"But I'm famous, don't you understand?"

Please come along with me as I add to my collection of famous people putting on the "Don't You Know Who I Am?" routine.

Today's special guest is Justin Timberlake, arrested in June, 2024, in Long Island, NY, for DWI.

First of all, let's get this straight: He is a talented performer, no denying that. But he is also 45 years of age now, way past the point where we can say, "Oh, he's just a big KID!" 

He left a restaurant and was observed running a stop sign and failing to stay in his lane. This sort of thing tends to attract the attention of police, who are supposed to be taking drunks off the road before they kill people with their cars.

Timberlake's hi-priced attorney, Edward Burke, Jr, maintains that Justin was not intoxicated, and was able to negotiate a plea deal in which JT copped to a lesser offense.

He was not charged with being a preening jackanapes, however. Should have been, wasn't.

I'm not sure why the video of his arrest is just surfacing, but it's chock-full of foolishness. Such as when the officer asks him about his car, and he says it's a rental, and the officer, not recognizing him, asks what he's doing in that part of the woods. JT says he's following his friends back to their house, and that he is "on a world tour."

You know what, when you think about it, we are all on world tours. Some just go farther than others, and most do it while sober. But when the officer asks what the devil he's talking about, Timberlake says: "It's hard to explain ... umm ... I'm Justin Timberlake."

Busted! He was taken in and booked, and the matter was settled in court, but recently, the tape of his most famous appearance since he walked around with his noodle in a box came to light.

So it was that he filed a petition on March 2 in Suffolk County Supreme Court, claiming that if people saw how he acts while cruising the streets it would be bad for his image.

“Public dissemination of this footage would cause severe and irreparable harm to [Timberlake’s] personal and professional reputation, subject [Timberlake] to public ridicule and harassment, and serve no legitimate public interest,” the petition states.

I have to disagree. As a member of the public, my legitimate interest in laughing at people like Justin Timberlake was served quite nicely.

Red-rimmed eyes tell no lies.