ID.

"Any electronic means of communication -- a cell phone call, an e-mail or a text message -- will leave some sort of trail behind," said Ed Edmister, a private investigator and computer forensic expert at Integrity Security & Investigation Services, which has branches in California and Virginia. "Even if you toss your phone in an incinerator or dump your computer in a lake, there are still records kept by phone and Internet companies. Digital forensics has become a huge field."

Of course, not every spouse needs to hire a private investigator, or send in a partner's cell phone to one of the dozens of companies that specialize in recovering deleted text messages and call logs. Sometimes, the evidence is hiding in plain sight.

Take the case of Tony, a 38-year-old Jacksonville, Fla., man who did not want to use his real name for this article. After eight years of marriage, Tony began an affair with a younger woman. "We sent text messages to each other all the time," Tony said. "I carried my cell phone with me wherever I went."

After staying out late one night with his mistress, Tony slept in while his wife and two sons ate breakfast together in the kitchen. His cell phone, carelessly left in a coat pocket, chirped to indicate a text message had been received. "My 8-year-old son picked it up and read the message aloud," Tony recalled. "It said, 'Good morning, honey. Have a good day.'"

Tony's wife snatched the phone from her son's hand, headed into the bedroom and confronted her husband. Six months later, the couple divorced.

"Infidelity is so much easier today," said Ruth Houston, author of "Is He Cheating on You? 829 Telltale Signs" and a widely cited infidelity expert. "In the past, a potential cheater would go to a bar or a nightclub -- very risky stuff when you're in a marriage. Now you can sit down in your home and click on a mouse and find willing partners."

Thanks to unreliable self-reporting, trustworthy infidelity statistics are difficult to come by. But a recent study sponsored by the National Science Foundation, and reported in The New York Times, showed marked increases in infidelity among both men and women from 1991 to 2006.

"Infidelity is definitely on the rise because of technology," Houston said.

Even in innocuous ways, the Internet can bring together aspiring adulterers. After all, the Web is quick to sort users into affinity groups. Two people who meet in a dedicated chat room already have some interest in common, and that can foster a rapid sense of intimacy.

"Women, especially, crave emotional intimacy," Houston said. "E-mail or chatting can start off innocently, but if there are actual connections, relationships develop quickly."

In any case, adulterers are slow to grasp that modern communication devices are not nearly as private and secure as many people believe. Just ask South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, whose e-mails to his mistress, Maria Belen Chapur, were first made public by The State, a Columbia, S.C., newspaper.

Kwame Kilpatrick, the former mayor of Detroit, suffered a similar turn in the electronic pillory. Some 6,000 text messages from his mistress' pager were posted online by The Detroit Free Press and helped lead to his conviction on perjury charges.

Those politicians are certainly not the only ones to be caught with their virtual pants down. Digital technology, which has democratized almost everything it touches, is making adultery accessible to the masses.

by Piper on Mon Dec 07, 2009 9:19 pm

I don't follow golf, Tiger Woods has proven his expertise on the golf course. He's the darling of the advertising sports world on which he makes his millions, presenting a squeaky clean image.

We are all human, with faults, but this is just beyond comprehension in my opinion. Why did he ever even marry Elin? How humiliating for her and her babies...my heart goes out to her.