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Kid Rock got the chance to turn his now-legendary waffle house fight into a positive experience on Tuesday, as hundreds of fans lined up to see the rocker near the scene of the waffle crime – a Duluth, Ga., waffle house – all for good cause.

The singer’s appearance was for a charity event to raise money for the Nicholas House Foundation, a transitional housing shelter that helps homeless families in the Metro Atlanta area. (The restaurant was near the original waffle house where Kid Rock was arrested in October after getting into a fight.)

Rock said Tuesday that the benefit was the perfect opportunity put a positive spin on the waffle house experience. “The first situation was silly. Atlanta has always been a great market for us and we have made a lot of money here,” he said between taking pictures and signing tour memorabilia for fans. “We got so much press from the last incident that we decided to not let it lay where was and turn it into something good.”

The rocker, who pleaded not guilty to battery in the Waffle House incident, said that between donations from fans, the Waffle House and money made from auctioning off items such as backstage passes to one of his shows, he hoped to raise between $15,000 and $20,000.

“I like to take opportunities that might not be so positive and turn it around,” he said. “To me, the glass is always half full.” Or in this case, the waffle.

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Kid Rock has pleaded not guilty to a charge of battery from a fight at a Waffle House in Atlanta. Robert James Ritchie, better known as the musician Kid Rock, was not present for the plea. His attorney, Darryl Cohen, waived an arraignment hearing and entered the plea on Ritchie’s behalf in DeKalb County State Court, according to Cohen’s office.

Ritchie and five members of his entourage were arrested October 21st on a misdemeanor charge of simple battery. The charges stem from a fight at a a metro-Atlanta Waffle House, where they had stopped following his performance at The Tabernacle.

Officials say a fight broke out after another customer recognized a woman in Kid Rock’s party and exchanged words with her, prompting Ritchie to exchange words, too.

Kid Rock’s arraignment for battery charges relating to an October 2007 incident at Atlanta, Georgia’s Waffle House has been postponed. The rocker/rapper – real name Robert Ritchie – was arrested and charged with a misdemeanor of simple battery after the scuffle on October 21st. He was due to be arraigned in Dekalb County in Georgia on Monday, but the case has been postponed until February 4th. And there’s good news for Rock – he could escape the charges altogether, depending on further evidence, according to the Dekalb County Solicitors Office.

The other man involved in the fight has been charged with a felony count of second degree criminal damage to property after breaking a window in the incident.

New York reporter Shira Levine ran into Kid Rock, divorced and full of vim on New Year’s Eve, at the party he was hosting at the Gansevoort. “I’m a lot of fun at parties,” he announced. Shira tactfully did not mention that she wasn’t so sure about that; she had, after all, seen that video of him and Scott Stapp. They enjoyed a few moments of conversation, and he asked for her name. “Shira,” she said.

Then he made his indecent proposal. “Shira, will you marry me?”

“No,” she said. “I’m not marrying anybody who has been married as many times as you.” Shira’s mom raised her right, you see.

“I’ve only been married once!” Kid protested. “I got married to the same girl like five times. Does that count?”

Shira wasn’t sure. She sized Kid up. He was wearing a white tracksuit, a bowler hat, and a fur stole. “Would you convert to Judaism?” she asked.

Kid replied enthusiastically: “Yeah! If I can get lifted up on the chair at the wedding! I love Jewish people.”

Shira had heard this from men before. It usually meant they were after her money. “What do you love so much about Jewish people?” she asked warily.

“They just fucking got 50-caliber fucking guns in Israel. They don’t give a fuck. They’ll unload on anybody. ‘Fuck with us? We’ll fuck you up.’ That’s my motto in life. ‘Be nice to everybody, but if somebody fucks with you, FUUUUCK them up.’ We’re fucking saving your country basically.”

“Thanks, but I’m not Israeli, just Jewish,” Shira said.

“Same thing. You say tomato, I say fuck off!” Kid Rock let loose a big, raucous laugh.

They discussed Kid Rock’s involvement with the USO, the “Hollywood fucks” that Kid wished would get more involved with the organization, and the upcoming Iowa caucuses. “I had a great conversation with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Spain last week,” Kid confided. “He asked me what I thought of the country, and I told him what I thought. I won’t share it with you, but I told him that I know this much: that as popular as I am as an entertainer, I’m not educated enough in the area of public service or educated on world events to talk about it with you. But I’ll tell you what the people in my community think and that’s all I can tell you. You know what people should do no matter who is president? They should support that president and be Americans.”

At this, he looked one last time into Shira’s eyes. “So, will you marry me?”

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