BRITNEY HAS BEEN RELEASED

The Los Angeles Times is exclusively reporting that Britney Spears has been released from a psychiatric ward at the UCLA Medical Center today after nearly a week of treatment.

Unlike the spectacle surrounding her trip to the Westwood medical facility last week, she slipped out with relatively little fanfare. A private security detail escorted her (away).Her release comes after Spears' mother, in court documents, said her daughter's self-described friend and manager (Sam Lufti) exerted near-total control over the singer, cutting her phone lines, taking away her cellphone chargers, disabling her vehicles and grinding up pills to place in her food. Spears' mother alleges in a restraining order against the man.Spears' mother made the allegations in a request for a restraining order against the manager, Sam Lutfi. The restraining order, approved Friday and released by the court Tuesday, bars Lutfi from coming within 250 yards of the singer.

Wait, did he actually cut her phone lines?  Physically cut them?  That's so cartoony, like he did it while wearing a black stovepipe hat and twirling his mustache.  If he hadn't been stopped would he have tied a lady to the train tracks with those big thick ropes?  Yes.  Yes I think it's clear he would.