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Hayden Panettiere Busted for Being in a Nightclub Underage

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Okay, how come this shit happens to Hayden but never once happened to Lindsay Lohan?

The 19-year-old Heroes star had to call police to a Suffern, N.Y., nightclub on Dec. 23 after getting kicked out of a 21-and-over venue and having her driver’s license confiscated.

Panettiere, accompanied by six girlfriends, entered the NV Lounge at roughly 9:15 p.m. via the employee entrance and lasted about 10 minutes before security spotted and carded her.

“At that time we asked her and her friends to leave,” NV Lounge owner John Reznick tells E! News, adding that the actress cooperated by giving her license to an employee.

It was at that point, Reznick says, that Panettiere was informed of the venue’s policy to hand over confiscated IDs to the Suffern Police Department.

Hence her need to call the cops to the scene to retrieve her license ASAP.

“When my officers arrived on the scene we questioned Panettiere,” Det. Craig Long tells E! News. “I asked her if she tried to buy alcohol and she denied it. Panettiere told me that someone opened the side door of the nightclub so she could go inside and say hello to friends, not buy drinks.”

The detective says his officers “examined the ID and verified that it was proper ID for Panettiere [and] then returned the ID to her. She said she needed it to travel to California the next day.”

This is such a strange story. Was it a private security company, or did the security belong to the nightclub? If it was the latter, why didn’t they get their stories straight? Like, “Um, BTW, we’re letting Hayden Panettiere and some underage girlfriends in. Don’t card them.”

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  • wow i can’t believe you can vote at 18 but can’t buy alcohol…
    shouldn’t it all be the same age?

  • All any kid has to do to drink is be financially capable and able to get out of the view of the parents. the problem with teen binge drinking is not age of drinking laws, but the culture that applauds party girls as ‘hot’ and party guys as ‘the cool guys’.

    i really dont see the ethical problem with an 18 year old being in a drinking establishment if they are really not drinking. i dont see the problem with 18 year olds drinking at all really, though in a perfect world they wouldnt wake up after having sex with some random guy in a back alley with nothing to remember it by but gravel rash and herpes.

    • what boobs? she has a little muscle, but hardly any cleavage. thats why everybody loves tall people. they don’t have broad shoulders and thick legs… usually….in hollywood atleas

  • im glad they busted her. the club did the right thing and she shouldnt be treated special and different then other ppl her age! i hate when celebs think theyre better then the rest and think they can get away with anything.

    • She’s just a young girl trying to have a good time. Hell, if I was 19 and wanted to go to a club that I wasn’t ‘supposed to’ then I’d try my damnedest to sneak in too.

      …she’s so naturally gorgeous. Makes me sick. Ugh, so stunning!!

      • I feel bad for regular kids who are trying to blow off some steam.
        This little brat can go rub some money on it if she feels sad :(
        Or she can have her 53 yer old pervert boy firend buy her little ass some vodka and she can sit by her pool and drink.

        No celeb kid who owns their own home to party in att hat age EVER gets one ounce of sympathy from me.

        The regular kids do, not this one

        WTF was she doing in Suffrin New York? People form Suffrin dont even hang out in Suffrin.

  • they need to get a life up there in ‘suffern’…

    hey remember that episode from sntc when carrie was dragged to aiden’s ‘cabin’ in suffern, ny.

    and, and….lol when miranda told her “don’t forget to take some bufferin to suffren.

    i always liked that line.

    ok…i know i’m corny, so what.

  • I don’t get why they confiscated her id, that strikes me as heavy-handed. She didn’t do anything heinous. Ok, going in at all was silly. She probably expected her fame to give her a pass. But all they needed to do once they’d carded her was turf her out. She says she didn’t try to buy a drink, and I imagine that’s true, or else the club would be calling her a liar.

    Yeah, they must be really bored around there. Otherwise, the police would consider the waste of time and the paperwork this policy causes, and tell the club to stop over-reacting…

  • 18 year old humans are known to be very responsible and not at all obnoxious or idiotic.

    Look if you actually DID sign up to go fight in some war or something you should be able to show military ID and drink at 18 but not the rest of those fool children.

    Nuh Uh NO WAY.

    It would be the same thing as giving my granny some red bull and setting her loose on the streets. Crazy heffa would come back with an STD and a wrecked car and who would have to pay for it? SOCIETY and well me :) cause i pay for her car insurance.