Tuesday, October 23, 2012

The Almost Tragedy (For Them)
Of The Commons

Walking through Pan-Pacific Park today we were asked not to walk on a very public path by students (we'll guess) shooting some shit. Making demands (ridiculous or otherwise) of us is never a good idea, as we are in a state of rage 24/7 (To the point of grinding our remaining teeth as we sleep, we so want to lash out!) but even though we hadn't yet breakfasted, making us even crankier than usual, we complied & wandered a different path, to the hill above where these twerps were shooting. Looking down on them (in every sense of the phrase) we had the inspiration that a shot or two of them could be slightly more interesting than the other crap we'd already shot, so we took a picture.
Then this little fuckface, a future 3nd AD/extra wrangler (if he's lucky & sucks enough dick to get into show biz) waved at us to stop taking pictures of them.
Hah! We advised him to go to hell & flipped him off. When he got closer we said "Fuck you," inquired if he had a permit to be shooting (Why else would he care that we we were taking pictures?) & telling people where the hell they could & couldn't walk, & asked him to consider the hypocrisy of attempting to violate our right to photograph in a public place even as he was fucking doing it. Should've switched to video & recorded it all, but sometimes rage just consumes one.

Being outnumbered & not desiring our head to explode what w/ our high blood pressure (Is it any damn wonder we're constantly on the verge of exploding like a supernova when scum like this wander the streets unimpeded?) we quit the verbal abuse & decided against pushing him & the two other student jerks who came after him down the fucking hill, & eventually wandered away, after a couple more "Fuck yous" & fingers. They have no idea how close they came to feeling the malignant wrath of Bouffant.

5 comments:

Glennis said...

Dickheads. Let me amend that by saying had I been the city official that granted them the permit (that they obviously didn't have) I would have defended their right to wave signs at you to the death!

Glennis said...

According to their First Amendment Rights of Sign Waving, obviously.

Of course, your First Amendment Right of Bird Flipping would supercede that.

OBS said...

You should've gone home and gotten a bunch of food and stuff and come back and had a nice relaxing picnic right in the middle of their spot. And recorded them freaking out about it.

M. Bouffant said...

Unprovoked Attack Editor:
Hell, we were on our way to Slave-Trader Joe's. Should've bought a salad, gotten a free fork & come right back. 'Though we don't want to drive any more production out of town, and we were all losing the light.

He did claim to have a permit. We kept our distance, but the photos indicate they might've been high-school students instead of "film" schoolers, so if they had a faculty advisor, yada, they might well have had a permit.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

LOL, "Don't take pictures of us taking pictures!"

I thought these kids today understood meta.