Paris Hilton Going to Jail?

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"when she failed a sobriety test after police saw her weaving down a street in her Mercedes-Benz on what she said was a late-night hamburger run.

She pleaded no contest to reckless driving and was sentenced to 36 months? probation, alcohol education and $1,500 in fines. In the months that followed she was stopped twice while driving on a suspended license. The second stop landed her in Sauer?s courtroom."

like the above, i haven’t followed it at all but now it’s started to pan out thought why not try and find out what happened lol (may relieve boredom for a few minutes)…

So she was basically drink driving originally, got banned, and got caught not once but twice for driving while banned? sounds pretty fair to me to get done for it, most people would get one go, or maybe two if they were lucky?! lol.

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IIRC, she violated probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case by driving with a suspended license.

As far as I’m concerned, such people, regardless of who they are, should go to jail immediately following the first offence.

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I am thrilled the judge ordered her back to jail. No one should be above the law, not even amateur porn star heiresses

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“I would hope going forward that the public and the media will focus on more important things, like the men and women serving our country in Iraq, Afghanistan and other places around the world.”

What a sweet and selfless creature. I hope they treat her well…

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:cry:

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[quote]Mick28 wrote:
I know that it’s cool to hate here. Hey, she makes my skin crawl too. She’s an obnoxious, wealthy female who is famous for…well just being famous. And what grinds me the most (for some odd reason) is that she probably never did an hours worth of real work in her life.

But…

I wonder how many people go to jail for a month and a half for driving with a suspended license?

Do I have that right?

Isn’t that all she did?

Admittedly I have not kept up much with the details of the story.

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according to Fox news, this sentence is unprecedented in the state of California. No one else has ever gotten that much jail time for driving with a suspended licence in California.

so therefore it is a case of celebrity backfiring. She actually got worse treatment because of her fame. If you beleive Fox news.

My wife and I saw the coverage of Paris’s ride to jail. It was like the OJ arrest! The funniest part was when they pulled up at a stop light right beside of a circus tent. I almost expected to see about 20 clowns pour out of the car.

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[quote]timsutton60 wrote:
Mick28 wrote:
I know that it’s cool to hate here. Hey, she makes my skin crawl too. She’s an obnoxious, wealthy female who is famous for…well just being famous. And what grinds me the most (for some odd reason) is that she probably never did an hours worth of real work in her life.

But…

I wonder how many people go to jail for a month and a half for driving with a suspended license?

Do I have that right?

Isn’t that all she did?

Admittedly I have not kept up much with the details of the story.

according to Fox news, this sentence is unprecedented in the state of California. No one else has ever gotten that much jail time for driving with a suspended licence in California.

so therefore it is a case of celebrity backfiring. She actually got worse treatment because of her fame. If you beleive Fox news.

My wife and I saw the coverage of Paris’s ride to jail. It was like the OJ arrest! The funniest part was when they pulled up at a stop light right beside of a circus tent. I almost expected to see about 20 clowns pour out of the car.

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Listening to more of the commentary on those video clips on the Fox site, it seems the more important issue is the fact that she was sent home on house arrest based on some “unspecified medical issue” (which I have heard is a stress rash). If she gets sent home for an issue like that, with her level of celebrity, the court system will be flooded with requests of the same.

There are a whole lot of people in jail with REAL illnesses that don’t get sent home.

I honestly don’t “hate” her or really give a shit about her. I hate that society has put her and those who act like her on a pedestal and that you actually have girls who want to be just like that. I mean, we had “preps” in high school or girls who simply thought they were the shit. Most of them are fat as hell with several kids right now. I never envied them and truly don’t now.

Her celebrity may have backfired on her, but serving maybe 12 days in jail isn’t exactly the death penalty. I don’t even understand the tears she’s crying. It isn’t like this is ruining her life or she won’t get into a good college now.

Half a month from now, she’ll be back at home free basing heroine and snorting coke in her several million dollar house with hordes of club kids flocking around her because she now has “street cred”.

I just hate she’ll come out with a book and maybe a rap album.

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You are right! Tragically, this makes her even more famous.

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[quote]scotty144 wrote:
I wonder what her mysterious medical condition is?[/quote]

The fourth story down…yuck, double yuck. (Warning: that links to a smutty gossipy site)

Out of curiosity, would guys who say they’d hit it still want to hit it if that story were true?

