What Not to Do With Reality TV Prize Winnings

Don't invest your winnings in oxycodone for resale. Or at least, don't sell it to an undercover DEA agent.

That is what the DEA accuses Adam Jasinski of doing with his Big Brother 9 TV winnings. Jasinski apparently took his winnings and rolled it into oxycodone, then became the 21st century equivalence of the 19th century traveling medicine show, going up and down the East Coast selling it.

Now he finds himself with a court-appointed lawyer because all his money is in pill form. He should have followed his fellow Reality "star" Richard Hatch from survivor, who showed that if you break the law, break it by evading taxes on your winnings. Then you can use your winnings to hire a decent lawyer, or at least one of the not-court-appointed variety.

Of course, with the jail term for selling 2000 oxycodone pills about 20 years and the US Attorney's office's near undefeated track record in drug prosecutions, Jasinski won't be heard from anytime soon. And by then, Reality TV will hopefully be a long lost memory.

Adding insult to injury to Jasinski, given the ratings for Big Brother, most people will know Jasinski as "that idiot who turned his winnings into Federal prison" as opposed to "that idiot who won Big Brother".