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Everyone has their bad dayshal1 wrote:Am I the only one that thinks "what a yo-yo"
Might have to wait through the commercial...
http://www.tmz.com/videos?autoplay=true ... 1ea620dc54
What does that say about everyone who's now talking about it and watching it? They're called paparazzi, it's part of what you sign up for as a movie star.TVB wrote:The fact that some bottom-feeder was tailing him with a camera like this is... disturbing.
yep, easy enough to do. The only thing that keeps a bike up is forward motion....the bike wants to fall over, so any wrong input, no matter how small, will drop the bike. He seemed pretty casual about it. That bike is a custom panhead with a stupid big front tire. It also looked like it would hurt to ride it for any length of time. At least he rides!!!Skootz Kabootz wrote:It looks like he just grabbed the front brake too hard and lost balance (always squeeze the brake, never grab - MSF course, day 1). But maybe he caught the left end of the handlebar on something. Sure is a nice looking bike.
laxer wrote:I hate to hijack my own thread, but yeah, without us interested in their professional AND personal lives they wouldn't make 20 million per movie.TVB wrote: it's part of what you sign up for as a movie star.
I think he clipped the front of the white SUV and damaged the bumper/fender. It must get old having cameras on you at every moment and people yelling BRAD, BRAD as if they were friends of yours. I thought he kept his cool pretty good.peabody99 wrote:I hate to see any comrade go down. At the moment he hit the ground he felt like anyone of us who have fallen (or may fall in future)-totally out of control, scared and pissed.
I can't figure out why he did not just ride it the heck out of there. was it damaged or was he shaken?
I only looked at (the beginning of) it because I assumed there was something more to it than just "Brad Pitt was caught on tape dropping his bike".laxer wrote:What does that say about everyone who's now talking about it and watching it?TVB wrote:The fact that some bottom-feeder was tailing him with a camera like this is... disturbing.
If being stalked by paparazzi so that people with nothing of interest in their own lives can see him fall off his motorcycle makes Pitt a more valuable actor to hire... like I said: disturbing.hal1 wrote:without us interested in their professional AND personal lives they wouldn't make 20 million per movie.
He was lane splitting - which is legal in CA. Why was he lane splitting? To escape the parasitic paparazzi chasing him is the most obvious reason (I'd be wanting to get away from them too). But lane splitting is a great way to get through jammed traffic any old time...kmtscoot wrote:... why wasn’t he in his own lane like the other vehicles...
Of course, this is just my humble 2 cents.Actually he wasn't lane splitting. He was riding between a lane of traffic and a row of parked cars. That is better known as passing on the right and is illegal in CA, just like it is anywhere else.Skootz Kabootz wrote:He was lane splitting - which is legal in CA. Why was he lane splitting? To escape the parasitic paparazzi chasing him is the most obvious reason (I'd be wanting to get away from them too). But lane splitting is a great way to get through jammed traffic any old time...
Look at the totally talentless, not terribly attractive (I don't care how beautiful she thinks she is, I am not buyin'), and only about as intelligent as your average poodle (my apologies to poodles everywhere), but for some reason that defies all logic she is still famous: Paris Hilton.TVB wrote: But I don't think it's true. The producers of Pitt's next movie won't make any additional money because of this non-incident, and they won't pay him any more because of it. The only people profiting from it are the stalker, the folks who hired him, and maybe their sponsors.
Passing on the right is legal in Wisconsin but lane splitting is not. Must be so we can get around all those tractors and beer trucks making left turns. It is perfectly legal to use the shoulder (paved or not) to pass vehicles turning left in the state of Wisconsin. Is that legal anywhere else?Dooglas wrote:That is better known as passing on the right and is illegal in CA, just like it is anywhere else.
Cars are parked in a lane, so it actually is still technically considered lane splitting.Dooglas wrote:Actually he wasn't lane splitting. He was riding between a lane of traffic and a row of parked cars. That is better known as passing on the right and is illegal in CA, just like it is anywhere else.Skootz Kabootz wrote:He was lane splitting - which is legal in CA. Why was he lane splitting? To escape the parasitic paparazzi chasing him is the most obvious reason (I'd be wanting to get away from them too). But lane splitting is a great way to get through jammed traffic any old time...
Skootz Kabootz wrote:Cars are parked in a lane, so it actually is still technically considered lane splitting.Dooglas wrote:Actually he wasn't lane splitting. He was riding between a lane of traffic and a row of parked cars. That is better known as passing on the right and is illegal in CA, just like it is anywhere else.Skootz Kabootz wrote:He was lane splitting - which is legal in CA. Why was he lane splitting? To escape the parasitic paparazzi chasing him is the most obvious reason (I'd be wanting to get away from them too). But lane splitting is a great way to get through jammed traffic any old time...
but non the less not the smartest thing to doThere are millions of people who eat this stuff up, that's why the paparazzi exists, because they can make money off of videos like this (and pictures, etc.). If nobody wanted to see it, nobody would care. It's a lot like drugs, if no one used them, there would be no drug dealers, but I don't respect either party.TVB wrote:I only looked at (the beginning of) it because I assumed there was something more to it than just "Brad Pitt was caught on tape dropping his bike".laxer wrote:What does that say about everyone who's now talking about it and watching it?TVB wrote:The fact that some bottom-feeder was tailing him with a camera like this is... disturbing.If being stalked by paparazzi so that people with nothing of interest in their own lives can see him fall off his motorcycle makes Pitt a more valuable actor to hire... like I said: disturbing.hal1 wrote:without us interested in their professional AND personal lives they wouldn't make 20 million per movie.
But I don't think it's true. The producers of Pitt's next movie won't make any additional money because of this non-incident, and they won't pay him any more because of it. The only people profiting from it are the stalker, the folks who hired him, and maybe their sponsors.
Well… the whole legality of lane splitting thing is very murky. The state vehicle codes have very little to say about it. For more, read this post.Skootz Kabootz wrote:Cars are parked in a lane, so it actually is still technically considered lane splitting.Dooglas wrote:Actually he wasn't lane splitting. He was riding between a lane of traffic and a row of parked cars. That is better known as passing on the right and is illegal in CA, just like it is anywhere else.Skootz Kabootz wrote:He was lane splitting - which is legal in CA. Why was he lane splitting? To escape the parasitic paparazzi chasing him is the most obvious reason (I'd be wanting to get away from them too). But lane splitting is a great way to get through jammed traffic any old time...
That's "lines," not "lanes." I'd say that the parked cars were not in a separate lane, but parked along a curb. (Difference being that there's no stripe in between and that traffic doesn't flow in alongside the curb when cars aren't parked there.) So what Pitt was doing was legal. Except for the part when he hits a car.Motorcycles may travel faster than traffic during congested road conditions and can travel in the unused space between two lines of moving or stationary vehicles, which is commonly called lane splitting.
ericalm wrote: So what Pitt was doing was legal. Except for the part when he hits a car.
