Pal Joey - I Think Not

Joey Buttafuoco is back in the news and back in jail again. He surrendered Monday to begin serving a one-year jail term for illegally possessing ammunition. The ammunition charge stemmed from an August 2005 search of Buttafuoco's home by the Los Angeles County Probation Department. He was on probation for Auto Insurance fraud at the time.

For those of you that don’t remember or are too young to remember Joey Buttafuoco, he gained notoriety for his affair with a 16 year old High School girl named Amy Fisher (AKA “The Long Island Lolita”) in 1991/1992. He was 18 years older than Amy. Joey was married at the time and Amy didn’t want to share him with his wife. He must have been one hell of a stud. Therefore Amy shoots the wife in the face at the Long Island Buttafuoco residence. The wife lives and Amy goes to prison for attempted murder and Joey gets off severing only 4 months for statutory rape. There have been a couple of made for TV Movies about their affair.

I remember thinking at the time. “Boy did he get off easy”. I had a High School friend that was bonking a 16 year old; he was 19 at the time. Her parents pressed charges for statutory rape and he spent 14 months in the Joliet Correctional Facility. His original sentence was 18 months. That’s why girls under the age of 18 years old are rightfully called “Jail Bait”.

Although I am known to date women much younger than me (some of my friends jokingly say that I hang around the local High Schools searching for future lovers), I haven’t been with a woman under the “Legal Limit” since I was 17 years old. And she was my first love.

Buttafuoco is looking at an additional 5 years in prison for the violation of his probation. I sincerely hope that he will get what he so justly deserves. In my opinion he is a Scum Bag that will never change for the better.

The Beach Bum