Pete Doherty Fucks Up Yet Again

Rocker discovered "slumped in a toilet" on an airplane.

By Fred Mills

The British media is reporting that Pete Doherty is back up to his old tricks, i.e., making tabloid headlines for his drug misadventures. Apparently he arrested in Switzerland on Friday after being found slumped in a toilet on board a British Airways flight to Geneva. He was scheduled to perform that evening at the Neuchatel Open Air festival.

According to the Sunday Mail Doherty was "escorted back to his economy class seat apparently intoxicated" and a crew member found a hypodermic needle in the toilet compartment. A passenger on the flight was quoted as saying, "A few people on the plane recognised Pete and he went to the bathroom more than halfway into the flight. He had been in there for about 25 minutes when the announcement came over the tannoy for the crew to prepare the flight for landing. The crew knocked on the door but Pete didn't come out. They eventually managed to get in 10 minutes before the plane landed. Pete was taken back to his seat and he looked completely out of it. One of the crew took a needle out of the toilet wrapped in a tissue."

Doherty was arrested by Geneva police, fined, then released in time for his appearance at the music festival. He is presumably back in London now, planning for the next round of interviews in which he tells the British press he's clean and sober and working on his next record, blah blah blah....