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[lagilman]

I usually don't indulge in schadenfraude -- it's just not a good taste to me. However...

the fact that Paris Hilton -- who was convicted of reckless endangerment and refusing to adhere to the terms of her probation, up to and including driving recklessly again on a suspended license -- was ordered back to serve her full OMG TEH TRAUMA! 45 days in jail* in her own private cell rather than serving house arrest in her frickin' mansion because she GOT A RASH?

Makes me happy.

And the fact that she had to be taken out of the courtroom screaming "it's not right!" --Baby, baby. Deal with it. If you had killed someone with your reckless driving, would you have been as upset? I somehow suspect not.

Stupid spoiled bitch. Time to grow up. As life lessons go, you're getting off obscenely easy. And the rest of us, who have to earn our way through life rather than drink and fornicate our way through on the family billions, make a rude gesture in your general direction, and then go back on with our jobs.


/pissy snarling commentary


*mind you, she'll probably end up serving a grand total of two weeks....

Comments

[oneminutemonkey.livejournal.com]

I'm glad she's apparently having to actually suffer the consequences of her actions.
I just don't get how she thinks she's better than anyone else when she breaks the law.
Sigh.
I can't stand her. :>

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I just don't get how she thinks she's better than anyone else when she breaks the law.

Aside from the part where she though she couldn't be charged, and got to take a glamor shot instead of a mug shot, and went home in a few days?

It wasn't the sentencing that was her reality check, it was being hauled back this afternoon. THAT didn't go as planned!

[yourbob.livejournal.com]

I must disagree with you on one small point.

"I somehow suspect..." so.

[lagilman]

You think she would have felt that bad if she'd hit someone, as having to go to jail herself? I don't. She has what one reporter referred to as 'a malignant narcissism' -- nobody else is real, to her. Certainly not as important.

[yourbob.livejournal.com]

What I read was:
"If you had killed someone with your reckless driving, would you have been as upset? I somehow suspect not."

I think she would have been just as upset about having life being unfair to her. You suggest here, as I read it, that she would NOT be as upset about having to go to jail for killing someone.

By your reply to my comment, we seem to agree she's a spoiled bitch - it's simply semantics.

[saraphina-marie.livejournal.com]

What I can't believe is that her trip back to jail was the TOP STORY on the noon news today here in Nashville.

::rolls eyes::

OT

[kriz1818.livejournal.com]

Egad! Another person with my icon!!!

Re: OT

[saraphina-marie.livejournal.com]

It's my cranky icon! ^_~

[ex-fashioni.livejournal.com]

Am I a bad person for thinking that rash is in a nasty location that has nothing to do with her being in jail and everything to do with why she landed there in the first place?

[kriz1818.livejournal.com]

Sing it, sistah!

[wolfsilveroak.livejournal.com]

When I got the CNN breaking news email about her, I laughed my ass off.
As the hubby says, she deserves to be in jail.

[eeknight.livejournal.com]

Thirty days without cocaine and and a semen chaser never hurt anyone. Her, it might even help.

[debg.livejournal.com]

That phrase is a thing of beauty and a joy forever.

Maybe she thinks she looks sallow in orange...?

[tina-jens.livejournal.com]

I have been chortling all day. Barry has been chortling. Barry doesn't often chortle. It's not his way. But sometimes, certain news deserves it.

[nick-kaufmann.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, the case may now be open to serious appeal. "You're in jail, no you're out of jail, no wait you have to go back to jail" can be viewed as cruel and unusual. And it kind of is.

[lagilman]

Actually, that's been addressed by legal 'experts" already and they say no -- the judge who did the sentencing was qite clear -- no weekend parole, no e-monitoring or bracelets. The fact that the sheriff (who, reportedly, is already under suspicion for other preferential treatment of celebs) went against written sentencing orders on the basis of undisclosed evaluation of an undisclosed ailment by outside doctors (when any other inmate would have been sent to the appropriate local facility to be evaluated) does not qualify for C&U or an appeal (there are other reasons they'll try to appeal on, first thing monday, I'm sure)

[nick-kaufmann.livejournal.com]

I was wondering about that sheriff. I wonder if he'll lose his job over this.

[autojim.livejournal.com]

The ultimate manifestation of the Breathless Sense of Entitlement.

The judge was, correctly, PISSED OFF at having his sentencing order countermanded by the Sheriff's Office (the sentence specifically stated "no home confinement"), and further pissed off by someone deciding she didn't need to appear in person today, and could just (literally) phone it in.

What I think actually happened is that the "medical condition" was the LACS office's anxiety attack that something bad would happen to her while she was in their custody, and they wanted her Away.

I admit it, I smirked heavily. I was at work, so chortling wasn't an option.

[tina-jens.livejournal.com]

On Countdown (a fab hour news show hosted by Keith Olberman on MSNBC), they were talking about how this sentence -- particularly the ruling that she must serve the full sentence, with no credit for time served and none of the standard good-behavior credits they apparently award to the prisoners there -- is much harsher than would normally be handed down for this sort of thing.

At the risk of sounding like an old fogy, my response is: Good! There used to be a time when celebrities and public heroes (using that term loosely) were held to a higher standard than the average citizen. With wealth, power, fame, and adoration comes certain social responsibilities. Because you will be emulated, you ought to set a good example.

Judges occasionally throw the book at someone to send a message to the population at large as a deterrent to others who might be tempted to try the same crime.

I think the Hilton sentence does that extremely well.

Lindsay Lohan has been in and out of rehab, with pictures everywhere of her drinking and passed out drunk. She's not even of legal drinking age, yet. Perhaps it's time to arrest and charge her, too.