Someone's fifteen minutes are up ...

I'm not sure why I hadn't heard about this until yesterday - maybe it had something to do with trying to survive the weekend without expelling my intestines or setting off a land mine in my pancreas. Anyway, what I would have said had I heard about this right when it happened is: Heheheheheheh. Heh. Ha. Heeeeeeeee.

From The Smoking Gun:

American Idol's Violence Rap
According to police, 28-year-old Scott Savol, one of the remaining nine "Idol" contestants, was busted following a February 2001 confrontation with Michele Martin at the woman's Ohio home. A Shaker Heights Police Department report notes that the unmarried couple had decided to "split up their living arrangement," with Savol scheduled to move his belongings out of Martin's mother's home, where the duo lived with their three-week-old son Brandon. But when Savol and his brother arrived at Martin's home, an argument ensued, with Savol calling Martin "several vulgar names." He then grabbed the woman's hand and pulled an engagement ring off her finger and "stated he was also going to take their son," cops reported. When Savol "grabbed the baby," Martin "stopped him from taking the child by telling [Savol] that she was going to call 911." At that point, according to the police report, Savol shoved Martin, pulled a phone from her hand, and then threw it at Martin, striking her in the chest. "This caused the phone to break," the report notes. Savol and his brother then left the residence. When officers arrived at her home, Martin told them that Savol had "made verbal threats to her in the past by telling her to 'watch her back.'"

When I first saw the mug shot, I thought that perhaps Scott had beat up Corey Clark's sister. Or, possibly, Corey Clark himself. But it was just Mr. Savol's Babymomma, which isn't quite as interesting. I hope this means that I don't have to look at his one facial expression anymore. I wonder what they'll do? Bring Jessica back, maybe? I think that's the way it should have been anyway.

The Smoking Gun also includes a tidbit from Scott's Q & A on the official "Idol" website:

... Savol stated that his son's birth was the proudest moment of his life and that a personal goal was "to make sure my son doesn't have to struggle in life as I did." As for a "most embarrassing moment," Savol answered, "I don't have any."

He's probably hoping that by the time his son is old enough to have an irritating Babymomma, advances in technology will have produced a smaller phone for easier throwing. I mean, can you imagine having to heave something like this?

And of course that incident wasn't embarrassing - now, if he had thrown the phone and missed NotMrs. Savol, knocking over a lamp or a fake tree or something instead, that may have been a little embarrassing.

And finally, I can't post his mug shot because his face makes me mad. So I'll post dear departed Craggle instead, from the police report that ultimately deprived the world of his spinning, his sweat towel, and his refreshing upper register.