“What we need is Britney Spears to stay home instead of traipsing all over town.”
YES! I want to marry this man and have his children.
LAPD Chief William Bratton thinks the new so-called Britney’s Law proposed by councilman Dennis Zine is a bucket of hooey, points out that there are already laws in place to deal with overzealous paparazzi, and thinks she and her celebutard friends should, oh, I don’t know, STAY HOME:
What we need is Britney Spears to stay home instead of traipsing all over town. That would solve the problem. We don’t need additional laws…. I’ve got laws coming out my ears to deal with this issue.
What you have is several young women in this town and several young men basically making fools of themselves and tying up not only my resources but the resources of the media that would do better covering legitimate stories instead of a bunch of airheads running around out there….
Quite clearly some of these characters so favored by the paparazzi are clearly in need of services. Not police services, but psychiatric services.
It’s pure genius. I can’t possibly add anything to it. So simple, so pure, so fully packed.
Give this man a Breath Of Fresh Air Award, and while I’m at it…
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sorry chief, she has tried your fair city’s psychiatric services and you see how that has worked out. he is just pissed cause he has caught flak for spending $25,000 to haul her butt to UCLA for the second go round.
Comment by sally — February 22, 2008 @ 1:50 pm
That’s an underreported aspect of this whole mess: these people have enough money to build palaces of fun, far away from the nosy paparazzi and disapproving eyes of middle America. They could have the best parties and most fun in the world and do it on their own terms.
How many DUIs would be avoided if there was nowhere to drive post-intoxication? Britney, Pac Man Jones, and the rest of these clowns need to keep their big ass at home when they want to party. Some of them might want to stay home and raise their kids while they’re at it.
Comment by Josh Hathaway — February 22, 2008 @ 1:57 pm
But…the reason why they had to spend so much money transporting her to the hospital is precisely because Brit courts the paps…and so do others like her. Stars and photogs each encourage the other’s bad behavior.
Yes, the paps do cross the line, but maybe if some of these people would stay home every once in a while instead of doing what they do, there’d be nothing to take photos of. And the hospital didn’t release Brit, the court made them.
Comment by k — February 22, 2008 @ 1:59 pm
Josh…that’ll preach, brother!
Comment by k — February 22, 2008 @ 2:01 pm
Look, the $24,000 escort was unnecessary. BS’s life wasn’t in imminent danger, so there was no rush to get her to the hospital. They didn’t need all those police vehicles surrounding the ambulance.
Comment by Narcissus — February 22, 2008 @ 2:08 pm
Narcissus: You’re absolutely right. Her life was not in immediate danger, and this wasn’t a presidential escort.
But…considering what happened the last time the ambulance was called to Brit’s house, and the ensuing pandemonium that happened en route with the paps following the ambulance, some sort of preplanning and police help was undoubtedly necessary to ensure the safety of both the medical workers and innocent drivers of other vehicles.
They could have toned it down a bit, though…
Comment by k — February 22, 2008 @ 2:12 pm
I wish she’d just buy the Neverland Ranch and live a quiet existence never to be heard from again.
Comment by D — February 22, 2008 @ 4:04 pm
In total agreement!!
And re: what D says — MJ has Neverland, Elvis had Graceland, Walt had Disneyland…
I know what she could do, she could buy up some government land over an old nuclear test site in Nevada, build herself a fake town, like the one the FBI and Secret Service use for training. It could build a Starbuck$, a Rite-Aid and a Taverna Tony’s. She could drive around her streets aimlessly while the live-in paps followed her everwhere. She could hire “actors” and “dancers” to man all the fake stores. They would have the added benefit of being able to hone their mad acting skillz by fawning over her when she dropped by.
This way, she wouldn’t be putting the public (or public funds) in danger every time she went somewhere.
And, as an added benefit, since she’d be the Mayor of Britneyville, NV she could make a rule declaring every Friday be no underwear day!
The way I see it, it’s win-win. Well, for everyone except Nevada.
Comment by crazymom — February 22, 2008 @ 4:42 pm
So what every one is saying is that because your famous, you should never go out? What propels all of this is people with no life and nothing to do who hang on every thing celebrities do. That encourages the Paps and fuels the fires.
