Sure, why not? I mean...have you ever seen the footage of a clearly exhausted Matt Damon coming into LAX with his wife and kids---and quietly, but tiredly, asking TMZ video and the paparazzi to please leave them alone on this pass because: kids and tired?

It's hard to be sympathetic all the celebrities--they want attention and then they don't. But everyone who was hunted by cameras all the time---well, why not ask your agent to get the studio to pay for this?

I agree that a disturbed person with more power is a bigger problem. To go straight for the Godwin's Law example, there have probably been people more evil and messed up than Hitler in the history of Earth, but very few had the power and opportunity to act on that evil to the magnitude he did.

However, you brought up magnitude of problems and compared the two as "equally disturbed". The Republican Congressman (with admittedly more power/influence) "body-slammed" a reporter. The Democrat nutcase shot up 6 people and (I think) didn't manage to kill any of them, but not for lack of trying.

We don't really know what was going on in either persons' heads when they did these things. What led up to them, etc. Maybe the reporter had been doggedly following and questioning/harassing the Congressman to such an extent that he snapped. Happens quite a lot with paparazzi, and we tend to give the celebrity targets a lot of benefit of the doubt in those cases. The only long-term result of the bodyslam incident that I know of is that the reporter's glasses were broken. Glasses can be repaired or replaced. Bullet wounds are rather tougher to fix.

However my main point isn't to get into a dick-measuring contest about who did more harm or who is more fucked up. My point is that the person entirely responsible in either incident is known. GOP Congressman physically assaulted a reporter of his own volition. Democrat nutcase shot up that baseball practice of his own volition. Those individuals are 100% responsible for what they did, no matter who or what they might claim drove them to their actions. Just like it isn't Ozzy Osbourne's fault when some nutter offs themselves after listening to his song "Suicide Solution", or John Carmack's fault for Columbine even though Klebold and Harris liked playing Doom.

Dang paparazzis! Go away!


*bugs

yea, can you imagine what Attenborough's 'Life on Earth' would be like with 6 paparazzi photographers hovering around each and every one of his nature subjects

Pretty amazing fish though

Damn Paparazzi!

Nope. I still don't see it, sorry.
There's still no reason for them to do anything about your scenario. News organizations do that kind of filming daily with no problem, so the filming's obviously not a problem. It wasn't a 'filming restricted' area, so there's no reason to investigate why he's filming at all, other than they don't want to be filmed, which is still not a reason to contact him.
Do I see a reason the cops might be nervous about him in your scenario, yes. Do I see a reason in that scenario for them to break the law and arrest him, or even detain him? Absolutely not.

Here, he broke no law, and they had no indication he had, so they really had no reason to contact him at all, and certainly no reason to continue once he informed them he's availing himself of his legal rights and not talking to them (which he had no obligation to do, but he did so out of courtesy to let them know WHY he wasn't answering them so they know there's nothing wrong, something they should know already, and not something that's provocative at all).

Or do you think police SHOULD act this way towards any paparazzi? Those tools often do get provocative, but they never get arrested over it.

[Hook x2]
Clap
Magic Clap

It's like a hotwire, baby
When we put it together
When the sparks fly
We'll ignite the future forever
This is the last kiss Martin ever gave to Coretta
It's like a paparazzi picture when I flash my Beretta
I got scars on my back
The truth on my tongue
I had the money in my hand when that alarm got rung
We wanna breathe fire and freedom from our lungs
Tell Homeland Security
We are the bomb

[Hook x2]

Hurry up, get in, close the do'
This here the meeting for the overthrow
Waiting on that concrete rose to grow
Doing lines that ain't quotable
Counting up all that dough you owe
You ain't sposed to know its opposable
We are not disposable
Muscle up kid
We got blows to throw
Til the folks have risen
There'll be no decision
We make the motor move
They chauffer driven
Right now we can't shine right like a broken prism
I figured out the 14th is a broke amendment

[Hook x2]

Good evening
Tonight we bring to you
Worn out streets that'll sing to you
.45 shells that'll dance to the beats
Stomachs so loud it'll cancel the speech
Checks that vanish if you blink an eye
Grace getting locked in the clink to die
A salary cap on a birth certificate
Notarized lies that burst in triplicate
Morning prayers for the car to start
A man and a whiskey in a heart-to-heart
Hope in a track suit to flash and run
While agony chases with a badge and gun
Poetry shouted from the squeal of the bus breaks
Hands in the air try to feel for an escape
Flash in my eyes like candid snaps
When we slap back, it's the magic clap

^ I don't know guys, I still say if I had to choose which of these dipshits to defend it'd be the biker guy. I wouldn't defend his actions because they're obviously idiotic. Check. I get that part. But I can respect that he actually speaks his mind to pseudo-journalists like these. They're scum and are a sideways step from paparazzi. Does the biker not have a point that it's rude to film people without their authorization? Who here likes that?

1:46 "Goddamn paparazzi..."

Ok-I was drunk-Tom can act his off-It's the douche-factor that squirrels me-and his off-camera Hubbard-paparazzi shit, the statements he's made he can never live that shit down and it's difficult to separate the man's trade craft from his systemic, douche-douchey-doucheness.

Only like like, 3 of his flicks though-And for the body of work he's produced, that ain't sayin' a whole lot....Except that someones a picky bitch

...nevermind...not needed:

as this user, DrArlissLoveless,...

030713, posted this vid at http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3537446and was subsequently placed on probation.

030713@10:25 PM, posted this vid @ http://lunaticoutpost.com/Topic-Justin-Bieber-Flips-Out-at-Photog-UK-Paparazzi-in-London?pid=5350102#pid5350102.

030813@12:22PM, posted this @http://www.ign.com/boards/threads/justin-bieber-flips-out-at-photog-uk-paparazzi-in-london.452912102/.

As YT user Steve Jibs (so as not to be traced as a self link):
030813@12:58PMPST, posted this vid @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiswGonHyus.

One hour later...voila.

*banbieberboy

It's great where the paparazzi guy doesn't want to be filmed.