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Kid Rock gets probation in Waffle House fight
By Associated Press
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DECATUR, Ga. -- Kid Rock has been sentenced to a year's probation and fined $1,000 for his role in a fight at a suburban Atlanta Waffle House last fall.

The DeKalb County solicitor's office said the 37-year-old was also sentenced Monday to six hours of anger management counseling and 80 hours of community service.

The entertainer, whose real name is Robert J. Ritchie, pleaded no contest to one count of simple battery. Four counts of battery were dropped.

Ritchie's tour bus stopped at the Waffle House about 5 a.m. on Oct. 21 after a performance in downtown Atlanta. An exchange of words with a customer escalated into a fight that spilled from the restaurant into the parking lot.

Ritchie and five members of his entourage were arrested. They appeared with him in court, and two of them pleaded no contest and received similar sentences of probation and community service. The judge dropped charges against the other three.

"After viewing the videotape, it was decided that they weren't involved," said Artealia Gilliard, spokeswoman for Solicitor-General Robert D. James Jr.

Ritchie's attorney, Darryl Cohen, said Tuesday that Ritchie was "not terribly unhappy" with the outcome although he believed he was not at fault.

"I think my client is satisfied," Cohen said. "He would have liked to have tried it. He came within a hairbreadth of going to trial."
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Officials in DeKalb County, Ga., say Kid Rock has been sentenced to a year's probation and fined $1,000 for his role in a fight at a suburban Atlanta Waffle House last fall. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg, File)
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Kathy wrote on Jul 24, 2008 11:27 AM:

" I also live near a Waffle House and you don't go there to pick up chicks like Kid did. You go for the hash browns and grits! Hey, Kid! You order eggs at the Waffle House, not redheads to go! "

The Peanut Gallery wrote on Jul 24, 2008 7:07 AM:

" Tor those who have never travelled South of the Mason-Discon line, the 'Waffle House" chain is unfamiliar territory. But to Good Ol' Boys, it's Down-Home cookin'. Nothing like a parking-lot brawl after a mess of 'slider' eggs and a big bowl of grits! "

michelle24 wrote on Jul 23, 2008 8:51 PM:

" My name is Kid.....Kid rock!! Seriously, I don't think he's too worried about this, no one else should either. He rocked it at the judy dome, tho! ;) "

Crappie284 wrote on Jul 23, 2008 8:46 PM:

" I can watch TMZ if I want to know about this kind of "News". "
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