Bruno Mars Caned for Snorting Cocaine in Bathroom After Blackjack Game

Blackjack Vacuum

Bruno Mars, a Grammy nominated singer was sentenced to community service for being caught in a Hard Rock Casino toilet with cocaine after a big win in blackjack.

Imagine that you are sitting on the porcelain god in a sparkling clean cubicle inside a bathroom of the posh Hard Rock Casino trying to take care of business. Life is good, you are famous, good looking, a Grammy nominated artist, who just had a well received performance inside the same casino. Played blackjack card games on a whim and won a nice chunk of change. Wow! Life can’t get better than this. Top of the world baby! All of a sudden you see a pair of cheap shoes poking in from the other side of the bathroom stall. A pervert? Then there is a loud knock on the door that only blind woodpeckers or police officers make. Oh. Oh.

Mr. Bruno Mars was arrested past September at Hard Rock Casino in fabulous Las Vegas, when 2.6 grams of nose candy was found in one of his pockets. On January 28, 2011, according to casino gambling news, the Las Vegas District Court showed mercy (Hard Rock Casino was embarrassed) and allowed Mr. Mars to work off 200 hours of community service, two $1000 chips for a fine and a year worth of random urine tests and lots of cheap coffee at CA meetings. If Mr. Mars (formerly known as Pedro Hernandez) stays clean for a year, his record is clean, otherwise he will be singing the high notes for Bubba, his gentle prison cell mate.

The ‘Grenade’ and ‘Just The Way You Are’ performer told a hardened Vegas cop that he “acted foolishly and never tried drugs before in his life.” Sure Pedro. Wink. Wink. We believe you. You should have stayed at the blackjack table. Without the plea agreement, Mr. Mars, 25 years of age, could have been sentenced to four years of learning latest card counting systems in one of the toughest state jails in the United States. On February 13, Mr. Mars will learn if he won any Grammy Award, and luckily not from behind bars.