TMZ.com has surveillance video today of a woman near the scene of Charles Barkley’s DUI on New Year’s Eve.
The tape — which also shows a cop car from the DUI task force pursuing Barkley — was shot from a nearby building in Scottsdale, Arizona on December 31. You first see a woman walking down the street. A short time later, you see Barkley’s SUV blow a stop sign, and head in her direction. It appears the SUV stops up the street and picks her up.
TMZ posted that copy, so don’t shoot the messenger after you view the video.
Of course, the significance of the video is Barkley told officers that night he ran a stop sign because he was looking for a woman “around the corner” to perform oral sex on him.
Two things from the video. It was interesting to note the limo that blew through a stop sign before Barkley did the same moments later.
And after watching the video several times, it didn’t appear to me that Barkley’s “SUV stops up the street and picks her up.”
But if you read the headline and copy from the TMZ post, you would certainly think that going in.
Guys, isn’t there someone from The Hills overdosing you can sick your homeless guys trespassing cameramen on? Please, leave the rest of us alone.
UPDATE: Commenter Hurriance Ike Turner (classy) makes comment I should’ve written: If Barkley had picked her up, she would’ve been in the car when he was arrested.








5:19 pm on January 6th, 2009
Will this be appearing on the next episode of "America's Funniest Home Videos"?
5:20 pm on January 6th, 2009
TMZ's website is OK, but their TV show is a complete mess. I can't stand to watch more than 2 minutes of it.
5:25 pm on January 6th, 2009
Maybe this was all just an elaborate setup for Howie Mandel's new Candid Camera-ripoff show.
5:37 pm on January 6th, 2009
If Barkley did pick up the woman, wouldn't she have been in his car when the cops pulled him over?
5:39 pm on January 6th, 2009
That's not a woman - that's Urkel!
5:42 pm on January 6th, 2009
Is "sucked" really the appropriate verb we want to use here?
On second thought, I guess so.
6:14 pm on January 6th, 2009
And I suppose the guy walking in the foreground was the woman's pimp.
8:26 pm on January 6th, 2009
It's not like Barkley ran though the middle of an intersection, he made a right turn that millions of people do every day.
Still, it's pretty stupid to get behind the wheel when you've had too much to drink. Can't these rich athletes afford taxis or limos?