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Who the hell is Aaron Carter and why would male NKOTB fans beat him up and, wait, there are male NKOTB fans?
By adamg on Mon, 06/24/2013 - 11:03am
Some singer claims he was in Boston over the weekend when some beefy male NKOTB fans not only recognized them they got angry enough to whale the tar out of him, at least, according to TMZ:
Aaron, who posted some gnarly selfies after the fight, tells TMZ he was leaving dinner with a friend last night in beantown, when a huge guy approached him in the parking lot and yelled: "I heard you're doing a show here tomorrow. This is the town of the New Kids."
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Comments
"Kids" is right. We got too
"Kids" is right.
We got too many overgrown children in this city.
File this under....
the most ridiculous thing I've heard all week. Sadly, it's only Monday. No way did this happen the way Carter, who by the way is known for drug use and crazy behavior, describes it.
Boy Band Wars
Reminds me of the Robot Chicken sketch, Enter the Fat One
http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/ddjk40/enter-th...
Ummmmmm
HAHAHAHAHA @ recognized him. Really?
I dunno
I think if there's one segment of the population that might recognize Aaron Carter, it's NKOTB fans.
The mind boggles.
Hey, 1989, if you're missing a massive douchebag, I think we've found him. Please come and get him at your earliest convenience. Love, 2013.
Not buying this
Aaron says he's performing as scheduled tonight, and he's not filing a police report because it's "girlie."
Also, it has that inconvenient side-effect where it forces you to tell the truth or face the wrath of the judicial system for falsifying a report. Other than that, great story. Very stirring.
@Aaron
cool story,bro
Paging Ray Donovan...
This has fixed all over it.
"Aaron, booby, how many times have you been told not to try and score coke in strange bathrooms or parking lots?!! I say we should blame it on an overzealous New Kids fan, it's Boston they're all animals there anyways...now put the road manager on so I can stick it up his ass for not keeping better tabs on you"
Think I'm kidding or do you think I've actually heard this in the back seat before....?
as believable as
that woman who said she was abducted from her home and left in her car trunk on Rt 95 last week.
Sounds like the New Kids on
Sounds like the New Kids on the Block fans got in a bunch of hits. I wonder if he was eating Chinese, it probably makes him sick to think about it now. Still, I think it's pretty fly that he stopped by for the summer.
only thing missing...
Someone needs to photoshop a
Someone needs to photoshop a backwards "NKOTB" on her face.
Your wish is granted
God bless you, sir or madam!
God bless you, sir or madam!
No problem
My only regret is that I didn't have more time to waste getting the puffiness into the welts. The color could also use some shading and striation to it, but... c'est la vie.
It is really disturbing and
It is really disturbing and offensive to see the photo of a battered woman with no context plastered here in the comments.
Where's a report button?
Adam, you should definitely delete that picture; it's totally out of place and inappropriate here.
Nope
Totally appropriate.
Self-battery is not a thing
Well, perhaps indicators of mental illness.
Google "Ashley Todd".
Google Ashley Todd
and grow a thicker skin
What's really disturbing
Is that you don't seem to know how to right click on an image to go to the source of it, yet we allow you to touch a computer.
Not only that
but how do you miss what was essentially national news for a few weeks straight. Especially with a story that had such broad coverage (from TMZ to NPR)
Did you notice the UHub
Did you notice the UHub article LINKED to pics, so they didn't just show up on the screen? That's a lot of reasons:
1) It's NSFW
2) It's disturbing/gross for some folks to look at pictures of injuries, especially a battered woman with NO CONTEXT-- and telling me to look it up myself when I just told you I found it disturbing is insensitive-- I happen to have a history of DV and specifically avoid those images because they're triggering.
3) Sorry, I don't have a TV and get my news online from the NYTimes and Al Jazeera specifcally because they don't do the CNN-style sensational 24-hour news cycle, allowing me to avoid dumb stories like this one appears to be. No, I didn't look it up yet.
Post your pics and make your jokes but allow people to choose what images they get exposed to, especially on a news site that I can usually look at in the office, and without expecting to see a violent image.
Guh?
Consider it exposure therapy and move on with your life.
There is nothing wrong with that photo and your hang-ups don't define the world.
Yes, you do own a TV
only now instead of a TV, you're staring at a "monitor". Either way, you're still getting your information from an idiot box.
it was also
Heavily covered in the NYT at the time.
I'm smelling a troll.
It's not trolling to expect
It's not trolling to expect graphic/NSFW images to be behind a link on a website that usually puts them there.
What do you think this is? Gawker?
I'm going to bring up your concern at the next Uhub board meeting. I believe our next one is in the private dining room at Mistral. I will suggest that the IT staff get their shit together or I'll have to recommend to the board that they cut it down to 50.
We know the answer now
Now we know the answer to the question:
Will you come up to my hotel room if I get you a backstage pass?
I smell Morton Downey desperation
Not passing judgment until all the facts are in and the case is adjudicated, but this sounds a lot like The Mouth getting attacked in the San Francisco Airport a bit over 20 years ago.
Aaron Carter?
Was that the kid in Hanson?
Aaron Carter was really
Aaron Carter was really popular in the early 00s. He's Nick Carter's (of the BSB) brother and was a child/teen popstar. Nickelodeon used to play his music videos all the time (Aaron's Party, How I Beat Shaq, etc). Anyone from my generation that grew up watching Nickelodeon would know him (which I assume is whatever fan base he still has left). I still have his albums in my CD tower. As he got older, he ended up with some drug problems, but cleaned himself up. I had no idea he was touring though.
Yep
I remember him from Nickelodeon. I had no idea he even had a public life anymore. This is one name I pretty much never expected to hear of ever again.
Sometimes context does matter
When I first saw the photo of the woman, I wondered why it was there. I took people's advice, Googled her name and went, "Oh, yeah, her." No attack, no domestic violence, but an individual disturbed enough to carve a letter onto her face (as opposed to this guy, who carved an entire invitation to an advertising lecture into his body; he, of course, is a bold genius, who could possibly question his sanity? Oh, and link is NSFW).
Given the context of the original post, I think it was a valid reply.
But please think before you post something like that. I've never been a victim of violence myself, I suspect most of the men posting on this site have never been victims of violence, so it might be a bit easier to just tell a woman (or a man, for that matter) who finds the image troubling without the context to get a grip or toughen up. If you were at a party, and for some reason had a copy of that headshot, would you just whip it out and show it to somebody you didn't know?