Heh, first read the conviction as:
50 hours of community service at the Hangover Recreation Commission.
Sure would have been a novel AA initiative!
Yeah, the general reaction to brownouts is folks getting browned off, as in a dropout in the middle of cooking the Christmas turkey, the roast is not!
A few Christmases back gave Mum a straw/wicker donkey/burro figurine/piñata a bit like this: 😛

Wonder how it’s doing now.