Freelance shutterbugs Rolando Aviles and Uri Cortez claim they were targets of gunfire after taking photos of the Gisele Bundchen / Tom Brady nuptials. There’s no truth to the rumor Bill Belichick would like to hire Bunchen’s securty detail to work future Patriots practices. From the Boston Globe’s Mark Shanahan :
The trouble apparently began as the two photographers were returning to their car after using long lenses to shoot pics of the nuptials. The snappers were then confronted by security and “frogmarched” to the Brazilian beauty’s villa, where they were asked to turn over their film, according to INF. (Gisele, it seems, has an exclusive picture deal with a Brazilian magazine.) The men refused and, trailed by security, ran back to their jeep. “As they started the engine, a live round pierced the back windshield…and hit the front windshield directly between the two mens’ heads,” according to a post at INF’s blog. Cortez said he was shocked. “I couldn’t believe it when I realized what they had done,” he told the photo agency. “I could have lost my life for the sake of some pictures that Gisele didn’t want published. Are they insane?”
Plaxico Fantastico merely shot himself in the leg, and he’s currently jobless. Tom Brady might be an accessory to attempted murder, but I sincerely doubt NFL security has anyone en route to Costa Rica.
pretty sure ray lewis set the precedent for job retention vis a vis accessory to murder.
too bad they missed
It’s too bad they didn’t kill the photographers…
paps are fucking fags
Too bad they missed. Stupid paparazzi were breaking the law trespassing and technically stealing pictures. No one would have missed them if security hadn’t been a bad aim. Maybe next time they will think twice.
When your job gets you to hide in a bush and you don’t work for 5.0, you gotta expect the unexpected. When you be a man, you don’t get shot at. He is who he is: a bush ridin’ fox. And fox’ sometimes get shot at.
“I could have lost my life for the sake of some pictures that Gisele didn’t want published. Are they insane?â€
Are YOU? Leave folks alone. Their wedding day. Their special day. They want to sell their photos exclusively. Theirs. Can’t you paps for once respect someone else’s privacy. You’re like children who don’t know where the boundaries are. You feel you have the right to do whatever you want, whenever you want, wherever you want. Sadly, maybe it will take one of you getting killed before you get the message. See this as a ‘warning shot’.
What the hell did they expect? Poaching on private property? The photographers are idiots.
“I could have lost my life for the sake of some pictures that Gisele didn’t want published. Are they insane?â€
Why the hell did you try to take them then? You’re insane for not respecting their privacy! For trespassing! I wish you had been shot, moron.
Oh what a pity they missed…fucking paparazzi are the scum of the earth
But Cortez is known to always carry a gun. And there is a story going round that he shot of the back of the SUV himself.
I wish I was working the security, I wouldn’t have missed.