When Nicole Richie loaded up on pot and Vicodin and drove headfirst into high-speed oncoming motorway traffic last year, she probably didn't stop to think of the 82 hellish minutes she'd have to spend in jail as a result of her actions.

Yes, you read that right. 82 minutes. While we were asleep last night, Nicole Richie went to jail for face punishment for her DUI charge. And before we'd even had time to dribble enough onto our pillow to make it uncomfortably stick to our face, Nicole Richie was a free woman again. Again, you could see this as preferential treatment for celebrities or a damning indictment of Los Angeles's overcrowded jails, but there's also a chance that Nicole Richie was released from jail after 82 minutes so that she wouldn't get enough material together to publish her prison diaries. If that's the case, there's a bouquet of flowers headed right for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department with love from hecklerspray.

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