Invasion of the Meltdown Snatchers

Tired of paparazzi smackdowns

By Ted Casablanca Sep 16, 2008 6:50 PMTags
Kanye West, Lindsay Lohan, Nicole RitchieAmy Sussman/Getty Image; Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images; Michael Simon/Startraks

There must be something in Hollywood's Vitamin Water, 'cause celebs are starting to get (even more) physical when it comes to the paparazzi, and in Nicole Richie's case, fans possibly aren't safe either.

According to Page Six, Nic went ape poop, 'course, in InWhySee last week when a Swedish tourist tried to take her pic. Richie hopped over the carpet rope and smashed the girl's camera to the ground shouting, "I'm not an animal!" As we're sure you've heard.

You may not be an animal, girlfriend, but you are a friggin' celeb whose career thrives off of your personal happenings. You think she'd be used to it by now.

La Lohan, too, had a little incident, and then there's the not-nice queen of them all, Kanye West. We all remember his airport battle last week when he flipped out, crashing cameras along the way, for no real reason. These three smackdowns happened within a week, what the ef's up?

Ya'll are gonna have to figure out a new way to deal with the snappity-snap of the camera, famous people. It may be annoying as Hell-Ay, but it comes with the territory. Deal. On second thought, don't. Then we'd have to go back to watching Lindsay's movies for entertainment.

—Additional sass by Taryn Ryder