Nicole Polizzi, aka 'Jersey Shore's Snooki, pleads guilty to disrupting beachgoers, fined $500 and given community service

09/08/2010 by Corinne Heller

Nicole Polizzi, aka Snooki, has been fined about $500 and ordered by a judge, who called her a "Lindsay Lohan wannabe", to serve one day of community service after she pleaded guilty to interfering with "the public's right to find enjoyment on the beach" while filming Jersey Shore in July.

"I would definitely like to apologize to the Seaside Heights cops," Polizzi told a judge in a New Jersey court on Wednesday. "I was very embarrassed. This is not like me. It was not scripted."

The 22-year-old was booked on July 30, a day after the reality show's second season premiere aired on MTV. Polizzi's attorney said that while filming the raunchy MTV reality series, an intoxicated Polizzi stumbled into some people on the Seaside Heights beach and used loud language. Polizzi said she didnt remember much of the arrest.

"This is an anomaly in an otherwise well-lived life," he said. "She has a love of animals, she has a love of community service. This was a bad day."

He said that last Sunday, Polizzi volunteered at the local zoo, adding: "Seeing her and the caring that she has for these creatures, these abused animals, cleaning out their cages, tending to them and showing them so much love is a testament to her character."

The judge ordered Polizzi to pay $533 and serve two days of community service working with animals, since she seemed to have "an affinity" to them. He added that her day at the zoo would count as part of time served and dismissed charges of disorderly conduct and constituting a public nuisance.

"If this was your idea of having a good time it appears your recent celebrity has apparently affected your judgement in this matter," Judge Damian Murray told Polizzi.

"Your actions, I don't know, you seem to be acting like a Lindsay Lohan wannabe in this manner," he said. "Going through life rude, profane, obnoxious and self-indulgent is not the way you want to live your life. Hopefully this incident will impress upon you that there are consenquences to your actions.

Lohan recently ended shortened stints in jail and rehab for violating her probation in a 2007 drunken driving case.

MTV has said Jersey Shore, which documents the antics of several party-loving, self-proclaimed "Guidos and Guidettes," will return for a third season.

Polizzi, who had been denied an official request to trademark her nickname because it is too similar to that of a cat in a children's book, made headlines last year after the posting of an internet video that showed her getting punched in the face by a 24-year-old high school gym teacher during a confrontation at a bar.

Polizzi's father has said he found it difficult to understand why audiences were drawn to his daughter's wild antics.