Servicing Naomi Campbell
So it seems that Naomi Campbell has been sentenced to 5 days community service for throwing a telephone at her housekeeper.
I can't believe that we live in a world where the hired help can sue the rich and powerful and win US$350 in medical expenses. If Naomi can't throw a phone at her probably untrustworthy and almost certainly unhygienic maid, what's the point of having heaps of money and stuff? What will the little people have to aspire to if they know that their betters can be brought down to the level of the mob and trodden underfoot like so much scum?
Social inferiors have for years been getting away with virtual murder. What about the Russell Crowe telephone incident? How can that hotel desk guy live with himself knowing that he publicly humiliated and denigrated Russell through an act of mindless legal retribution? That guy should be happy that Russell deigned to throw anything at him, and should have thanked Mr Crowe (who am I kidding? Sir Russell) for such a wonderfully artistic gash and/or bruise.
In Naomi's case, I blame her lawyers. Surely when representing a celebrity client they should thumb their noses at mere courts and not even respond to summonses. Surely.
If Naomi's housekeeper didn't like her working conditions, she should have gone out and got another job, not taken her employer to court. “Just get a new job” is the methodology the Australian government has been promoting for the past 12 months or so. No toilet paper in the toilets? Go and find a job where the AWA grants you permission to have toilet paper, or an AWA that lets you have a toilet, or an AWA that gives you the right to shit at work. If you can shit at work, consider yourself lucky. It's a privilege that your contract bequeaths, not a right.
In closing your honour, there is no room for slack-jawed alleged jeans thieves in this world, and a legal system that protects them is setting itself up ripe for the changin'. Next you'll be wanting celebrities and millionaires to pay for stuff like restaurant meals, movie tickets, overseas holidays and forklift licences. I blame Judge Judy for this.