Puddle Of Mudd vocalist/guitarist Wes Scantlin has spoken about his extensive run-ins with the law over the years. In a newly aired episode of SiriusXM‘s ‘Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk‘, the seemingly perpetually legally embattled musician said of his problems:
“Yeah. [My] main goal [is] just [to] stay out of trouble. And I really seriously don’t really do that much wrong things. I really just don’t. But I’m like a big fish in the little pond. I call myself a Christmas dinner trophy for the Poppo. I wonder how many times they’ve explained that they arrested me at their Christmas dinner, at Christmas day. I’m telling you, man. I’m just a big, huge trophy.”
As for if the media has blown his various arrests out of proportion, Scantlin stated:
“I’ve made some mistakes, but at certain points I could breathe in the wrong direction and get cuffed and slammed in a dungeon. Shoot, man. It’s weird. My whole thing, my whole motto is turn around and run for your life as fast as you possibly can, man… I’m talking about maybe like a girlfriend or something. If they hit the ‘psycho wall’, as I call it — turn around and run… Somebody’s gotta go down, and they usually pick me, ’cause I’m the trophy. But my motto is turn around and run as fast as you can and just run.”
Scantlin‘s latest arrest occurred earlier this year according to TMZ, with the singer having been taken into custody for felony domestic violence and possession of a controlled substance. Scantlin‘s rap sheet includes past charges of domestic violence, drug possession, vandalism, trespassing and numerous other incidents.
[via Blabbermouth.net]
