Michael Phelps photo...

[Chalenge]

Is it him? News Of The World has a photo alledged to be Phelps hitting the bong? Something didnt look right about the photo to me and they are not the most respectable source...

EDIT: Link

[Fulmar]

Similar but I don't think so.  The ears are different is what stands out to me (the lobes that is).

[CAVPFCDD]

notice the diamond watch, not every average college kid has one of those, leads me to believe its him

and if it is him so what, hes 23 and he just won 8 gold medals, he must be doing something right

[trigger2]

I honestly doubt it. There's a 4 year ban for drugs in the olympics, and he wanted 2012 to keep his collection going. He wanted 14 I do believe. I don't think he'd make such a stupid mistake, much less let a photo be taken of it...

[Fulmar]

notice the diamond watch, not every average college kid has one of those, leads me to believe its him

and if it is him so what, hes 23 and he just won 8 gold medals, he must be doing something right

From a blurry photo, you can tell the cost of a watch?  $5 Rolex's will look amazingly real from an out of focus blurry photo like that.  My wife works in jewelry and she'd tell you the bling watches are highly appreciated by the under 30 crowd. 

A plain white t-shirt and a multi-thousand dollar watch, highly unlikely.  And notice the plastic blue cup in the lower part of the photo?  Classic college party.
An A-list sports icon like him is going to NYC clubs and doing drugs (if he does), not some frat house.

[crazyivan]

Hes been caught for DUI but, Dont think thats him.IMO

[Fugita]

Similar but I don't think so.  The ears are different is what stands out to me (the lobes that is).

Also, if you pay close attention to the size of the cup on the desk behind him and the size of the watch he is wearing and factor in the average distance he is from the desk and divide that by the exact location the watch is on his wrist(taking into consideration that the difference between a real Rolex and a fake is  1/10th of a millimeter), and then here's where your observation comes in, then you divide by the cross-sectional width of his earlobe multiplied by the length of his sideburn(based on the previous calculation to gauge the size of his watch) you'll see that the bong smoker is only 5'10", much too short to be Phelps. The photo is a fake.

[Xasthur]

Meh, weed is only going to slow him down, not make the monster any faster.

He just conqured the world as far as swimming goes, let the bastard have a victory bong hit.

Chit knows he deserves it.

Is weed on the list of substances that will get you banned if caught?

[Ripsnort]

Doesn't change my opinion of him one way or another. He's still the only man ever to win 8. Weed shouldn't be illegal anyway, ties up all that prison space that could be used for more dangerous crimes, and the DEA would lose a few thousand jobs if it was made legal.

[SFRT - Frenchy]

This crackhead doesn't remotely have MF's biceps. 

[texasmom]

Also... size of the watch he is wearing... factor in the average distance... divide that by the exact ...(...1/10th of a millimeter)...divide by the cross-sectional width of his earlobe multiplied by the length of his sideburn... only 5'10"...

From here on out I'll be calling you numb3rs

*edit* and if you're still looking for that new CPID...there ya go.

[Chalenge]

It could be him I guess since even Drudge has it cited.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Phelps has publicly admitted hitting the bong and has apologized for it so I guess that ends the speculation. 

[EskimoJoe]

The guy in the photo has a moostache. Swimmers don't have those, especially Olympic swimmers with X gold medals.

[CAVPFCDD]

lol to all of you with your wild reasoning, phelps made a statement today appoligizing about the picture

so there, those are real diamonds!