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Ex-Playboy covergirl, epileptic dancer, and Shanghai Baby Bai Ling, was, as we told you earlier, arrested for shoplifting, but apparently, her shoplifting charges have been dropped and she was fined a grand total of US$200 for disturbing the peace. Here is her account of the incident:
"I went across the [hall] with the toy in my hand, and asked which battery would fit. They told me [they knew which would fit], but they had really long line and I had to make the flight," the New York Post quoted her as saying. Bai claimed store clerks asked if she could wait and she agreed, exiting to the side of the shop, continuing to call and text. The next thing she knew, she was being arrested for shoplifting."I literally walked to the side of the store, texting, talking. Then the police come. All the lights, and they took me. I had no intention to take," she said. Lucky for her, the DA agreed that she had no criminal intentions, and her charge was reduced to an infraction. "I was innocent, I was thinking, 'I'll do anything to make the flight, or I'll get fired from the production,'" she added. Thankfully she didn't miss the flight.
Here's what we found in the latest post on her blog:
Theft dismissed and I am innocent!Yes!Yes!Yes!I plead guilty today in court to " DISTURBING THE PEACE "
Theft dismissed! yes! This is it! All the darkness went away, the sunlight really come back to me with a huge smile right now dance in my trailer Yes! Yes! Yes!
I told you truth is going to be told and I am innocent!!!
I will drink a sexy red wine tonight after my filming and celebrate! I am smiling for real!
Thank all of you for your support and believe!
If you think that picture above, taken after her arrest, is freaky, take a look at this latest picture, taken with her cellphone. Gawd. That hair looks like it was yanked from some Egyptian corpse.
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Dear god please stop with the Bai Ling news. She doesn't live in Shanghai. She's from Chengdu. She has zero relationship to the city - only sharing an ethinicity in common with this city's residents.
If you were going to report on a Chinese residing in the United States, how about Yao Ming (at least he's Shanghainese)?
Actually I don't care. Just no more Bai Ling please!
I personally happen to dig this shit. Don't decide for the rest of us what we should or should not read.
The Edison Chen thing was not Shanghai-specific but looks like everyone lapped it up anyhow.
Blogs are traffic whores. If you don't like something, skip it. Simple as that.
I am absolutely amazed by what make-up can do to an old woman! It seems she'll be able to chicken dance well into her 90s.