So today, Mr. A-Plus-K gets his camera out and starts complaining about his neighbor's house being worked on at 7:30am. If you know Ashton and his sense of humor, he's mostly joking, but there's something real or serious in most of his responses. Obviously, the paparazzi doesn't get the humor in it all. Even The Huff Post seems to be running with the den of press wolves here.
Plain and simple, if the guy is upset about something, let him be upset. If he's half joking, let him joke. Even if it's a mix of serious and PUNKing around, it's just a homeowner that's letting off some steam.
Sure, in the real world, construction workers start early... way early. Which is one reason why I'm not in construction. And we can't all have the luxury of dictating the time schedule of construction workers. So the part that Ashton is half serious about, he needs to get this. I'm sure he does. I'm just saying.
And while this particular homeowner is an actor who married a famous actress, and any of their actions or moves brings out every photographer out of the wood work, trying to capture every lucrative image they can get to keep them employed in their stalkarazzi position as long as they can, there still should be some sort of time and space respect.
Still, the questions begs: Why the media circus? Why camp outside this guys home?
You want photos of him? Hang out at the awards shows.
You want to see him in his jeans and t-shirt? Camp out at the airport and nicely take a photo without trying to ride up his ass crack while he's pulling his luggage.
Every other time - Stay away. Your hunt for the money shot isn't going to help you do anything except put cash into your wallet.
It's about privacy. Not about how much money one gets for taking the photo.
Now if this is Ashton filming new episodes of PUNK'D, that's cool. And maybe part of this is based on press that Ashton will get. That's fine. But you still have to learn when to back the fuck off.
Why am I writing this, you ask? I don't like all of Ashton's movies. I've not seen all of Demi's movies, either. But this is personal. If someday, I'm popular enough to where people will be hounding me for a photo, I'd want to have some time and space request. Take my photo when I'm on the red carpet, but don't clog the road I live on for some dumb shot of me with a t-shirt and hat on.
Enough is enough. As Ashton said today.... "you all know the truth... shhhhhhhhh"
