my dad never believed me when I said there was a glam rocker riding a rainbow in my closet.Accused of paying a 12-year-old 150,000 dong ($8) for sex, Gary Glitter has been arrested in Viet Nam, after attempting to flee to Bangkok with, as the article puts it, “a 14-year-old girl who described him as her husband.” Ok, that last part is only alleged by local media, but I feel like there’s probably a special line at customs for people fleeing with child brides. Penalties in Viet Nam are usually capped at 12 years in prison for statutory rape, but when the victim is as young as 12, the maximum is death by firing squad.

You have to be a pretty determined pedophile to prove that being banned from Cambodia for giving it a bad name is not, in fact, hitting bottom.

Comments (24)
  1. Noel Gallagher  |   Posted on Nov 22nd, 2005

    he’s a cunt he fucking sued my band because he said hello sound like one of his shite songs. fook that pedo him and phil collins man evil cunts.

  2. Justin  |   Posted on Nov 22nd, 2005

    Gary Glittler is actually listed in the credits of “Hello.”

  3. kylie  |   Posted on Nov 22nd, 2005

    SICK SICK SICK.

  4. Milhouse  |   Posted on Nov 22nd, 2005

    I read that he was living in Vietnam as well, probably for the high volume of kiddie ass at his disposal. That and I have to listen to his retarded song every time I go to a basketball game. Die fucker.

  5. you said dong.

  6. adam  |   Posted on Nov 22nd, 2005

    Dr. Dong.

  7. I too giggled upon reading that their currency is the the “dong.”

  8. “Up to our necks in crisps and litter
    in the van we dubbed the Gary Glitter”

    …wondering if Of Montreal meant that the van looked like a child molester’s van, or if it was just really shitty.

  9. fido  |   Posted on Nov 22nd, 2005

    Gary, make sure you get a friend to fix your hard drive next time.

    …actually don’t. Your music is rubbish and you deserve to be in jail, even if you didn’t do it.

  10. If you go to a little place called Kingston, Ontario and spend enough time hauling your ass to and from the train station which, because its canada (the home of pointless distances) is barely even in the city you can eventually get yourself a can being driven by Gary Glitter’s cousin, who will tell all about his cousin and the ‘difficulties’ he’s having in the far east. As far as i remember he didn’t mention paying the price of sandwich to roger some vietnamese pre-teen… i guess i didn’t tip well enough.

  11. Makes you wanna yell “Dude, what’s wrong with a fully grown woman??”

  12. “Dong rules everything around me/c.r.e.a.m. get the money/dollar-dollar bills, y’all…”

  13. Justin  |   Posted on Nov 22nd, 2005

    By the way, I’ve refrained from any piling on re: Jim but this is really a subpar post, the kind of thing I don’t come to Stereogum for. I.e., a link to a wire story that 95 percent of people reading this blog probably already saw elsewhere.

  14. justina aguilera  |   Posted on Nov 22nd, 2005

    “a link to a wire story that 95 percent of people reading this blog probably already saw elsewhere.”

    surely you overestimate the % of indignant college kids who pay attention to wire clippings.

  15. I’m on vacation, so I didn’t realize it was everywhere.

  16. dang,

    what would michael jackson do?

  17. barb  |   Posted on Nov 22nd, 2005

    Is it Viet Nam or Vietnam? I thought it was one word. Either way, the perv is screwed.

  18. fido  |   Posted on Nov 22nd, 2005

    I saw a Gary Glitter van speeding down the interstate with a weird mirror on the back of it. Since that name is taken, we dubbed it the Gacy. Yeah, really unfunny. But it’s hard to name a van after a convicted child molester and laugh about it. Suspected child molesters is a less touchy subject, so we renamed it Kowalski after my old Chemistry teacher.

  19. justin, maybe stereogum should consult w/ you before they post anything.

  20. david ludwig killed two people to run off with a 14 year old girl. i guess he didn’t realize what the bluebook is on that.

  21. Professor Pederast  |   Posted on Nov 23rd, 2005

    A mistake often sen on the Maury Povich show: Did you mean “indigent” as opposed to “indignant?” Dictionary.com is a useful tool.

  22. Happy Thanksgiving! I’m thankful I get lots of great morsels here at Stereogum that I don’t have the effing time to look up, RSS’s or not.

    Thanks Jim, Stereogum and everyone else for blogging everything you do.

    xoxoxoxoxo

    PS. I’m not arse kissing here, just saying thanks!

  23. ‘Mommy, do they celebrate Christmas in Vietnam?’

    ‘No, Dear, but they may hang some glitter this year!’

  24. david  |   Posted on Jun 26th, 2009

    dude if yooure band is oasis yall fucking suck anyways

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