Here's some nice pics of the jailbird:

http://starbulletin.com/2006/04/26/news/story01.html

yep....i had a friend that got 30 days for being stupid and breaking into a store when he was 18....it was just at the county lock-up....not a big deal in the grand scheme of things.

WHOA....there's a MAJOR spoiler in that article!!

I didn't read the article, but looking at some of those pictures, you can tell she is taking this whole thing as a joke. She doesn't even seem to be embarrased by everything that is going on. It's like a badge of courage to her.

Oh, and it's now down to 4 days in the cushy jail:


Chris

That photo is not the spoiler, she was having problems with her allergies (she is allergic to police officers taking her into custody).

Chris

And your purpose for underlining?

Look, people on TV, in the media, in print always get prison and jail interchanged. Just like they do with probation and parole. They are not the same things.

Which is true in most cases. There are, however, quirky times where a person can serve less time than a year in prison, and times were a sentenced felony can be placed in jail.

My point being, people use the terms incorrectly, and I'm on a mission to fix it!

so what? she got credit for a day served, just like thousands of other people do all the time

I really don't see what the big deal about all this is.

I understand. I do think that the question of conditions and safety is the biggest practical consideration, which is why I jumped there.

I'm all for people understanding the difference. Heck, I'd love to see people understand all of the complexities. For instance, I think the public would like the death penalty a lot less if they understood how miserable life is for people placed in supermax prisons. Death is getting off easy.

In that article, it states Watros registered a .1 which was perfectly legal a few years ago. Thanks to MADD, our ability to drive with alcohol has changed.

The ability (or inability) for people to drive while under the influence has not changed, the legality of it has. If you don't like the new legal limit you're free to create a group, solicit membership, gain influence through numbers and contact your local Congressman/ woman and do your best to get the law changed. Might I suggest a name for the group: Drunk-drivers Under the Misled Belief their Actions are Safe for Society.

Yeah, but does that have a catchy acronym like MADD?

The legality of it changed which should mean that the blood alcohol level at which one can safely drive must have somehow changed. Of course, that couldn't be farther from the truth. As far as your suggestion of creating a group to change the law, it would be impossible to compete against a group of "non profit" mothers working with a government agency aimed at producing the largest amount of revenue. If I did create a group, the name I would go with is: Drivers that believe they drive drunk better than 90% of all drivers.

I'll give her props for choosing 4 extra days in jail instead of 240 community service hours. I'd do the same thing. It looks like she'll get some reading done in there.

I don't think she should be given jail time.

Here's what they should do:

Instead of hauling her to do her four days in the county lock-up, they lead her outside to the front of the courthouse.

There, they have an old-style pillory that she's put into.

After she's securely locked into it, her pants and underwear are pulled down to her ankels, and big wooden paddle is hung on the stockade.

Then, for the rest of the day, anyone who wants to is free to pick up the paddle and lay a couple of good swats to her bare ass.

At the end of the day, her pants are pulled back up, she's released from the pillory, and sent on her merry way.

She should be forced to wait 3 weeks between each new episode of her favorite TV show.

In a perfect world, you'd be right. We don't live in anything close to a perfect world where making laws is concerned, though. You don't want to see how that is done. It's as nasty as making sausage. This isn't the first area where it took 5, 6, 7, or 8 bites of the apple to get the law to where it should be.

You say that but have yet to explain it. Please enlighten us. I thought Josh and I were on the right track.

You're not looking hard enough.

I think he was just suggesting that sometimes the system gets really screwed up and somebody gets released from prison before a year is out or somebody ends up getting multiple terms of months and therefore ends up in jail for like a year and a half. I don't really think there is anything to explain other than the fact that sometimes weird things happen.

But that would punish all fans of "The L Word"!

MRod is just looking to up her street cred.