thelostogle.comMove over, Banksy. There's a hot new vandal in town.
Jessica Alba left many citizens of Oklahoma City seeing red white last week, when she blanketed the downtown, guerrilla-style, with posters of great white sharks as part of an underground effort to draw attention to the dwindling population of the predators.
Unfortunately, the actress' secret mission was outed yesterday, when photos of her plastering the posters around the city—and posing victoriously in front of a defaced United Way billboard—wound up online.
Cue the Jaws theme and keep reading...
Alba's effort was part of the White Mike conservation campaign, which originated in Los Angeles and which late last month expanded to Atlanta, Washington, D.C., and, with help from the actress, Oklahoma City.
Alba was in town to shoot the indie crime flick The Killer Inside Me alongside Kate Hudson and Casey Affleck.
"Wow so just blasted OKL in a big way!!" reads a June 2 message on White Mike's Twitter feed. "Had a friend 'tag' along non pun intended."
Two days later, the enthusiasm returned and the unnamed friend verified.
"Just came back from OK! Had a blast tagging with a new friend. Check out the pics with Jessica Alba's help here."
While Alba has yet to publicly comment on her exploits, it seems some officials saw the bill-posting more as nuisance than public Service.
An Oklahoma City news station reported that the United Way was not amused at having to shell out $235 to replace its shark-infested billboard.
And, according to TMZ, the city's director of Parks and Recreation, Wendell Whisenhunt, filed a police report accusing Alba of vandalism. It seems the glue she used was so strong officials are unable to remove the shark posters from the billboard, bridge and electrical boxes to which they were affixed.
And that poses the question: did Alba and her fish-saving friends just jump the shark with this stunt?
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