Rick Springfield was clocked going a little too fast in his Corvette on Pacific Coast Highway on Sunday night, and subsequently arrested on suspicion of drunk driving. According to the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, the rocker’s blood-alcohol level was .10 percent, over the legal limit of .08 percent. He was released from jail early Monday morning, because Rick Springfield is, well, hard to… um, hold.

Was Springfield was drowning his sorrows earlier in the evening, realizing that after all these years he still wishes he had Jessie’s girl?

This week in 1981, “Jessie’s Girl” broke into the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100. Note to non-law abiding viewers: graffiti carries a misdemeanor with a hefty fine and possible jail time in most municipalities.

Maybe folks in the vacinity of where he was imbibing were, to his great dismay, not recognizing his celebrity status and instead heeding his old advice, and refusing to give him (i.e. the “Stranger”) the time of day?

This week in 1982, “Don’t Talk To Strangers” was a very familiar tune, sitting at #4 on the Hot 100.

Or perhaps Springfield simply bopped until he dropped. In a stretch of decades-ago unrelated foreshadowing, the singer does find himself in handcuffs in the song’s music video, picked as the replacement entertainment in an alien-run manufacturing operation. (Oh, the Eighties.)

Of course, if Springfield’s appearance in a Malibu courtroom on July 5 goes south, or he further ignores the dangers of drunk-driving, performing in front of fellow prisoners could be his future fate.

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