And you thought the only car crash that Paris Hilton has had lately was that weird cod-reggae single she's releasing…
Paris Hilton, the dopey-eyed socialite trying desperately to become a recording artist despite having a voicebox capable of releasing a paper-thin "that's hot" as a response to every single event that unfolds around her, has only gone and crashed her car. But it wasn't her fault, Paris says – it was all those pesky paparazzi distracting her with their flashing lights and bad clothes.
Paris Hilton and vehicles don't really go together all that well. At the end of last year, Paris Hilton was in the car that her ex-boyfriend Stavros Niarchos smashed into a van while wearing a jumper over his head. And the least said about the Paris Hilton pissing in a taxi incident the better, frankly.
Such is the level of anticipation of a Paris Hilton car disaster that the paparazzi all swarm around her the second she so much as sits in any form of transportation, all desperate for a picture of the moment when Paris loses control and smashes her car into pieces. And last week they kind of got their wish – Paris Hilton reversed out of a parking spot into a parked car… and then drove off without leaving any contact details.
Not leaving details at the scene of a crash is very poor form; maybe not quite as poor as screwing a man on the internet or getting restraining orders pushed on her, but it's looked down on in Californian law. And this has exasperated Elliot Mintz, Paris Hilton's already-exasperated publicist:
"Did she commit a crime? No. She was swarmed by paparazzi. The intensity of the lights, flashbulbs, momentarily disoriented her. She backed up, there was a minor fender-bender. No injuries. She then told me she notified one of the parking people at the facility how to contact her and asked the person to please pass that along to the owner of the struck car. Paris is a very responsible and a very good driver, she takes her driving seriously. This was unfortunate and it will be handled appropriately."
Let's hope Paris Hilton gets to give her side of the story soon in the only way we'd like her to communicate from now on – by toasting in a dancehall reggae bashment stylee.
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[story by Stuart Heritage]