British College Kid Gets 6 Months in Prison for Looting $5 Worth of Bottled Water Adrian Chen · 08/11/11 12:58PM Now that the horrible "unending nights of chaos" part of the British riots has started to subside, here comes the insane "unhinged overreacting" part. A judge just threw a six-month prison sentence at a 23-year-old with no previous record in prison.