I’m your biggest fan, I’ll follow you until you love me…papa, papa *tires squealing*, *sirens*. A bill has been passed in California to limit the paparazzi’s access to celebrities.
Specifically, car chases. Now, I’m a huge fan of car chases, and everytime a crime breaks out in southern California, people always flee – no matter how many police helicopters and TV cameras are chasing them. But what’s much more frightening? When famous people are swarmed by cameras and start driving erratically – people could die. You might even blame Halle Berry and a myriad of other celebrity DUI’s on the fact that they couldn’t navigate the swarm of people in tactical turtlenecks trying to take covert pictures of their boobs. Or the fact that they’re idiots who haven’t hired drivers.
But in a new California bill, the paparazzi will be unable to “willfully interfere with the driver of a vehicle”, follow cars “more closely than is reasonable and prudent, or engage in reckless driving”, or “when a defendant falsely imprisons the plaintiff with the intent to capture any type of visual image, sound recording, or other physical impression of the plaintiff”.
What’s more impressive to me, is that it seems like falsely imprisoning someone to take their picture was LEGAL before. Opponents of the bill say that it’ll interfere with journalism, but I have no idea what kind of journalism involves chasing down cars and falsely imprisoning them.
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