Famous or not, no one wants to be stuck in their home because some Dumb A#$ wants to prevent what it cost for new laws and stricter regulation of what the paps are doing. Didnt we learn any thing from Di? Oh wait, from what all of you think, Di should have stayed home too.
Comment by Brandee Davis — February 22, 2008 @ 6:29 pm
If you know that what you are going to do is going to cause a pap frenzy which could endanger innocent people passing by, then YES…stay home. The likelihood of Britney or Paris or Lindsay or any number of famous people causing a problem on the streets is MUCH higher than if you or I decided to pop out to Starbucks or the grocery store.
That’s one of the downfalls of being a celebrity. The up sides, of course, include lots of money, people to stick up for your stupid actions on the internets, and people to do your running around FOR you. Use a gofer, use a personal driver, use a bodyguard…but those solutions are too easy.
People know that when they become famous, they can no longer go around like they did when they weren’t famous. Period. They can deal with it or they can drop out of sight and not be famous any more. There are already laws in place…enforce them.
Comment by k — February 22, 2008 @ 8:01 pm
Psych med’s. The new icepick in the brain (lobotomy). The ACLU should be all over this. Britney’s psychiatrist poisoned her with psych med’s through tricking Britney’s care taker Sam to medicate Britney on doctors orders with some medication poisons. Then the hospital psychiatrists, Britney’s family, and the courts used Britney’s mental impairments caused by their poisoning of her to strip Britney of all her civil rights. Just review the videos, and other records made at the time.
“It would be torture to give a powerful anti-psychotic drug to somebody who isn’t even mentally ill. … But here, it’s happening on U.S. soil” (ACLU attorney Ahilan Arulanantham)
If the Federal court lets this outrageous violation of Britney’s civil rights stand. The court will be sanctioning the drugging, kidnapping, imprisonment, poisoning, torture, and seizure of property, assets, and personage of any US citizen by conspiracy’s of psychiatrists, family, or others.
Based, solely on the highly subjective opinion, and pseudo-science of biased unscrupulous psychiatrists. In concert with other conspirators. And this could happened to anyone. Especially anyone seeking mental health care. Or who had previously sought, or received mental health care. This is so unconstitutional it stinks.
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Comment by herfan — February 23, 2008 @ 1:37 am
Uhm. First of all, he isn’t just talking about Britney, but about any of the so-called stars who do these things.
Secondly, did you read this? That “psuedo-science” you scorn is the only thing helping Britney right now. People like you just hurt her.
Perhaps you should get all your facts before passing judgement.
Comment by k — February 23, 2008 @ 1:42 am
Thank you for that medical assessment, Dr. Lutfi.
Seriously, there are famous movie stars who go out all the time and don’t cause quite the pap-storm that Brit, LiLo and Paris cause.
It’s been pretty much accepted as fact that Brit (or someone in her “employ”) would call certain websites to let them know she was coming. Big deal, Britney coming out of starbucks yet again isn’t a big draw, but when Brit brings her own brand of crazazy to starbucks or Rite-Aid or the Exxon station, well, that’s another story. Hundreds of paps show because they know something’s going to happen and they want the money shot — be it a crotch shot, a kid in a lap shot, or the arrival of a monthly visitor.
It’s not so much about staying home, it’s about not courting the paps when you’re out. Jennifer Garner and her daughter go EVERYWHERE; Gwen Stefani takes Kingston EVERYWHERE; heck even Suri takes the Katie Holmes stick figure out every now and then — and while they do get followed by paps, there’s just not that much pap interest in Jen taking Violet out for another day at the playground, or Gwen taking Kingston shopping, or Katie and Suri doing whatever it is they do.
Face it, boring is, well, boring and nobody wants to see that.
p/s - it’s also been said that Princess Diana courted the press at certain times.
Comment by crazymom — February 23, 2008 @ 9:39 am
I think Diana invented courting the press. she did it all the time, she was much worse than anything spears has done. and it wound up costing her her life.
Comment by sally — February 23, 2008 @ 5:44 pm