Sometimes the urge to make the world a better place comes gradually over the course of a number of years, but for Snoop Dogg it tends to come right after airport security catch you trying to sneak a deadly weapon on a plane.
The kerfuffle over Snoop Dogg waltzing onto a plane last year with a 21-inch collapsible police baton has finally come to an end, with Snoop being sentenced to 160 hours community service and a $10,000 donation to charity. Clearly relieved that the ending to his case will benefit not only him but the wider community around him, Snoop Dogg has revealed that he's going to spend that 160 hour sentence and the $10,000 on a public service announcement for his new charity, the Snoop Dogg Apparently You Aren't Even Allowed To Take Giant Battering Sticks On Planes Any More Fund, where $9,800 will be used to pay Pharrell Williams for standing in the background bobbing up and down and saying "Yessirs" twice.
Community service is probably the best punishment for a crime that a celebrity can receive, for all manner of reasons. Firstly, being sentenced to community service means that the celebrity can reconnect with normal people in a way that they wouldn't have otherwise been able to, ultimately keeping them more grounded. And secondly, we get to watch the celebrity spazzing out like a tit with our own eyes whereas we'd have missed it if they'd been sent to jail. It's a win-win.
And it's a win-win that Snoop Dogg is about to experience because all his legal difficulties have finally come to an end. There was a period of time where hardly a day would pass without Snoop Dogg getting up to some sort of mischief, be it driving around in a car full of guns and drugs or driving around in another car full of guns and drugs or being so naughty that England banned him forever. But possibly the most serious of Snoop Dogg's arrests came when he tried taking a police baton onto a plane, possibly because he wanted to protect himself against flight attendants offering him snacks in an overtly aggressive way.
At the time Snoop Dogg was charged with possession of a deadly weapon – a charge that carries a maximum sentence of three years in jail – and he pleaded not guilty. But now he's changed his mind and decided he was jolly well guilty after all, and Snoop Dogg has been let off with a slap on the wrist. But quite a long slap on the wrist, as E! Online reports:
Snoop, whose real name is Calvin Broadus, was sentenced to three years' informal probation and 160 hours of community service and was ordered to make a charitable contribution in the amount of $10,000, according to the O.C. District Attorney's Office. "We are very pleased with the outcome," attorney Donald Etra said after court Thursday. "Snoop's goal is to make music, not make court appearances." After he has completed his service, Snoop will be eligible in one year to have the charge reduced to a misdemeanor.
That's 160 hours of community service on top of the 800 hours community service that Snoop was sentenced to in April for all the palaver with the cars and the guns and the drugs. 960 hours of community service might seem like a lot to you, but Snoop will be able to improve the quality of his local community no end if he puts as much effort into it as he does lazily mumbling for 35 seconds two-thirds of the way through songs by the Pussycat Dolls.
And let's not forget that this isn't just good news for Snoop Dogg, either. We're sure that Busta Rhymes is watching this news with an eager eye hoping that all four of his forthcoming trials will end up with community service orders too. Admittedly the earth will have been swallowed up by the sun long before his sentence ends if that's the case, but a man should never give up hope.
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JoelB says
If I had a 21 inch weapon I wouldn’t be sneaking it aboard a plane. I’ld have it obviously bulging in my pants hoping to impress the flight attendants.
Opps wrong thread, this belongs in TV Review – The World’s Biggest Penis, Channel Four. (Is this normal?)