LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The 24-year-old son of former Vice President Al Gore was arrested for drug possession on Wednesday after he was stopped for allegedly speeding in his hybrid Toyota Prius, a sheriff's official said.

Al Gore III -- whose father is a leading advocate of policies to fight global warming -- was driving his environmentally friendly car at about 100 miles per hour on a freeway south of Los Angeles when he was pulled over by an Orange County sheriff's deputy at about 2:15 a.m..

A subsequent search yielded a small amount of marijuana, along with prescription drugs including Valium, Xanax, Vicodin and Adderall, said sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino. There were no prescriptions found, he said.

Gore was arrested on suspicion of drug possession and booked into the Inmate Reception Center in Santa Ana, about 34 miles south of Los Angeles, on $20,000 bail, he said.

It was not Gore's first brush with the law. He was arrested in 2003 for marijuana possession and in 2002 for suspected drunken-driving.

Gore was still in custody as of mid-morning and was sharing a holding cell with an unknown number of people, said Orange County Sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino.

"There are no special privileges," he told Reuters.

Gore cooperated with law enforcement as soon he was pulled over and quickly identified himself as the son of the former vice president, Amormino said.

A spokesman for the elder Gore said he was traveling and could not immediately be reached for comment.

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So Al Gore's son is rotting in jail five minutes from my house today?

I wonder what it would take to smoke out with him?

A hookah with a loooooong hose?

I bet you now they're going to start profiling people who drive Hybrid cars, just like they used to do with Camaros.

A new breed of well off eco-maniacs, working at Google, weed stashed everywhere...

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Shit isn't funny. I got pulled over more times in my Camaros than any other car I owned. Still, the 2008 Camaro is worth it.

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You don't think that was more racial profiling than auto profiling?

EWWWWWWW!

I just saw a preview of the 11 o'clock news and they had Al Gore Jr as one of their lead stories. He's seriously a true "fattie" and quite ugly at that. I'd *almost* fuck Chelsea Clinton rather than spend a minute with that tard...

I take that whole wanting to do drugs with him line back. Let this Independence Day remind us where America's true hate should be focused: On the fat and ugly.

Irish bookie pays out as cops bust 'wrong' Gore


DUBLIN (Reuters) - An Irish bookmaker who offered odds of 14/1 that Al Gore would be the next high profile American to be arrested paid out on Friday after police detained the former Vice President's son, also named Al.

Having not specified which Al bettors could back, Paddy Power said some of the 50 or so people who placed money on the rank outsider being arrested had been quick to claim their winnings.

"We got a good stoning thanks to the Vice President's son," the company said in a statement. The "bizarre coincidence" would cost it more than 10,000 euros (6,775 pounds).

Al Gore III, 24, was stopped for speeding on Wednesday and arrested for drug possession after a sheriff's deputy smelled marijuana and searched his car.

Paddy Power, which is well known in Ireland for wacky publicity stunts and for offering bizarre and sometimes controversial bets, offered odds on July 3 that had made Paris Hilton the 2/1 favourite to be arrested.

It had ranked President George W. Bush and Bill Gates among the outsiders on odds of 33/1 and 50/1 respectively.

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We will never see this happen...