An American Lion

 

Tiger Woods has some explaining to do:

Tiger Woods and his wife were not available to speak to state troopers for the second straight day, asking that they return Sunday to try to clear up questions about how he crashed his SUV into a neighbor’s tree.

The Florida Highway Patrol said the announcement that the world’s No. 1 golfer and his wife, Elin, could not speak Saturday to authorities came from his agent. Mark Steinberg of IMG did not immediately respond to a text seeking comment.

Troopers previously tried to talk to Woods on Friday afternoon. The patrol said his wife told troopers Woods was sleeping, and they agreed to return the next day.

Woods smashed his Cadillac near his $2.4 million mansion at 2:25 a.m. Friday and was briefly hospitalized, police said. His lips were cut, and Windermere police chief Daniel Saylor has said Woods’ wife used a golf club to smash out a back window and help Woods from the car.

Sgt. Kim Montes, the patrol spokeswoman, said Woods’ agent contacted dispatch and the call was put through to the troopers, who were on their way to Woods’ house.

“I don’t know what was said,” Montes said.

Montes said it was “kind of normal” for Woods not to speak on Friday, the day he was treated and released from a hospital.

“It is unusual that we haven’t gotten a statement,” she said. “This just delays us to getting closer to the completion of the investigation.”

Martial strife, pain killers, something unsavory or unseemly—who cares? How is it that he and his wife have not spoken to the police? What rule of law applies to the super-famous and the super-rich anyway?

Saylor said she told officers she was in the house when she heard the accident and “broke the back window with a golf club.” He said the front-door windows were not broken and that “the door was probably locked.”

“She supposedly got him out and laid him on the ground,” he said. “He was in and out of consciousness when my guys got there.”

In a telephone interview, Woods’ father-in-law, radio journalist Thomas Nordegren, told The Associated Press in Stockholm that he would not discuss the accident.

“I haven’t spoken to her in the last few … ” Nordegren said about his daughter, Elin, before cutting himself off. “I don’t want to go into that.”

Woods’ mother-in-law Barbro Holmberg also refused to address the matter.

“She doesn’t want to comment on private issues like these,” Holmberg’s spokeswoman Eva Malmborg said.

Bullshit. How does a slight woman pull a slight man out through the back of a Cadillac Escalade without cutting him up on the broken glass? How does that even work? I believe that he, as a professional athlete, could get her out, but I refuse to believe that she could move him.

This is what it looks like when everyone is frantically trying to get their story straight. They’ve already reached out to family and shut them up. I think she went at him with the club, worked on the car as he was sitting in it, and he drove off, dazed and beaten senseless while reaching for his cell phone. Either that, or he’s got a problem with painkillers and she caught him having sex with a woman in order to get her to give him painkillers.

Either way, how is it he can get away with having the police turned away like that for two days in a row? Has he left Florida? If so, he needs to be in custody.