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What I don’t get is how so many people were outraged when Paris was sent home, as if it were the biggest travesty of justice ever.

Yet, where was this level of outrage when Robert Blake and O.J. Simpson got off? I saw people actually cheering when O.J. left the courtroom.

Paris isn’t a homocidal maniac, she’s not a danger to society in terms of heineous crimes. She’s too famous and recognizable to ever be a flight risk. She’s a priss, she would never run away from her lap of luxury anyway.

Sure she’s spoiled, a poor example to young girls, a skank and has slept with women’s boyfriends and husbands.

I do feel she does deserve to be in prison for being blatantly disrespectful to the court system in violating her probation and trying to get out of jail.

I’m just sayin’ why are people so much more outraged to the point of media circus over such a relatively minor crime, when there are celebrities getting off who everyone and their brother knows killed innocent people in such cold blooded manners and also these creepy murderers seem to have zero remorse and have went on happily with their lives?

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[quote]chinadoll wrote:
What I don’t get is how so many people were outraged when Paris was sent home, as if it were the biggest travesty of justice ever.

Yet, where was this level of outrage when Robert Blake and O.J. Simpson got off? I saw people actually cheering when O.J. left the courtroom.[/quote]

Do you really want to start up that debate and do you truly not see the difference?

In one case, you have 90’s America used to black men being sent to jail for offenses that other races might get off with probation for experiencing for the first time a black man get off free because of his celebrity status. I don’t think ANYONE was cheering because it was OJ Simpson or because of the specific case. If anyone was cheering, it was because of what I wrote above.

I thought that was clear to even the most undergound living soul.

In the other case, you have a super rich woman who has never had to work a day in her life who is arrested and gets sent home to her million dollar estate for “house arrest” after repeatedly being pulled over for driving with a suspended license after a drunk driving charge.

In both cases, the specifics are probably NOT what got people riled up. I doubt most people even know or care about every detail behind either case.

Both cases, however, point to a much deeper issue in this country that has jack shit to do with OJ or Paris specifically. They are simply the names behind the larger story…the debt paid by the have nots in relation to the haves…the minority vs the majority.

This isn’t the 90’s anymore so it is easy to look back a decade and point out how people should act as if then is no different than right now.

Could OJ really get off in 2007? That is doubtful.

Could Paris be sent to jail 20 years from now? Considering society is bound to change, that will also be unlikely.

You are missing the social relevance of both cases.

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[quote]chinadoll wrote:
scotty144 wrote:
I wonder what her mysterious medical condition is?

The fourth story down…yuck, double yuck. (Warning: that links to a smutty gossipy site)

Out of curiosity, would guys who say they’d hit it still want to hit it if that story were true?[/quote]

This story just keeps getting better and better.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:

In one case, you have 90’s America used to black men being sent to jail for offenses that other races might get off with probation for experiencing for the first time a black man get off free because of his celebrity status. I don’t think ANYONE was cheering because it was OJ Simpson or because of the specific case. If anyone was cheering, it was because of what I wrote above.

I thought that was clear to even the most undergound living soul.
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First of all, I’m a Minority and a Woman…no, I don’t want to argue with ANOTHER MINORITY about the shades of discrimination in society, that argument will go on forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever…

Secondly, I’ve (and many others) never agreed that the O.J. Simpson case was socially relevant, I feel it does a disservice to all minorities that someone who killed innocent people in such a cold blooded manner used race to get off- how is that justice? No, it’s not justice for minorities everywhere, it’s a CELBRITY using his MONEY and MINORITY STATUS to get away with murder. Stupid people bought into that argument without thinking.

It makes minorities look as though we don’t value Truth, Integrity, Justice but rather “use the race card”. O.J. Simpson by far is no martyr for racial equality- I don’t want his case to represent my social cause, no thanks. Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks- yes, they stand for all that’s right, equality and the like…but O.J. Simpson, no, IMHO, he’s a cold blooded murderer- white person, black person, yellow person, purple person, murdering people is still wrong.

That’s all I’m going to say about race in this thread or anywhere, I don’t care to wear Minority Status on my Sleeve. We’re all humans and each and every one of us have the same fundamental human rights.

