Open season on paparazzi

You know, I have a little trouble conjuring up any sympathy at all for the paparazzo Keanu Reeves apparently clipped with his Porsche on Monday.

From the story:

The photographer fell to the ground and paramedics were called after Reeves' car allegedly struck the man at 7:30 p.m. Monday, said Deputy Ed Hernandez of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

"He grazed a paparazzi standing in front of his Porsche and the man fell to the ground," Hernandez said. It wasn't known how fast the Porsche was traveling.

Reeves was leaving a parking space in the Avenida Tranquila residential area near Los Verdes County Golf Course about 30 miles south of downtown Los Angeles, he said.

As a matter of fact, I have a lot of trouble feeling sympathy for paparazzi beset by any number of work-related mishaps: they are scum-weasels, human energy-sucking remoras clinging to the celebrity teat and abusing privacy in the name of the “People’s Right To Know.” I’m only sorry Keanu wasn’t borrowing one of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s legion of Hummers at the time…now THAT would have resulted in more than a graze.

Law enforcement needs to crack down on the harassment commonly practiced by these packs of ravening idiots, shielded as they are by celebrities’ generally-acknowledged reduced right to privacy. Either that or give Sean Penn, Lindsay Lohan, Reeves et al a free rein to respond to the public harrying with anything short of lethal force.