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Michelle Rodriguez offered a lengthy explanation for the fact that she’s still wearing an alcohol monitoring device on her website this week.  There’s a lot of information about false positives and shampoo and lemon water and Rodriguez’s purported offer to serve jail time instead of wearing the monitoring device, but the crux of the 1000+ word explanation seems to be that this kind of treatment just isn’t right for Michelle Rodriguez.

Her words:  . I think that level of vigilance is great for alcoholics, druggies, and heroin addicts. Yet I felt for someone like me, who loves her life too much to f*ck it up for a sip of a beverage, this level of control just isn’t necessary.

What’s especially interesting is that Rodriguez’s declaration that this kind of monitoring is “great” for the real bad guys, just not for her, comes on the heels of her argument that it doesn’t work, and that her whole experience has been a string of false positives.  She says that she feels like a guinea pig for new technology and then, in the very next sentence, tells us that’s great for other people, but not for her.

The technology either works or it doesn’t. I haven’t heard a lot of reports of false positives, but it is a new device and there may still be bugs.  If there are still bugs, those bugs will likely occur just as often when the device is attached to a lowly heroin addict as they do when attached to Michelle Rodriguez.   One thing we know about the device is that it monitors ALCOHOL content, not heroin, so Ms. Rodriguez’s reasoning may be a little questionable when she suggests that it makes more sense to put an alcohol-detecting device on a heroin addict than on a repeat drunk driver–which, in case we’ve lost sight of that fact in the face of all this drama, Michelle Rodriguez is.

Even if she does assure us that she “loves her life too much to f*ck it up for a sip of a beverage”.

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