Moments before Robert Ray Huizenga won his bid to end house arrest for felony DUI more than five months early, prosecutor Lanie Bandell summed up my feelings precisely.

"He got spared going to Florida state prison — he should be thankful," Bandell told Broward Circuit Judge Michael Kaplan on Friday.

Instead, the son of Dolphins co-owner and billionaire entrepreneur H. Wayne Huizenga lamented the hardships of being mostly confined to his luxurious Fort Lauderdale digs since January.