Well, I usually leave the celebrity news gossip up to Gerri at Absolutely True; however a newspaper article caught my eye (and you know how painful that can be). Keifer Sutherland was released from jail today after serving 48 days for drunk-driving.
As I read the article I sort of mis-remembered a few things. I had thought that Paris had only served a day or two in jail. I did a little digging and soon discovered my mistake. Paris Hilton served 22 days in jail, Lindsay Lohan served 84 minutes and Nicole Ritchie served 82 minutes. Originally I had thought that maybe the female stars had done something in order to get-out-of-jail-almost-free. But the Paris statistic throws that conspiracy out the window. Unless Paris tried to do the same thing as the other two and yet was somehow not as successful. Now, I can’t imagine what sort of “service” young female stars could possibly have to offer to a judge in order to get lenient sentencing. It’s not as if any of them know how to cook or clean. Maybe they could ”polish a candlestick”; but you wouldn’t think that would be sufficient. Anyway, I just think they might have come to some sort of quid-pro-quo arrangement. Poor Keifer though had to serve nearly seven weeks. I’ll bet his girlfriend will be pretty happy when he comes home to her though; because he spent his time there working in the laundry.
I tired to find out what the average sentence for a drunk-driver, who is also a repeat offender, would be. Unfortunately, the answer didn’t come up on the first page of the Google results, so I lost interest.
The other thing I got to wondering about though; did he get his driver’s licence suspended? If so, how is he going to drive around when they’re filming 24? That’s always a pretty important part of the show. I guess due to writer’s strike this might not be a problem.
Here in NB, you usually get a lot longer sentence than that. But, I guess money talks.