Of course he wants to go home. Jail is, like, boring and stuff.
Nick Hogan Bollea Whatever had his lawyers file a motion asking to serve part of his sentence at home until he turns eighteen next month:
Kevin Hayslett, Bollea’s attorney, said his 17-year-old client is being kept in solitary confinement in the jail’s medical ward because he is not old enough to join the general population.
Hayslett filed the motion for reconsideration and plans to ask the judge to consider placing Bollea under house arrest until he turns 18 on July 27.
Bollea pleaded no contest to a charge of reckless driving with serious bodily injury last month. He was sentenced to eight months in jail.
Is the poor widdle baby lonely in his cell that is smaller than his bathroom? Pardon me while I don’t cry. His lawyer is actually asking that Nick be put on house arrest…have you seen the Hogan house? And Nick thinks it will be better in the general population?
Let’s stop and take a look at what the Hogan family has said about John, Nick, the reality show, the accident, and this whole sordid mess in general, shall we? Maybe we can see what the Hogans want us to believe…and then, after we sort through all the crap, we can jolt ourselves back to reality with something that brought me to tears and puts all of this into perspective. I know it’s long, but keep reading, please.
Hulkster, on how Nick should spend his time in jail (you know, when he’s supposed to be thinking about what put him there):
That’s, that’s just like a temporary vibe, y’know, that’s like you’re evading all those low vibes of worry and doubt and fear but you’re, before you became present, you know how you’re always worried and doubtful and fearful and all that? [...]
Where that’s your normal state? Well, all of a sudden, that temporary high vibe that you get-[t]hat’s just a glimpse of your next stage, where you’re gonna be all the time. Y’know what I mean? God is tellin’ ya that high vibe you felt when you woke up this morning and said you’re still livein’ [not a typo: rhymes with “jivin’â€]? That’s who you really are and that’s where you’re gonna go.
Nick and Hulk on why John is in the hospital (hint, it has nothing to do with Nick’s reckless driving):
TERRY (Hulk Hogan): Well, I don’t know what type of person John was or what he did to get himself in a situation…I know he was pretty aggressive and he used to yell at people and he used to do stuff, and…but some, some, for some reason, man, God laid some heavy sh*t on that kid, man. I don’t know what he was into, I…
NICK:Â John was a negative person.
TERRY:Â He was what?
NICK:Â He was a negative person.
Nick and Hulk on how they are going to turn this whole situation around and make some dough off it:
NICK: Will you work on that real-ality [?] deal… [he pronounces it “real allityâ€]
TERRY:Â Yeah.
NICK: …for me and get that thing lined up, so the minute I walk out of wherever I walk out of, it’s there, boom?
TERRY: Can you do it while you’re on probation?
NICK:Â Yeah, of course.
TERRY: Yeah. Okay…you wanna do it with Pink Snickers [?] or you wanna do it with someone else?
NICK: I wanna do it where I’ll make the most money. [...] It’ll be real-ality, how I’m getting back on my feet, and, uh, how I’m recovering after this, celebrity outta jail.
Nick, to the court on how he thinks about John every day:
During the hearing, Bollea apologized to Graziano’s family and told them he missed John, whom he regarded as his best friend and older brother.
“No matter what has been said, every day I think about John,†said Bollea. “There will never be a day I forget about this.â€
Nick, to his mommy, talking about how there’s “nothing to think about” in jail:
Nick Bollea: “Had I known this, I would have rather gone to trial or I would rather, you know, appeal the case or something. I can’t deal with this for eight months. It’s (Bollea’s cell) like the size of my bathroom.â€
Linda Bollea: “Oh!â€
Nick: “No windows or nothing. Just one little top bed thing.â€
Linda: “Oh my God!†[…]
Nick: “All you do is sit there and think, and there’s nothing to think about.â€
Hulk, on playing the media and his not-so-real reality show and how he tried to warn everyone, but would they listen? Nooooooo:
“Basically they were trying to put their best foot forward and fake a public image of unity and support for their son,†our insider said. “He [Hulk] is a very astute businessman and very good at playing the media — he even admitted in court that their reality show was scripted and not so real after all.†[...]
“We saw the Ashlee Simpson show and Jessica Simpson’s and Lindsay Lohan on the big screen and we just didn’t haven’t a vehicle to compete,â€Â [Hulk] said. “But I considered it, because this time it was about the Hogan family rather than Hulk Hogan; they all wanted to do it and I tried to warn them about what they were in for. Now look what happened.â€
Linda, on street racing:
Her answer: “Oh, I love it. I love it. The rush, the speed on the road, stereo blasting, heart-pounding, racing in between all the cars, dodging the cops. It’s awesome.â€
Nick, on John, shortly after the accident:
“john is expected to make a full recovery its just a slow process for him to wake up because he was in a medically induced coma by a drug called pentabarb which takes weeks to wear off which is why the wake up process is is so slow. his entire body is perfect , he just hit his head.â€
Hulk, on how unfair it is that people were trying to hold his son responsible for his actions:
“It’s just so unfair,†added Hogan. “Just the way the media jumped on my son and just the way they portrayed him. From my gut, it’s something that has torn two families apart, and we’re just so close to John’s family. “
Hulk, on Nick, John, and what happened:
“I’m trying to tell my son to stay strong, because at the end of the day, when all the facts are in, it was an accident,†he said. [...]
