Don't Mess With Hayden

If Hayden Panettiere keeps acting this tough, I might have to give her the same honor that I give The Zooey, although I am feeling fairly confident there are not that many Zooeys in the world so everyone knows to whom I am referring. Hayden on the other hand is a fairly common name even in the celebrity world. Oh well. I will think of something.

Anyway, like many teenagers around the world who are not old enough to drink Hayden snuck into a bar to see some music while she was in New York before Christmas. According to E!, apparently Hayden was there for just a few minutes before security saw that she looked too young and pulled her out of the crowd and asked for i.d.

Let's stop right there for a second before continuing on with the story. This was in Suffern, New York. The club didn't care who she was or how famous Hayden was. The only thing the club cared about was not losing their liquor license. In Hollywood, there is no way anyone would have gone up to Hayden and (a) asked her for i.d or (b) even if they knew she was only 19, kicked her out. They would have instead stashed her in a VIP room and if she chose to partake in underage drinking, they would have allowed it. So, are you starting to see where that sense of entitlement starts?

OK, so back to the story. Even though Hayden did not try to order booze and was not caught drinking, the policy is to take the license from the offender and kick them out of the club. Hayden let herself be kicked out of the club, but called the cops to come help her get her license back. How many of us would have just walked away and hung our heads in shame? Actually they could have kept mine because it would have been fake anyway.

So, the cops came and because it was not a fake license and because Hayden needed it to get on a flight, the cops gave it back to her. She probably didn't know if she had committed a crime by being in a 21+ club as a minor, but she didn't care. She wanted that license back. So she called the cops. That takes some big ones.