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How would you react if paparazzi began following you around? Would you be respectful? Hostile?

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Marked as Best! March 21, 2010 01:56 PM
At this time, if the paparazzi began to follow me, I would be wondering why. I am not famous, have not done anything publicly extraordinary and as far as I know, am not infamous.

But if they did for any of the above reason, I may be able to tolerate it for a short while. But like most people I enjoy my solitude and privacy. Any invasion of this would probably invoke a bit of hostility on my part.

I would never physically attack anyone...but I would make it so boring for them, they would wither fall asleep or just stop following me.

If this didn't work, I may have a little fun with. By visiting bazaar places, doing bazaar things or just acting completely insane.

I might:

Drive around the same block 100's of times....if I'm rich and famous I have no where to be!

Walk into a grocery store, buy one item. Take it home, put it away, and head back to the store for one more item. Repeating the process until my list was complete.

Park in a parking lot and take a nap.

Walk around the mall with one shoe.

Or walk up to them ans ask about their family, their finances, their social habits etc....

Many of the things I could think of may make me look crazy....but that's the only thing I could think of that is non violent.......giving them the "run around" and make it as difficult for them to follow me as possible.
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March 21, 2010 07:54 AM
I would avenge this invasion of privacy by turning around and start to follow him/her like a paparazzi would. I would let him know what it is like to be followed by following him back to his house, to his workplace, take racy photos of him and post them all over the internet and elsewhere, and eventually the aim is to scare the s--t out of him. This is called reverse paparazzi. Several well known celebrities have even used this tactic as a way of driving their paparazzi away. Including Jay Chou.
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March 21, 2010 09:39 AM
I wouldn't react. I wouldn't acknowledge them at all. I would go about my business and hopefully become so boring to them that they would give up.
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March 21, 2010 05:01 PM
They'd have pretty bad luck trying to follow me around. I can be very stubborn, and I could easily see myself staying in my house and refusing to go anywhere at all for an extremely long period of time.

If they wanted to make any money at all, they'd have to eventually move along to take photos of people who actually go places and do things. After they found someone else to pester, I could go back to my normal activities.
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March 21, 2010 11:46 PM
If paparazzi should start following me around, I would just put up with it and ignore them. They have a job to do and that is take pictures for whatever readership they are employed by. Granted some paparazzi get a little crazy and dangerous and that would make me angry, but if they were just doing their job, I wouldn't really mind. Besides, since I don't leave the house that much, they would have a hard time taking pictures of me. :-)
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March 22, 2010 12:51 AM
I would ask what are they following me for. If I was in showbiz-hey-it's part of the game. If I did not need them for publicity like this that would be different as when they stop celebrities wonder why. Look what Britney did to get attention she couldn't take the end of her career. But if I got really annoyed and they kept it up I would show up at their personal residence to let them know I know where you live and start following your family.
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March 22, 2010 03:14 AM
My life is boring, so I don't think any paparazzi will be thrilled following me. My daily life consist of going to work, going home, sleep, work or play computer. Sometimes I eat out or going to the mall with my family. At weekends, my activity is about the same. Maybe I meet with my friends.
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