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Boy George's most notable achievement of late was his ill-advised move of calling the NYPD to his Manhattan apartment for a burglary, upon which he was immediately arrested for having 13 bags of blow sitting around in the open. George was offered a plea bargain that would only charge him with false robbery; he was then required to do five days of community service. It was a cushy arrangement, though not cushy enough, as he refused to involve himself in embarrassing, public leaf-gathering duties:

Defense lawyer Louis Freeman had argued in court earlier this month that the singer, whose real name is George O'Dowd, was hoping to avoid the humiliation of dragging a rake around a city park and wanted to work with an AIDS charity. [...]

"If you do community service you go out that door," [Criminal Court Judge Anthony Ferrara] said pointing to the exit. "But I'm going to make you a promise. If you don't do this community service, you go through the back door," he said, threatening the singer with jail.

We applaud the judge's hard line approach towards his high-profile felon, though despite all his tough-talking, door-related justice, we still can't help but feel that perhaps George is getting the kid glove treatment. A far more fitting punishment to raking leaves would have been 100 hours of forced bathroom attendant labor at any celebrity-infested nightclub, where the former pop star would learn the true definition of humility handing out paper towels to more famous cokeheads, with the added degradation of having to nod along politely when Paris Hilton or Lindsay Lohan make small talk about their intentions to cover "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me."