I’m looking more at the LAWS OF OUR LAND. I know people hate Paris for her priviledge and she should pay the price for disobeying the law. But at the same time (setting aside the OJ case because race was not my point) because of her status as a very popular Pop Culture Icon as well as her priviledge, people are so much more outraged at her case than say Robert Blake getting off on his murder charges.

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[quote]chinadoll wrote:

Secondly, I’ve (and many others) never agreed that the O.J. Simpson case was socially relevant, I feel it does a disservice to all minorities that someone who killed innocent people in such a cold blooded manner used race to get off- how is that justice? No, it’s not justice for minorities everywhere, it’s a CELBRITY using his MONEY and MINORITY STATUS to get away with murder. Stupid people bought into that argument without thinking.[/quote]

I don’t disagree with you. I never wrote that I personally was outside cheering. If someone kills someone else, they deserve to be in jail for it. I personally wouldn’t want to be Johnny Cochran right now as he debates his defense on why he shouldn’t be sent to the underworld.

“All I did was make sure I was financially well…please don’t send me to Hell!”

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It makes minorities look as though we don’t value Truth, Integrity, Justice but rather “use the race card”. O.J. Simpson by far is no martyr for racial equality- I don’t want his case to represent my social cause, no thanks. Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks- yes, they stand for all that’s right, equality and the like…but O.J. Simpson, no, IMHO, he’s a cold blooded murderer- white person, black person, yellow person, purple person, murdering people is still wrong. [/quote]

Are you taking this stance because you think I agree with everything that minorities as a whole get branded with? That couldn’t be farther from the truth. However, I am also not in the dark enough to not realize the perceptions of others.

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I’m looking more at the LAWS OF OUR LAND. I know people hate Paris for her priviledge and she should pay the price for disobeying the law. But at the same time (setting aside the OJ case because race was not my point) because of her status as a very popular Pop Culture Icon as well as her priviledge, people are so much more outraged at her case than say Robert Blake getting off on his murder charges. [/quote]

I think people in general are jealous creatures. They see someone with a nicer car, better clothes or bigger muscles and the first word out of most people’s mouths is, “bitch”. Some people are born haters. They hate to see anyone else be successful. I’m not even rich and I get that from some people. I think when it is all said and done, that alone is at the base of why you hear people griping so much about Paris.

Those with higher goals in life and who plan on not being mediocre forever probably don’t care too much about Paris aside from wondering why she is on the news so damn much.

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I strongly support the incarceration of Ms. Hilton. Grab your ankles Bitch!

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[quote]chinadoll wrote:
What I don’t get is how so many people were outraged when Paris was sent home, as if it were the biggest travesty of justice ever.

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Paris isn’t a homocidal maniac, she’s not a danger to society in terms of heineous crimes. [/quote]

I don’t know much about the pertaining laws in the US, but I consider reckless driving when drunk a danger to society. As stated before, that’s enough for me to endorse a jail sentence.

She got another chance, probation, and blew it. Then, after finally getting what she deserves, she is allowed to go home again for some paltry reason (thanks for the link by the way :D).

No, I wasn’t outraged when she was sent home. Basically, I couldn’t care less about the spoiled brat. I was gratified to hear that she finally had to take her punishment, punishment that was long overdue in my opinion, though, and it would be the same if it wasn’t Paris but some random other person.

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[quote]michael2507 wrote:
chinadoll wrote:
What I don’t get is how so many people were outraged when Paris was sent home, as if it were the biggest travesty of justice ever.

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Paris isn’t a homocidal maniac, she’s not a danger to society in terms of heineous crimes.

I don’t know much about the pertaining laws in the US, but I consider reckless driving when drunk a danger to society. As stated before, that’s enough for me to endorse a jail sentence.

She got another chance, probation, and blew it. Then, after finally getting what she deserves, she is allowed to go home again for some paltry reason (thanks for the link by the way :D).

No, I wasn’t outraged when she was sent home. Basically, I couldn’t care less about the spoiled brat. I was gratified to hear that she finally had to take her punishment, punishment that was long overdue in my opinion, though, and it would be the same if it wasn’t Paris but some random other person.[/quote]

That’s pretty much how I feel about it also.