10.21.09 IT SEEMED LIKE A GOOD IDEA AT THE TIME

Every season, the winner of “Big Brother” gets a $500,000 prize. This is a substantial amount of money. You can buy a nice house with that. You can live frugally and not work for a couple years. You can invest it and ensure your children go to the finest private schools. Or you can illegally buy thousands and thousands of oxycodone pills and attempt to sell them on the street.

Try to guess which of those options “Big Brother 9″ winner Adam Jasinski chose.

Federal prosecutors said Jasinski was arrested Saturday after he flew to Boston and showed the witness a sock containing two plastic bags filled with [2000 pills of] oxycodone, a powerful painkiller that is a popular street drug because of its euphoric effects.

As agents tried to arrest Jasinski at a strip mall in North Reading, he struggled and threw the sock under a car parked nearby. [AP]

Jasinski faces up to 20 years in prison and a $1 million fine. But he’ll be okay. He can make a nice down payment on that fine, and I’m sure the confinement of “Big Brother” offered many lessons that are useful in federal prison. I’m assuming, of course, that he had to shiv several of his castmates to win. I never actually watched the show.