| Jimmy Buffett’s career has spanned more than three decades. Over the years, Jimmy has made the news a few times for non-music related reasons, and reasons he’d probably wished he hadn’t. From airplane accidents to getting ejected from an NBA game to being detained for allegedly having ecstasy in France.Parrotheads have benefited from some of the incidents however, with songs like Semi-True Stories and Jamaica Mistaica. (We look forward to a new song from Jimmy inspired by the recent detention in France.) Click on an incident below to learn more about it: • 1974 - Buford Pusser Incident (from “Semi-True Stories”) • 1983 - Jimmy Gets Sued for “God’s Own Drunk” • 1994 - Grumman Widgeon airplane accident • 1996 - Jamaica Mistaica • 2001 - Ejection from Miami Heat game • 2005 - Jimmy Loses His Cell Phone • 2006 - France/Ecstasy Incident |
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