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What constitutes an invasion of privacy?
I'm on the official John Barrowman mailing list and was disturbed by something I saw there. Apparently, I could have read this wrong, someone saw John walking his dogs near his home and followed him home. The person in question said she didn't stand there and snap pictures and that there were no signs that said keep out. From the tone of her post, it sounds like she's going to go back and stare in his backyard again unless he expressly says not to. That's borderline stalker behavior.
Let me get this off my chest, and then you guys on my flist can tell me I'm wrong. It's none of my business where a celebrity I like lives. If I happen to run into them on the street, or in a store, that's one thing. I've run into celebrities a few times when I worked at Barnes and Noble. I was always polite and professional knowing that they were there shopping and not there for me to drool over or harrass for an autograph. If I bumped into someone on the street or in a restauraunt, I would gauge the situation to see if it was an apporpirate time for asking for an autograph.
At no time would I ever follow someone home and decide that now that I know where they live it's okay to keep going by their house whenever I feel like it. Someone on the Barrowman list pointed out that John's partner Scott did not ask for people to start following him around just because the man he loves is famous. What if one of their nieces or nephews happened to be visiting? Just because Uncle John is a celebrity is no reason for their privacy to be invaded. And it is also an invasion of John's privacy.
Bottom line, public situations are one thing. If you want to ask someone for an autograph when you run into them on the street, at a store, in a restuaurant, whatever, that's your choice. Following them home is stepping across a fine line.
Let me get this off my chest, and then you guys on my flist can tell me I'm wrong. It's none of my business where a celebrity I like lives. If I happen to run into them on the street, or in a store, that's one thing. I've run into celebrities a few times when I worked at Barnes and Noble. I was always polite and professional knowing that they were there shopping and not there for me to drool over or harrass for an autograph. If I bumped into someone on the street or in a restauraunt, I would gauge the situation to see if it was an apporpirate time for asking for an autograph.
At no time would I ever follow someone home and decide that now that I know where they live it's okay to keep going by their house whenever I feel like it. Someone on the Barrowman list pointed out that John's partner Scott did not ask for people to start following him around just because the man he loves is famous. What if one of their nieces or nephews happened to be visiting? Just because Uncle John is a celebrity is no reason for their privacy to be invaded. And it is also an invasion of John's privacy.
Bottom line, public situations are one thing. If you want to ask someone for an autograph when you run into them on the street, at a store, in a restuaurant, whatever, that's your choice. Following them home is stepping across a fine line.
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euuuuuuuuuuuuuuum.... *shocked*
Bottom line, public situations are one thing. If you want to ask someone for an autograph when you run into them on the street, at a store, in a restuaurant, whatever, that's your choice. Following them home is stepping across a fine line.
Amen~
*still in shock*
what gave her the right to just deside that his private life was any of her business? *shakes head*
it's these kind of fangirls which gives us other fangirl a bad reputation... *sigh*
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*shudder*
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On a lighter note, I love your icon!
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*icon love ftw* ;D *g*
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There are a lot of people who feel entitled to whatever they want; I don't get where it comes from, or why they think that merely existing justifies whatever they want. It doesn't say much for where our society is going.
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* is totally shocked * Really inappropriate behavior and she wouldn't like it doing to her.
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I don't know what she's thinking. It's crazy. I'm not sure what the laws are in the UK and what he would have to do to keep her away. Hopefully the reaction she got on the list will help clue her in that it's not appropriate behavior.
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Creepy and scarey.
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Personally I think a restraining order is needed. It would be nice if people who consider themselves fans could be respectful of the celebrity they follow. How would they feel if people came and stared at their back garden?
Elememnts of the Barrowfen went particularly batshit all round last weekend mind you. Its all quite unpleasnat at times and a shame for the bulk of the fans who do behave.
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I went to Sully on Monday morning. I saw two of John's dogs running around
outside. I did not go there hoping to see him, just to see where he lived. I did
not invade his or Scott's privacy. I walked by and then went back to Cardiff.
It does not say she saw John himself or followed him home. She just walked along the Public footpath that runs along the back of his property.
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Also, the other day in town I was out with a friend and her 2 kids who are both under 4 as well and 2 Japanese Tourists took our photos! I was quite pleased because they then gave the kids some money!!
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