Paparazzi violence

This blog is based on the following newsitem:

"Kanye West charged for scuffle with paparazzi"


http://entertainment.oneindia.in/music/international/2009/kanye-charged-190309.html

After being followed by paparazzi, rapper Kanye West lost it and has now been chared with misdemeanour vandalism, battery and grand theft.

Violence against paparazzi isn't something that everyone will have an experience with in their life. First of all, you have to be interesting enough to be followed by paparazzi. Secondly, there have to be a lot and obnoxious paparazzi present. And thirdly, there has to be a reason for you to act violent against them.

Of course, violence is never a good thing. However, I can imagine how one could lose it, if you look at the way paparazzi try to invade celebrities personal life. For example, can you imagine running into this when you're on your way out:

It is not so hard to drive someone insane this way. When I read a story about a celebrity getting into trouble for hitting a paparazzo or destroying his camera, my first thought is "the paparazzo probably had it coming". It takes a lot of selfcontrol to stay calm when you're being harassed in such a way. If there are no serious injuries, I do not contempt violence against paparazzi at all. I believe that there should be a law against those kind of paparazzi that push their camera in celebrities' faces, and that they should be the ones getting into trouble for the extreme ways in which they execute their jobs and not the people they harass.