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The Celebrity Exception Rule Rides Again

Any Ferris Bueller's Day Off fans here?  Yep, loved that movie.  Actor Jeffrey Jones was appropriately stalker-y and slick enough to play Principal Ed Rooney.  The end scene was classic. Anyhow, Jones ran into a little skirmish with the law a few years back when he was pinched for child porn and given 5 years probation as well as counseling and sex offender registration status.  Ouch, right?  You or I would probably get jail time - - and not country club jail but pound you in the ass jail ( TM Office Space ).  As part of his harsh sentence, Jones was required to keep up with his sex offender registration . . . which he chose not to do.  Guess he didn't like it.  So, rather than getting 3 years in jail (again, which you or I would easily get), because failing to keep up with  your registration is a felony , Jones got 250 hours of community service and 3 years probation.  Really?  Why are celebrities somehow given excepti...