# Happy Schadenfreude for Mr. 18330-424 **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 4, 2008, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-schadenfreude-for-mr-18330-424/440098 "2008-03-04T22:18:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-schadenfreude-for-mr-18330-424/440098/1 "2008-03-04T22:18:34Z")
Life peer Mr. Conrad Black goes to [jail](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7275494.stm). Now I don’t know this guy from Adam, but I love this story. "Before his six-and-a-half year sentence for fraud and obstruction of justice last year, multi-millionaire Black and his wife, journalist Barbara Amiel, had led what jurors heard described as a lifestyle of almost unbelievable excess. " and "Mr Bower said: "I predict he will have major problems adjusting to the idea that other people can tell him what to do. The important thing about Conrad Black is that he has never felt that he needed to obey the rules. One of the reasons he stole so much money was that he genuinely felt the rules did not apply to him." Excuse me as I cackle maniacally and thoroughly enjoy myself over this. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-schadenfreude-for-mr-18330-424/440098/2 "2008-03-04T22:21:51Z")
I wonder what would be the best prison job for him? I think he should start by spooning out gruel in the food line. And lap dancing for smokes, i can see that. ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-schadenfreude-for-mr-18330-424/440098/3 "2008-03-04T22:37:50Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim] I wonder what would be the best prison job for him? I think he should start by spooning out gruel in the food line. And lap dancing for smokes, i can see that. [/QUOTE] Handwashing the underthings of the anally incontinent, perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-schadenfreude-for-mr-18330-424/440098/4 "2008-03-04T23:22:46Z")
The headline in today’s Toronto Star, the largest newspaper in the city, was, “_Lord_ 18330-424”. 😃 This is a guy who was a media tycoon, Canada’s Rupert Murdoch, until he bought the Telegraph in the UK and discovered he could get knighted. Okay, I’ll move to the UK, become a Life Peer, and sit in the – ooh – _House of Lords!_ Minor detail: Canada does not let citizens get foreign peerships. No big deal; I’ll give up my Canadian citizenship, the place is just a few acres of snow and doesn’t mean that much to me anyways. Okay, fine, don’t let the door hit you on the way out. But what’s this? I’m in trouble in the States? Better go back to Canada where I’ll be safe! Sorry, bub, we’re not letting you back in. It’s off to jail with you. My opinion of Barbara Amiel went way down when I found out she was dating this jerk. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-schadenfreude-for-mr-18330-424/440098/5 "2008-03-05T00:58:45Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim] I wonder what would be the best prison job for him? I think he should start by spooning out gruel in the food line. [/QUOTE] I’m sure **casdave** and **Bear\_Nenno** will be along shortly to tell us that in prison, that’s a significant privilege. 🙂 This guy spent **millions** that weren’t his. Let him clean the latrines.