Brad Pitt motorcycle accident

hal1 · Post by **hal1** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 7:59 pm

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

ScootStevie · Post by **ScootStevie** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 8:04 pm

hal1 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

Everyone has their bad days

laxer · Post by **laxer** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 8:12 pm

At least he's wearing a helmet, jeans, and gloves. Just don't lay it down next time!

hal1 · Post by **hal1** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 8:24 pm

I guess it's that it happened while splitting a pale and parked cars that makes me smile

Skootz Kabootz · Post by **Skootz Kabootz** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 8:38 pm

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.

TVB · Post by **TVB** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 9:54 pm

The fact that some bottom-feeder was tailing him with a camera like this is... disturbing.

laxer · Post by **laxer** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 9:57 pm

TVB wrote:The fact that some bottom-feeder was tailing him with a camera like this is... disturbing.

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.

DennisD · Post by **DennisD** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 10:07 pm

THE FIRST RULE OF BRAD PITT'S MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT IS...

Thadsgood · Post by **Thadsgood** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 10:12 pm

(Dennis D)THE FIRST RULE OF BRAD PITT'S MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT IS...

um....have Angelina Jolie at home to nurse your wounds?

rsrider · Post by **rsrider** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 10:46 pm

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.

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!!!

hal1 · Post by **hal1** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 11:07 pm

laxer wrote:
TVB wrote: it's part of what you sign up for as a movie star.
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.

peabody99 · Post by **peabody99** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 11:58 pm

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?

dakotamouse · Post by **dakotamouse** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 1:29 am

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 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.

kmtscoot · Post by **kmtscoot** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 1:34 am

Thanks for the heads up on the commercial. I muted my audio and so didn’t have to suffer through it. I’m sorry to see anyone take a fall. Even a movie star. But my first thought was to wonder why wasn’t he in his own lane like the other vehicles. That didn’t look like a good idea. If cars were tied to slots down the middle of their lanes, like the old slot car racers, it’d be OK. But in the real world a couple of inattentive drivers might just mash him between them. I’d just stay in my lane.

TVB · Post by **TVB** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 1:39 am

laxer wrote:
TVB wrote:The fact that some bottom-feeder was tailing him with a camera like this is... disturbing.
What does that say about everyone who's now talking about it and watching it?

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".

hal1 wrote:without us interested in their professional AND personal lives they wouldn't make 20 million per movie.

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.
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.

Syd · Post by **Syd** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 3:32 am

Maybe someone can get Brad to post on MB!

Skootz Kabootz · Post by **Skootz Kabootz** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 7:46 am

kmtscoot wrote:... why wasn’t he in his own lane like the other vehicles...

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...

Major Redneck · Post by **Major Redneck** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 8:09 am

He really made hitting a parked car look hard... I seen the slowmotion clip on TMZ tv (your link is no longer avalible,,,and they said he did brake the sideveiw of the car,,, the bike would not start so he left it and had someone pick the bike up and haul it off...

To me hes not that good an actor,,, and a worse scootdriver...

DennisD · Post by **DennisD** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 3:14 pm

Don't blame the paprazzi, they're only giving what a large part of the American public wants. If there wasn't a market for their product, they wouldn't exist. To many, celebrity is qualification for anything. Good, bad or ugly. Silly empty headed Americans.

Of course, this is just my humble 2 cents.

Dooglas · Post by **Dooglas** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 4:31 pm

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...

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.

Vic · Post by **Vic** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 6:01 pm

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.

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.

The only reason that....is "famous" is because she continually does things to keep the paparazzi interested in her, they are only interested because the public want to see what crazy thing Paris is up to now and so the sponsors pay for it to get at the public.

Anything to get in front of the cameras and have their name on people's lips adds to their fame level.

I am not saying that Brad is anywhere near the kind of disgusting glory hound that PH is, but the idea is the same. It's all marketing.

-v

gr8dog · Post by **gr8dog** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 6:09 pm

Dooglas wrote:That is better known as passing on the right and is illegal in CA, just like it is anywhere else.

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?

Skootz Kabootz · Post by **Skootz Kabootz** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 7:04 pm

Dooglas wrote:
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...
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.

Cars are parked in a lane, so it actually is still technically considered lane splitting.

ScootStevie · Post by **ScootStevie** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 7:32 pm

Skootz Kabootz wrote:
Dooglas wrote:
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...
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.
Cars are parked in a lane, so it actually is still technically considered lane splitting.

but non the less not the smartest thing to do

tonks001 · Post by **tonks001** » Tue Nov 03, 2009 9:05 am

I saw the video of what happened. That's one cool bike and Brad's riding it. Good thing he's safe.
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laxer · Post by **laxer** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 1:49 am

TVB wrote:
laxer wrote:
TVB wrote:The fact that some bottom-feeder was tailing him with a camera like this is... disturbing.
What does that say about everyone who's now talking about it and watching it?
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".
hal1 wrote:without us interested in their professional AND personal lives they wouldn't make 20 million per movie.
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.
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.

There 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.

peabody99 · Post by **peabody99** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 2:34 am

maybe if he had been driving a scooter none of this would have happened.
Much better for evading paps

Post by **ericalm** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 2:34 am

Skootz Kabootz wrote:
Dooglas wrote:
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...
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.
Cars are parked in a lane, so it actually is still technically considered lane splitting.

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.

Still, here's what's in the state Motorcycle Driver's Handbook:

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.

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.

iwabj · Post by **iwabj** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 4:14 am

chloefpuff · Post by **chloefpuff** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 2:41 pm

I saw a pic of Pitt yesterday in Japan to promote Inglorious Basterds, and he is allegedly shopping for a new ride to replace the one destroyed, yes DESTROYED in the paparazzi incident.

Actually I laughed when I saw the video on tv because outside of the vulture involvement, it amused me. It seemed kind of lame.

jmazza · Post by **jmazza** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 3:31 pm

ericalm wrote: So what Pitt was doing was legal. Except for the part when he hits a car.

peabody99 · Post by **peabody99** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 9:36 pm

the interwebs are indicating he is in the market for a new bike since the one in the accident was "trashed"

(here is one article, but not the one where he said "trashed" http://www.etonline.com/news/2009/11/80498/ )

really, WTH? it was barely dropped. He needs something more durable and nimble, like a scooter. Someone get in touch with his people.

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