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Battle At Paradise Cove: Matthew McConaughey's Surf-Toughs Pummel Beach Paps
Posted by Seth at 4:05 AM on June 24, 2008
The heat, a killer surf, and a clear shot of Hollywood's favourite shirt-eschewing leading man was a recipe for disaster this weekend. Having returned from his recent Nicaraguan escapades a proud flop-owner in search of his missing flip, Matthew McConaughey combated our city's punishing heat wave by hitting the tasty breaks of Malibu's Paradise Cove. It was there that several upstanding members of our city's paparazzo community—hoping to catch that elusive, $1 million photo of McConaughey hanging toes to the nose while clutching his newborn—were confronted, and ultimately assaulted, by an intimidating and unruly mob of board-shorted surfing henchmen. From the LAT:
The heat, a killer surf, and a clear shot of Hollywood's favourite shirt-eschewing leading man was a recipe for disaster this weekend. Having returned from his recent Nicaraguan escapades
"They formed a semicircle in front of his camera and they said they didn't want him to film," said Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department spokesman Steve Whitmore. "They got into an argument, and he indicated that he received injuries. . . . [They] took the video camera and threw it in the water." [...]
One of the group of apparent paparazzi on the x17online video appeared to argue with the surfers, saying that the beach was public property and he had every right to be there.
"This is public property, this is public property," he said.
The video then shows two beachgoers chasing one of the paparazzi, dragging him into the water and kicking him.
Two videos from the event—one from TMZ.com, above, and another at X17online.com—demonstrate the extreme lengths to which this Brotherhood of Drunk Beach Assholes Doing Righteously By Their Superstar Brah will go towards safeguarding McConaughey's access to the epic waves that sate his untamable, surf-hungry spirit. The battle has only begun.
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Old No.7
Posted 5:13 AM 24/6/08
Do you have a baseball bat? It be a lot cooler if you did.
Old No.7
Dr. Spaceman, Esq.
Posted 5:08 AM 24/6/08
All right, all right, all right!
Dr. Spaceman, Esq.
avocats
Posted 5:04 AM 24/6/08
go, surfer dudes. Paradise Cove used to be a quiet place you could take your kids for a beach experience. Now it's crawling with vermin (those with cameras, whose occupation is competing to make people miserable). I was never a fan of territorial surfers, but now . . . they are fighting to iprove circumstance for all of us who can't afford a beachfront home.
avocats
CourageousCoward
Posted 5:01 AM 24/6/08
Actions have consequences. For the paps, it's payback time. Team Vigilante!
CourageousCoward
NoWireHangers
Posted 4:31 AM 24/6/08
That's right, Bros. Fight for the honor of Matthew McConaughey. That's a cause worth fight for. Don't let those evil photogs hurt one plugged hair on his head. We need to make sure Matty's around to make another vital contribution to the American cinema canon: Fool's Gold II: Pap Attack at Paradise Cove.
NoWireHangers
TurdBlossom
Posted 4:30 AM 24/6/08
Guess someone is still miffed over his "family-man" charade bubble being burst.
TurdBlossom
Molly McAleer
Posted 4:29 AM 24/6/08
@mr.Man: Watching this was painful for me. I hate all of these people.
Molly McAleer
mr.Man
Posted 4:17 AM 24/6/08
Hmm...I'm torn about which group has the bigger asshole quotient: Territorial Malibu Surfers or Paparazzi...
Maybe we should just let these gentlemen settle things among themselves.
mr.Man
Pete the Chop
Posted 4:13 AM 24/6/08
Someone's pitching "Point Break 3" at 20th Century Fox right this very instant:
"See instead of bank robbers, the surfers this time are vigilante paparazzi knee-breakers!"
Pete the Chop
Max0r
Posted 6:15 AM 24/6/08
Local's only?
Max0r
Allie Anne
Posted 6:12 AM 24/6/08
Why is McConaughey so hot again all of a sudden? Is it because of the baby?
Anyway, I don't blame MM for getting his drink on before the blessed event and I think that he handled that situation in a super-cool way but he should have tried to rein in those surfer guys (if it was within his power to do so). Like it or not, those paps WERE doing their job; one that they are not being paid millions of dollars to do (unlike Matty). Throwing their cameras in the water and causing physical injury because they were trying to get a pic of MM surfing? Sorry, no ... that's not cool.
Allie Anne
kookla
Posted 6:05 AM 24/6/08
Those dudes are totally harshing my buzz.
kookla
Hart88
Posted 5:52 AM 24/6/08
Good thing McConaughey doesn't surf in NJ.
Hart88
raincoaster
Posted 5:24 AM 24/6/08
Wow. Doncha have weed in California? Dudes need to chill.
raincoaster
TheQuestion
Posted 6:24 AM 24/6/08
@CourageousCoward: I'm with the Cat on this one. I find Matthew, even in his drunken shirtless glory, a higher form of life than the Paps. Send 'em packing to go chase Britney amd Lindsay, surfer dudes!
TheQuestion
TwiceShy
Posted 7:55 AM 24/6/08
@WGARefugee: and pooped on.
TwiceShy
WGARefugee
Posted 7:39 AM 24/6/08
hate being photographed, I mean
WGARefugee
WGARefugee
Posted 7:38 AM 24/6/08
@TwiceShy: What I hate the most are people who harass gargoyles. Everyone knows gargoyles being photographed.
WGARefugee
Little Mintz Sunshine
Posted 7:34 AM 24/6/08
Can we send some surfers up to Mulholland to kick the shit out of the double-parked losers who stake out the entrance to The Summit?
Little Mintz Sunshine
TwiceShy
Posted 7:22 AM 24/6/08
They got off easy.
I hate the paparazzi they harass EVERYBODY and they perve out on the girls at the beach.
worse than scum.
TwiceShy
KNau
Posted 7:20 AM 24/6/08
Man, paps need to hit the gym more. Getting your ass kicked by surfer dudes is just embarrassing.
KNau
tmp00
Posted 8:19 AM 24/6/08
where are the g*damned sharks when you need them?
tmp00
switchbladesister
Posted 10:57 AM 24/6/08
back off, warchild! (i cant believe no one has said that yet.) anyhoo, i'm guessing the surfers just didnt want anyone filming a surfer, and they werent upset on matthew mcconnaghey's behalf. they probably feel the ocean should be an escape from that kind of bullshit and i agree. (disclaimer: have not watched video so i dont know how douchey this encounter was)
switchbladesister
WGARefugee
Posted 11:40 AM 24/6/08
Why is it that men don't like to be photographed in cold water while women do? What are they so nervous about? Somebody give me a clue here--is it a long answer or a short answer?
WGARefugee