“[Nick’s] going to be okay. John’s going to be okay, and if things keep going the way they’re going…Nick and I are going to walk John right out of that hospital,†he said.
I could go on and on, but I think you get the idea…at least, I hope you do.
Many people have taken me to task, saying that I am being too rough on Nick. After all, John Graziano was an adult, and he should have known to put on his seat belt. I totally agree with that. I’m not trying to paint John as some sort of angel, strong-armed into the car against his will. He and Nick and their buddies were known to be fast and reckless drivers. But we don’t know under what circumstances John didn’t have his belt on, or IF he didn’t have it on. Perhaps he had it on at the start of the drive and took it off for some reason. Maybe he dropped something and took it off to pick it up, and it was at that moment the accident happened. Maybe he just didn’t put it on because he didn’t want to. Maybe he did have it on and Nick is lying. The thing is…it is the DRIVER’S RESPONSIBILITY to make sure all passengers are properly secured before starting to drive. Nick should have insisted on John’s wearing his belt, if he wasn’t already wearing it…but maybe Nick was too drunk to notice anything.
EDITED TO ADD:Â According to the police report, John was not wearing his seat belt, as evidenced by an EMT.
People have also said John shouldn’t have gotten into the car with an underage driver who had been drinking (alcohol was found in his system after the crash). Again, true. Perhaps John didn’t know Nick had been drinking, or maybe he knew but thought Nick could handle it. Not the best judgement on John’s part, but hardly a reason to excuse Nick’s behavior. The bottom line is that we don’t know for sure, because Nick hasn’t said and John can’t.
So while John made bad decisions that fateful day, ultimately it was Nick who caused the accident. It was Nick who drove recklessly. It was Nick who drank underage and then got behind the wheel. It was Nick who didn’t make sure his passenger was belted up. It was Nick who MADE THE DECISION to do all these things. Absolutely nothing John Graziano did or did not do excuses Nick’s behavior before, during, and after the crash. Had Nick been traveling the speed limit, chances are both people would have walked away…chances are there wouldn’t have been an accident at all. What was John supposed to do…grab the wheel at 100+ MPH? Jump out of a speeding car? Hit the imaginary brake?
A judge put Nick in jail for a while, and he is supposed to be thinking about all the things that brought him to this point in his life. However, it has been made abundantly clear that all Nick can think about is himself, and the sperm donor (otherwise known as his father) and incubator (otherwise known as his mother) are enabling his behavior. Nick has never been taught things like personal responsibility and atonement and obeying the law…but, he is of an age and has lived enough, even at almost eighteen, to know that such things do exist and that others must abide by them. Knowing this, he purposefully chose not to play by the rules.
But so we are clear…I believe time spent in jail is not supposed to be about revenge, but about punishment and then repentance, and about deciding to not repeat what got you there and trying to atone for one’s mistakes. However, so far all Nick can do is blame everyone else INCLUDING John, slam John and think about how he’s going to make money off this when he gets out. There needs to be a lot more growing up…unfortunately, with parents like these, I’m not sure that will happen. And that definitely won’t happen if a judge puts him under house arrest…that’s like punishing Hugh Hefner by sending him to an adult bookstore. Nick has to understand what he did before he can take any steps towards growing up, but I hope some day it happens.
All that, to get to this. Nick said in an earlier interview that John’s body was perfect, he “just hit his head”. Here is the medical definition of “hit his head”:
In her report, [court-appointed nurse] Jones detailed the injuries Graziano sustained during the wreck. He broke his skull at the base, had part of his skull cut out, experienced brain swelling and had cuts to the scalp. Bone was pushed in and broken in many pieces. He had abnormal collections of blood under the front side of the skull.
And Hulk Hogan said this in an interview:
“The most important thing to me was from all the eyewitnesses and everyone that was there and saw it was that they were not racing,†the former pro-wrestling superstar told The Insider.
The most important thing. The most important thing.
When I started driving, my father took me aside and told me something I have never forgotten and which brings tears to my eyes even now, twenty-some years later. He told me, “You can replace cars, but there’s only one you, and I can never replace you.” I’m sure that is how the Graziano family feels, but to Hulk…the most important thing is that people understand that his son was “not racing”.
So, with that…I found a photo of John Graziano. Not as the young and strong Marine he was, but as a shell of himself, as he exists today. Nick knows what he looks like, because he has seen him. Hulk and Linda have as well. And they can still say horrible things.
This is what the permissiveness of the Hogan family and the irresponsibility of Nick did. This is the condition John Graziano lay in as Nick played Nerf tag in the halls. This is what Nick can’t manage to remember to think about. This is the permanent cell John lays in, while Nick tries to whine and wheedle his way out of the temporary one. This puts all of the crap, the junk, the craziness that the Hogans are trying to pawn off on us into perspective.
I am your anonymous, Hogans. I do not forget.
I AM WARNING YOU NOW, THIS PHOTO IS VERY GRAPHIC AND EXTREMELY UPSETTING. DO NOT CLICK THROUGH IF YOU ARE EASILY OFFENDED OR IF THIS WILL DISTURB YOU. I CANNOT STRESS THAT ENOUGH. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED; DO NOT COMMENT ON THE GRAPHIC NATURE OF THE PHOTO AS IF YOU HAVE NOT BEEN.
This is what Nick and Hulk said God did to John, because John deserved it.
But wait, there’s more…
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