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WHAT HAPPENED WHEN AXL WAS ARRESTED AT THE PHOENIX AIRPORT?

ANSWER: One of Axl's most highly-publicized arrests over the past 10 years came at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix in February 1998. Here's an excerpt from a Rolling Stone article that talks about the scuffle:

"...I'll punch your lights out right here and right now. . . . I don't give a fuck who you are. You are all little people on a power trip."

These are not lyrics to a bitter new G n' R track about lawyers, perhaps reminiscent of Axl's old rants on CD and from the stage against reporters and photographers and anybody else who failed to do his precise bidding. These words, the Phoenix Police Department reports, are what Axl shouted at security personnel at Sky Harbor International Airport in February 1998 after a screener asked to search his hand luggage. Threatened with arrest, Axl, traveling in jeans, a red sweat shirt and a gray stocking cap, rejoined, "I don't give a fuck. Just put me in fuckin' jail." He spent a couple of hours behind bars. The matter was resolved on February 18th, 1999, when Rose, via telephone, pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of disturbing the peace and paid a $500 fine...

Here's a link to the arrest sheet:

http://www.thesmokin...e/axlrose1.html

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Here are pics of the arrest report:

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Here is Axl's mugshot after being arrested: