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Hilton to Jail
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It seems to me you missed the conclusion of his post, which is that he doesn't hate her at all. Or is this also not clear?
May I quote an article from TheRegister: However, the Los Angeles City Attorney was none too impressed with Hilton's release, and filed a petition "demanding LA's Superior Court to show why Sheriff Lee Baca should not be held in contempt of court for releasing Ms Hilton".
Fact is that all her life she is treated the way she is because she is rich, and for no other reason. Would she be invited to any party if she wasn't rich? Would people sell porn videos of her if she wasn't rich? Would anyone buy clothes she sells if she wasn't rich? People either seek attention or they don't. If they seek attention, like she does, they can't complain about attention when it doesn't suit them.
Apart from that, I can't see how you would think that she is being treated badly in any way. 45 days in jail for dangerous and drunken driving in a very heavy car with enormous horse powers, while on a three year driving ban, when she has apparently been driving in spite of being banned all the time, doesn't seem inappropriate at all.
Do they keep murderers in minimum security jails in the USA? Over here those are full of shoplifters and the like
According to the LA Sheriff, something like 90% of the people in custody in county jails are merely awaiting trial. In that light, I do think Paris is getting harsher treatment than anyone else would have in LA county, because the jails are so packed that they release most people with similar charges into the monitoring program.
They should have come up with a compromise where after serving a portion in the jail, where she would be released into the monitoring program, but at a half-way house or something, and not her own residence.
paris who
sorry to barge in on this thread without reading much first, but I just gotta say, "I can't stand the slut....She is the type of bitch that seems to hang her funky bits out at any every opportunity for every advantage..... gives our daughters SweetFAll to aspire to and now I can't help laughing when I see her crying on the news because she has to go and do her time.....What a wimp, thinks she can do the crime cause she can afford to get outta doin the time. *uc* her. She deserves every minute she got, and she's lucky she doesn't have to do extra for the bad behaviour she's done on the out-side"... end if end.rant
sorry to barge in on this thread without reading much first, but I just gotta say, "I can't stand the slut....She is the type of bitch that seems to hang her funky bits out at any every opportunity for every advantage..... gives our daughters SweetFAll to aspire to and now I can't help laughing when I see her crying on the news because she has to go and do her time.....What a wimp, thinks she can do the crime cause she can afford to get outta doin the time. *uc* her. She deserves every minute she got, and she's lucky she doesn't have to do extra for the bad behaviour she's done on the out-side"... end if end.rant
Let me condense the post in question (no disrespect to the OP, who isn't actually arguing with me. Not yet, anyway.):
I hate [things applicable to Paris]
I hate [things applicable to Paris]
I hate [things applicable to Paris]
But actually, folks, I don't hate her. I just feel sorry for her.
I'm not arguing she shouldn't be subject to the full penalty of law - whatever it takes to have a permanent effect on her - but when brutal, animalistic, Nazi-like mentality kicks in I have to resist.
She drove drunk, she showed no remorse, and she ignored the judges orders (kept driving and getting caught, and took no DUI classes.)
She was sentenced to jail because of those three things, and when she got the back door rich kid deal with the LA Sheriff anyone can see the judge going nuclear.
Luckily the judge calmed down and didn't cite Paris for contempt for not showing up in court the next day and the Sheriff for ignoring his order of "no home detention."
I doubt the judge sees her as anything more than the typical lying sack of alcoholic **** at this point, because she is sure taking the normal stance as one in court these days.
Ty Pennington likely will get a better deal than her for his DUI, since so far he has owned up to it, all he has to do is follow through on it and make the effort to comply.
As far as her getting harsher treatment for a DUI, anyone who goes before a judge time after time on the same DUI will get slammed at some point.
If your 12 year old copies Hilton's behaviour you will not call it charming, but sorry for the tone of my previous post. It was unnecessarily course.
I guess until we have statistics to back up Baca's claim that 90% of his inmates are waiting for trial and that the majority of the other 10% are violent offenders, we won't know exactly how much (if any) of a rich-kid deal there was. I have a feeling that the extent of a rich-kid deal is that she could afford to bring in her own doctors where the majority of inmates couldn't afford to do that. Also, the sheriff's decision to allow the monitoring at her palace was stupid...if a shift to monitoring was to occur, they should have found a more appropriate residence.
However, if the sheriff is correct went he says that most people with similar offenses are shifted to the monitoring program after serving 10% of their sentence, then Paris is being treating more severely that other LA county inmates.
I personally would love it if all offenders carried out there complete sentence in jail, and also would have loved it if her sentence was a little harsher. But apparently that's a rarity for non-violent offenders in LA county.
The perfect solution would have been to keep Paris in the monitoring program until her fellow celebutant DUI offenders Ritchie and Lohan are sentenced, and sentence them all to a 150 mph head on collision driving Honda Civics on Pay-Per-View, proceeds going to MADD.
I am generally a very forgiving, kind, loving kind of person. But the above strangely makes me chuckle.
She pissed the judge off, most people are idiots, but they don't piss the judge off.
Back to jail she go...well at least she could make another album and sing about the thug life.
Bless
Bless
I think the same could be said for most of us here. It would certainly be a shock to me to go from sleeping 6AM-11AM, using my PowerBook to post here and other places, to having a stainless steel toilet about 2 feet from my bed, and a cell mate that may or may not want to make me his bitch. I really doubt that if I did happen to go to jail (for something I did), I would have any petitions going around asking The Don to let me out.
I saw on the news that she said she wasn't going to appeal and would serve out her 45 day sentence in full. Guess she had enough.
Also saw that the sheriff that let her out after only serving 3 days has a history of getting "donations" from the Hilton family. Uh-oh.
Also saw that the sheriff that let her out after only serving 3 days has a history of getting "donations" from the Hilton family. Uh-oh.
not just a nice car. that chick has cars that any guys/gurls would want (L: 360 spider R: slr mclaren):
i've seen her driving a range rover as well if coupes ain't your cup of tea...
not just a nice car. that chick has cars that any guys/gurls would want (L: 360 spider R: slr mclaren):
i've seen her driving a range rover as well if coupes ain't your cup of tea...
She received $2m plus a Ferrari (I think it was a 360 Spider, but red) for lending her name to a pair of clubs (Miami and LA I think). All she has to do is show up twice a year.
It's great that this is what she's saying, but what i want to see is if she actually applies it to her own life. But that last bit is true, why do we care so much? Much more pressing matters going on in the world.
Move on to something else with substance? How substantive should it be?
"According to preliminary data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), in 2006, 17,941 people were killed in alcohol-related crashes - an average of one every half-hour. These deaths constituted approximately 41 percent of the 43,300 total traffic fatalities. Drunk (those at or above an illegal BAC of .08) drivers were involved in 13990 fatalities in 2006." MADD Online Stats
We care because of the number of fatalities caused by irresponsible, self centered drink and drivers who sneer at the suggestion of justice evoked by a court of law while they insist they are really not part of a growing problem, believe society should wink at their crime, minimize its significance and focus on other important, pressing matters.
Ms. Hilton's scenario was magnified because of her celebrity status, it's true. But it still is representative of a legitimate problem.