Tsk Tsk, Paris

Paris Hilton was arrested last September 7th after weaving down a Hollywood street in her Mercedes-Benz. She pleaded no contest to charges of alcohol-related reckless driving and yesterday received a sentence that includes 36 months of probation and $1500 in fines and penalty assessments.

Hilton could reduce her probation to 24 months if she agrees to do 40 hours of community service. How a week’s worth of work reduces one’s probation by a year is a bit of a mystery to us, but then such are the vagaries of the California penal system. Either way, it’s doubtful Hilton would consent to pick up trash along the road for a week wearing an orange jumpsuit — unless The Convicted Life is on our broadcast horizons.

Shortly after her arrest, Hilton was interviewed on Los Angeles’s KIIS-FM radio station. She claims she’d been working on a music video all day and hadn’t eaten anything, then attended a fundraiser where she’d had one margarita. By the time she left she was starving and so desperate to get to In-N-Out Burger that she might have been “speeding a little bit.”

Given all Hilton’s done in the past, her $1500 fine doesn’t seem nearly high enough, but there is one small consolation: It’s a lot to pay for a hamburger.