TIGER SANCTUARY

Imagine an accident scene.

Police arrive at 2:30 AM to find a car that just pulled out of driveway badly damaged from colliding with a fireplug and a tree. The driver, a woman, is sprawled in semi consciousness on the ground with cuts on her face more likely caused by a human hand than the steering wheel. There is no blood in the car and the air bag did not deploy. A man, the woman's husband, is at the scene with a golf club, used, the husband says, to smash out the car windows to extricate his hapless wife from the wreck he heard from the house.

It wouldn't take a police academy graduate to surmise the police would quickly take the husband in for questioning on two possible felonies; spousal assault and reckless endangerment causing a vehicle accident, while carting the wife off to the emergency room.

If Erin Nordegren (Mrs Tiger Woods) fills the role of our imagined possible felon, then it helps she is married to the soon to be billionaire golfer. Money may not buy happiness, but it sure can buy immunity from police inquiry.

Also published in the Daily Herald, December 4, 2009