Paparrazi turf war: Angelina convoy crashes into motorcycle (update)


The Angelina convoy ran into a snafu while squiring her heiness from her hotel in Pune, India to the set to film “A Mighty Heart.” According to who you believe, either Angelina’s car or an over-zealous papparazo hit a motorcyle with two people on it.

No one was seriously harmed, and the most likely explanation is that a photographer did it, since there were far more of them, and that’s what an Indian newspaper is reporting.

The Mumbai Mirror says that there was a car chase of sorts, and that a bunch of donkeys blocked the road, at which point an eager photographer raced ahead, colliding with a motorcycle:

The paparazzi assembled at Pune are showing no signs of weakening. Yesterday a cluster of them, 20-odd packed into five cars and a few more in autorickshaws, chased Angelina Jolie all the way from Le Meridien to Aundh. Angelina didn’t appear too perturbed, as she sat with her head studiously tucked into the book, Crimes of War.

As they reached Aundh, however, both the chasers and the chased came up against a unique roadblock – a pack of donkeys. Everything came to a standstill then, and the photographers could get a picture. In the hurry to get ahead, however, one of the paparazzi cars dashed into a passing motorbike, overturning it and injuring the couple riding on it. Residents of Aundh, a normally sleepy suburb of Pune, mustn’t be too happy with the extravaganza unfolding in their backyard, anyway. Now there’s speeding paparazzi posing a risk to their life and limb…

Meanwhile, there’s also rivalry brewing between the paparazzi. Apparently, some of them who were in an auto and couldn’t get near enough Angelina’s Merc because the way was being blocked by another paparazzi car, flashed a knife at the photographers in the car.

The message is loud and clear. Anything for a sneak peak through the lens at Angelina Jolie.

The only pictures we have of Angelina are of her inside the car trying to read with sunglasses on, and that hardly seems worth all the trouble. When the paparrazi swarm so thickly around her that there’s a turf war and a car accident, it’s easy to see why she holed up in a luxury fortress in Africa to have her baby.

Meanwhile The Times of India is reporting that Brad and Angelina took a second rickshaw ride on Sunday to try and ease the demand for photographs. They rode around the city for 20 minutes on the photo-op, trying to give the paparrazi plenty of pictures to go home with. They thought it was a successful strategy, and it did reduce the number of people harassing them at the hotel. That seems to have only been a temporary fix considering the latest incident.

Update NBC News tells the story as if Angelina’s driver swerved to avoid the paparrazi and hit the motorcyclist. It is unknown what actually happened, and with so many different accounts it’s hard to tell.

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  1. marines all the way says:

    lol thats just funny and I have actually read that book, not very good, I wish I could sit down with Angelina and jjust tel her liek it is

  2. brangelinaarethepitts says:

    Angelina sit down with one of the ‘little people’. Not bloody likely

  3. brangelinaarethepitts says:

    BTW..I know it’s the angle but look at her hands!…she could give Paris a run for her money

  4. HateHypocrites says:

    She is such an intellect. There is probably a comic book stuck inside of the book she is holding.

    Wonder if she will buy an infant in India as well?

  5. marines all the way says:

    lol hate you make it sound like those kids are like items at a supermarket

  6. whatever says:

    buy an infant?????

    it’s a long term committment to adopt a kid, should not make fun of….

  7. JENNY says:

    Yes, it is a long term commitment to adopt or have a child naturally…..
    “marines all the way’ is right.
    It does appear like supermarket shopping becauseit is…they never take the real specials i.e, the little kids with aids, deformities, hearing loss, blind,sick etc.
    They’re always really cute as as a button as it appears was Madonna’s new baby adopted this week.
    Why didn’t she adopt the baby’s dad as well and give him a job on one of her properties?
    Sorry, I think Oprah has the greatest thing going with her wonderful schools in these people’s own countries so they might even stay and help their own people.
    Down with gratuitous trophyism.
    It’s all to make themselves look good.
    What about adopting a little kid who’s parents are dead or on drugs or dying in America??
    hhhmmmmmmm!?