Paparazzi Families About To Get Very Hungry

Paparazzi have lovingly chased Lindsay Lohan into multiple car wrecks, thrown their faces in front of many-a-celebrity fist and maybe even mistakenly killed off royalty - all in the name of making a buck. It’s far from a new phenomenon, but there is a recent addition to the timeless equation.

Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor of the Hollywood state. The same Arnold Schwarzenegger that was run off the road by Paparazzi while his children were in the car with him, and the same Arnold Schwarzenegger that testified in a court of law for a Paparazzi-related incident he and his wife suffered through. 

With his new political might, Schwarzenegger has helped deal a crushing blow to the over achieving - and often times acne-scarred - camera snappers.

On January 1st a new law went into effect that stiffened the
penalties on Paparazzi in the state of California. The new law holds
paparazzi responsible for up to three times the actual physical damage
incurred (i.e. Lohan’s cars) while celebrity chasing, and they would
lose the possibility of any profit from the pictures acquired so
dangerously. 

The law here does not ban paparazzi from obtaining photos
in anyway, it just puts them on a much needed leash.  The new law also
gives a celebrity the right to stop an aggressively obtained
embarrassing photo from being published, and makes it easier to use the
legal system to do so. 

Now that celebrity stalking seems to be so financially perilous,
hecklerspray would like to apologise publicly and in alphabetical order
to Ali Landry, Alicia Silverstone, Alyssa Milano, Amanda Peet, Angelina
Jolie, Ashley Judd, Bridget Fonda, Brittany Murphy, Calista Flockhart,
Cameron Diaz, Carrie-Anne Moss, Cate Blanchett, Catherine Zeta Jones,
Christina Applegate, Courtney Cox, Debra Messing, Denise Richards, Drew
Barrymore, Elizabeth Hurley, Famke Janssen, Gillian Anderson, Gina
Gershon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Halle Berry, Heather Graham, Heather
Locklear, Helen Hunt, Holly Marie Combs, Jaime Pressly, Jenna Elfman,
Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Connelly, Jennifer Garner, Jennifer Lopez,
Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jeri Ryan, Jessica Alba, Jodie Foster, Julia
Roberts, Juliette Binoche, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, Lisa Kudrow,
Liv Tyler, Lucy Lawless, Lucy Liu, Meg Ryan, Michelle Pfeiffer, Natalie
Portman, Nicole Kidman, Penelope Cruz, Reese Witherspoon, Rene Russo,
Renee Zellweger, Rose McGowan, Salma Hayek, Sandra Bullock, Sarah
Jessica Parker, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Sela Ward, Shannon Elizabeth,
Teri Hatcher, Tia Carrere, Tiffani Amber Thiessen, Uma Thurman, and
Zhang Ziyi for being overly eager to hide in each of their bushes.
We’d also like to apologise to the corpse of Marylyn Monroe and the
super alive DJ Tanner of Full House fame, both for very similar reasons
that the judicial "system" won’t let us talk about. 

Also, mad shout out to our 12-time arresting Officer, Blake "faster than us" Baker! Your kid ever get that scholarship, Baker?

Read more:

Schwarzenegger introduces new paparazzi law - Contactmusic 

[story by Shawn Lindseth]