Mitch Sneed at Large

We have all heard the stories of spoiled celebs going to the big house and complaining about how bad things are.
We heard about Martha Stewart complaining about the food and how Paris Hilton couldn’t stand it for even one full day.
But you have to read the story that Media General’s Stephen Thompson of the Tampa Tribune penned in today’s edition about Hulk Hogan’s son Nick who is now doing time for an Aug. 26 high-speed crash that left a friend with brain damage.

By STEPHEN THOMPSON
MEDIA GENERAL NEWS SERVICE
CLEARWATER—Shortly after he was put in a cell at Pinellas County Jail, Nick Bollea started complaining about the accommodations to his parents in telephone conversations, often breaking into tears, according to copies of the conversations made by the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office.
“I have to get out of here,” the 17-year-old tells his mother, Linda Bollea. “I can’t deal with this for eight months.”
The call was made in the early evening, on the same day Bollea pleaded no contest to a charge of reckless driving involving serious injury. On Aug. 26, he crashed a car into a tree in Clearwater, leaving his sole passenger, Iraq war veteran John Graziano, with brain damage.
Bollea was placed in a cell by himself, one roughly 8 1/2 feet wide by 16 1/2 feet long. That kind of arrangement is made for all juveniles who are sentenced as adults to spend time in the jail or are awaiting trial to face felony charges.
Bollea says his cell is half the size of his bathroom at home, and he repeatedly complains about there being no windows.
“They put me in a crazy ward,” he says.
He takes a few shots at his attorney, Kevin Hayslett, saying that if knew he was going to be in a windowless cell by himself, he would rather have gone to trial. His charge carried a potential sentence of up to five years.
Bollea said Hayslett gave him the impression that he would be in minimum security and able to play cards. His mother counters that if he were put in with the general population, maybe people would beat him up because he is a celebrity.
“Don’t’ cry, Baby,” says Linda Bollea, who sometimes swears and wonders aloud whether what they say to one another will be on the local cable television station “like … everything else around here.”
Inmates repeatedly are warned that their calls may be recorded.
“It’s so much worse than you could ever imagine,” Nick Bollea says. “This is like a state prison. I’m all by myself.”
When his father, Terry Bollea, also known as Hulk Hogan, takes the receiver, he at one point tells his boy to “man up.”
Reporter Stephen Thompson can be reached at (727) 451-2336 or .

Incredible story. I have to see if those tapes are on the Web. It will be required listening for my daily giggles.
This whining comes from a kid who has never had a job and has lived a celebrity lifestyle because he is on a reality show made possible because his father was a professional wrestler.
This is a kid who had four tickets in the first year he had his license, three times having been clocked at speeds in excess of 100 mph.
Man up?
How about grow up. Jail isn’t a vacation. Be happy you are alone. Otherwise, you may need your Daddy to watch your back from Bruno and the boys.