Gallery Owner Sent To Jail Because She Sucks

After repeated warnings to stop serving her party-goer/clients drinks, gallery owner Ruth Vered was picked up by East Hampton police and arrested:

She dismissed the East End cops as big-muscled toughs with too much time on their hands.

"I told them I've been doing this since before they were born," fumed Vered, 67. "They have some nerve."

She was taken away from the wine-and-cheese shindig in front of her granddaughter and the 200 elbow-rubbing fashionistas and socialites gathered at Vered Gallery for the opening of an exhibit by celebrity photographer Steven Klein.

East Hampton Mayor Paul Rickenbach said cops were just enforcing state alcohol rules.

"It's standard operating procedure for the police," Rickenbach said. "It's not something that's new and out of the blue at all."

I'm pretty much for any type of enforcement that puts away anyone that goes by the handle of *fashionista* or *socialite*. First of all, wine and cheese parties are gayer than a toothpick, and anyone that sports the glasses of the rubber-neck geek in the picture should be rounded up, thrown in a pit of vipers and then lit on fire.

That picture is so great, I'm still giggling.