xboxdynasty
06-23-2008, 11:44 PM
Got what they deserved. What ever happened to invasion of privacy. Just cause I'm taking a pi$$ in a public bathroom, doesn't give the right for some to take a picture of my inadequacy. :loser:
Free press doesn't apply to anything without some limitation (eg child pornography, terrorist communication, or government secrets).
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Report: Surfers, Paparazzi Clash On SoCal Beach
MALIBU, Calif. -- A paparazzo trying to photograph Matthew McConaughey at a Malibu beach claims that a mob of surfers attacked him and threw his camera in the ocean.
The 29-year-old photojournalist told sheriff's deputies that a group of surfers demanded Saturday that he and other paparazzi stop taking pictures and filming.
One photographer's nose was broken, and another paparazzi was dunked in the ocean, his cameras destroyed, according to videos and descriptions of the Saturday fight posted on the Internet by two celebrity Web sites.
The x17online.com photo agency, and the celebrity web site TMZ.com., have both posted videos of the confrontation.
In the video, actor Matthew McConaughey, who was at least 100 feet away, paddles out into the surf, as a dozen photographers down the beach shot pictures.
The videos then show 15 young men, some drinking beer, walking up the beach towards the cluster of a dozen paparazzi.
"This looks nasty," said one of the photographers.
One man, in a bathing suit, points to McConaughey and his friends surfing at the Little Dume break. "They don't want you here!" he angrily tells the paparazzi. "And nobody that lives here wants you here."
"A thousand bucks if you leave right now," offers one of the men. The video shows the photographers answering that they were on public property, and were doing their jobs.
"OK. let's draw a line and we'll fight for the beach, and if you win, you can have the beach," offers one surfer. "One on one."
A paparazzo yells back, "You're being ignorant now. You'd better wake up and realize how stupid you look."
As obscenities and threats fly from both sides, the TMZ video shows most of the photographers running away from the men in swimsuits. But one photographer, speaking with an apparent Australian accent, stands his ground on the sand.
One bare-chested surfer, his arms outstretched, then walks forward into the paparazzi, bumping the photographer repeatedly by shoving his chest outward. The photographer is shoved backwards several feet, loses one camera and monopole to a bystander, then turns to run.
Two men then chase the photographer down, grapple with him at the water's edge, and throw him into the surf, apparently wrecking a camera he was observed carrying. Both tapes stop at that point.
Neither tape is continuous, making it possible that some incendiary remarks or acts were not captured on tape or were edited out.
The paparazzi agencies were not returning phone calls Sunday . But on the Web, x17online.com called the surfers "dorks."
"We are you, idiots," the Web page proclaimed indignantly. "Half of Malibu paps (paparazzi) are local surfers -- you're beating up on your own people."
Supervising officers at the Malibu-Lost Hills Sheriff's Office Sunday said they had not yet reviewed official reports of the apparent assault and battery. One photographer can be heard on one of the tapes saying that he had called deputies and they were on the way.
Although the water and adjacent sand are property of the people of California, local residents passionately guard access to the only road leading down the cliffs to the beach. Keys to the private road are available only to residents under decades-old easement rights, and groups of local surfers are known to harass strangers surfing there.
Malibu residents have voiced loud concerns about packs of freelance photographers clustering at local restaurants and stores. Many Malibu residents have told local reporters about life-threatening, dangerous driving stunts employed by paparazzi as they careen through parking lots and down local roads in pursuit of the many celebrities who live on the coast.
Mayor Pamela Conley Ulich has asked Kenneth Starr, dean of the law school at Pepperdine University in Malibu, to come up with a city ordinance regulating the aggressive photographers in accordance with First Amendment free press rights.
http://www.nbc11.com/news/16680456/detail.html
Free press doesn't apply to anything without some limitation (eg child pornography, terrorist communication, or government secrets).
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Report: Surfers, Paparazzi Clash On SoCal Beach
MALIBU, Calif. -- A paparazzo trying to photograph Matthew McConaughey at a Malibu beach claims that a mob of surfers attacked him and threw his camera in the ocean.
The 29-year-old photojournalist told sheriff's deputies that a group of surfers demanded Saturday that he and other paparazzi stop taking pictures and filming.
One photographer's nose was broken, and another paparazzi was dunked in the ocean, his cameras destroyed, according to videos and descriptions of the Saturday fight posted on the Internet by two celebrity Web sites.
The x17online.com photo agency, and the celebrity web site TMZ.com., have both posted videos of the confrontation.
In the video, actor Matthew McConaughey, who was at least 100 feet away, paddles out into the surf, as a dozen photographers down the beach shot pictures.
The videos then show 15 young men, some drinking beer, walking up the beach towards the cluster of a dozen paparazzi.
"This looks nasty," said one of the photographers.
One man, in a bathing suit, points to McConaughey and his friends surfing at the Little Dume break. "They don't want you here!" he angrily tells the paparazzi. "And nobody that lives here wants you here."
"A thousand bucks if you leave right now," offers one of the men. The video shows the photographers answering that they were on public property, and were doing their jobs.
"OK. let's draw a line and we'll fight for the beach, and if you win, you can have the beach," offers one surfer. "One on one."
A paparazzo yells back, "You're being ignorant now. You'd better wake up and realize how stupid you look."
As obscenities and threats fly from both sides, the TMZ video shows most of the photographers running away from the men in swimsuits. But one photographer, speaking with an apparent Australian accent, stands his ground on the sand.
One bare-chested surfer, his arms outstretched, then walks forward into the paparazzi, bumping the photographer repeatedly by shoving his chest outward. The photographer is shoved backwards several feet, loses one camera and monopole to a bystander, then turns to run.
Two men then chase the photographer down, grapple with him at the water's edge, and throw him into the surf, apparently wrecking a camera he was observed carrying. Both tapes stop at that point.
Neither tape is continuous, making it possible that some incendiary remarks or acts were not captured on tape or were edited out.
The paparazzi agencies were not returning phone calls Sunday . But on the Web, x17online.com called the surfers "dorks."
"We are you, idiots," the Web page proclaimed indignantly. "Half of Malibu paps (paparazzi) are local surfers -- you're beating up on your own people."
Supervising officers at the Malibu-Lost Hills Sheriff's Office Sunday said they had not yet reviewed official reports of the apparent assault and battery. One photographer can be heard on one of the tapes saying that he had called deputies and they were on the way.
Although the water and adjacent sand are property of the people of California, local residents passionately guard access to the only road leading down the cliffs to the beach. Keys to the private road are available only to residents under decades-old easement rights, and groups of local surfers are known to harass strangers surfing there.
Malibu residents have voiced loud concerns about packs of freelance photographers clustering at local restaurants and stores. Many Malibu residents have told local reporters about life-threatening, dangerous driving stunts employed by paparazzi as they careen through parking lots and down local roads in pursuit of the many celebrities who live on the coast.
Mayor Pamela Conley Ulich has asked Kenneth Starr, dean of the law school at Pepperdine University in Malibu, to come up with a city ordinance regulating the aggressive photographers in accordance with First Amendment free press rights.
http://www.nbc11.com/news/16680456/detail.html