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Noted Scumbag to do Hard Time in … Swiss Chalet?

Posted by JAZZ SHAW, Assistant Editor in International, Society.
Nov 25th, 2009 | Comments

Just in time for Thanksgiving, guess who is back in the news? Yes, it’s Roman Polanski, noted movie producer, escaped felon and pedophile. (Hat tip to Ed at Hot Air.) It seems that old Roman has ponied up $4.5M and gotten himself out on bail. But don’t worry about whether or not justice is being served… he’ll still be doing hard time. In his Swiss chalet.

Bail has reportedly been set at 3m euros (£2.7m; $4.5m) for the film director.

While on bail, Polanski would have to be kept under house arrest and electronic monitoring at his Swiss chalet, according to Associated Press news agency.

And really, why wouldn’t you let the guy out on bail? I mean, it’s not as if he’s a flight risk or anything. Ok, sure… he’s been on the run from the law for more than thirty years, but that’s no reason to think he’d skip town now to avoid prosecution, right?

I wonder what kind of cell mates one runs into in your average millionaire’s Swiss chalet? I’ve heard rumors that the conditions there are, in fact, so brutal that they don’t even put little marshmallows in your cocoa. Oh, the horror.

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Sammy Benoit

Maybe they could staple the electronic monitoring device to his private parts

roro80

We all should be so lucky to spend the winter in a Swiss Chalet -- kind of makes your head explode that this scuzzy dude got out on bail at all. I'm getting extremely nostalgic just thinking of raclette and cherry liquor next to a fire in a chalet on the hillside outside of Verbier...

Father_Time

I learned long ago that the Swiss can be readily bought. So it appears that is exactly what has happened. One wonders just why the Swiss turned on Polanski after all these years. Yep money talks and BS walks. So do sexual predators with money.

StockBoySF

I believe in trying anything (within reason) once. Since I've never visited a criminal in prison, nor stayed in prison I can kill two birds with one stone if I visit Polanski and stay in his chalet... I mean prison.... Just to see what horrible conditions exist in prisons. I'd even be willing to stay for two weeks to get the full flavor of prison life.

battybat

Roman Polanski is a poor slob, Swiss Chalet or no. I would'nt like to be in the dirtbag's shoes, going down in history as a sexual predator of children. That is uneffaceable ugliness for all the rest of time. I do hope he serves out his final years in prison, though, where he'll live prey to sexual predators much like himself. See how he likes it when it's from the receiving end.

selfhelp

This guy deserves to have his private parts removed. I have a thirteen year old daughter and I would think seriously about using the ancient remedy of "self help" if a pervert like Polanski performed the same acts on my daughter.

DLS

Marc Rich's "cell-mate"?

DLS

I can also envision Roro poisoning Polanski's fondue...

Jazz

I'm still wondering if the best thing would be spending the rest of his life in a cell with Bernie Madoff. After a few years of Bernie trying to sell him hedge fund shares, he'd probably just hang himself with a bed sheet.

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