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Post by bossymom on May 17, 2023 22:16:45 GMT
Home 20 minutes after the event..... GMA |
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Post by KiwiJo on May 17, 2023 22:34:51 GMT
So Megan’s and Harry’s wedding anniversary is 19 May.
Dare I suggest they have an aim (am I bold enough to suggest a quota? 😂 No, of course not 😇 ) of headline news they get each year, and they haven’t quite got there this year yet………
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Post by don on May 17, 2023 22:39:53 GMT
Gumpism: "Stupid is as stupid does".
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Post by Bridget in MD on May 17, 2023 22:44:58 GMT
Not a hater, but Jesus, all this so people don't know where you're sleeping in NY? Umm what. A whole lot more famous people then you have to deal with that every day. If it's really that embarrassing, don't stay there - or don't go to NY. This is just utterly manufactured and yes the OP really needs to change their title as I thought there was an actual crash. The rumors are that the children were in New York, and there are no recent pictures of the children. So that’s why the paparazzi were trying to find out where they were staying…so they could get pictures of the children. And that’s why Harry and Meghan spent two hours trying to shake them… to keep the kids privacy. The pictures that they had of the couple were being sold to British outlets…not American outlets really. The British outlets are the ones that paid top bucks for these pictures. It looks like the pictures have been removed though. But whatever… nothing they can do will be good enough for some people. And just a reminder, they never said they wanted privacy. That’s what the media said, not them. Well that is sick!!! All this for a glimpse of the kids? I admit I was bummed not to get a new pic of them on thier birthdays BUT I realized we got a slew of new pics in the Netflix documentary and maybe the book (of which I’ve seen neither). |
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Post by elaine on May 17, 2023 23:01:38 GMT
I believe they kept driving because they didn't want any of the paps to follow them to the private home they were staying in. When I was followed by someone after leaving the bar I cocktail waitressed at in college, and it was evident that they were following my car - it was 2:30 am and few people were on road and I lived in a sparsely populated part of town. As soon as I knew I was being followed, I didn’t lead them home, but drove to a police station, where they followed me to and kept going. And this was 20 years before GPS navigation. If you are being followed and are afraid of leading your trackers to your house, you drive to a police station. I knew this as a 22 year old. |
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Post by scrappinmama on May 17, 2023 23:20:15 GMT
My heart sank when I read the headline. I read the article and saw a new story about this, but there is so much missing information, and the only account seems to be one sided. I'm not really a Harry and Meghan hater. Well honestly I think the entire family has issues, so it's not exclusive to Harry and Meghan. But something about this story doesn't seem right. A high speed pursuit with the police involved and they didn't pull anyone over? And in a city with major congestion on the streets and no one got video of this? And the only account is from Harry and Meghan? Sorry but I'm going to need more information before I believe this one.
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Post by heather on May 17, 2023 23:41:11 GMT
My heart sank when I read the headline. I read the article and saw a new story about this, but there is so much missing information, and the only account seems to be one sided. I'm not really a Harry and Meghan hater. Well honestly I think the entire family has issues, so it's not exclusive to Harry and Meghan. But something about this story doesn't seem right. A high speed pursuit with the police involved and they didn't pull anyone over? And in a city with major congestion on the streets and no one got video of this? And the only account is from Harry and Meghan? Sorry but I'm going to need more information before I believe this one. There is video… the paparazzi have British accents curiously enough. Their statement does not say ‘high speed chase’. It’s just another false statement attributed to them. Just like the ‘we want privacy’ claim that they never said. I truly have no desire to defend royalty and rich people. Lol. But after the last several years, I have no more tolerance for “alternative facts”. For whatever reason this couple seems to draw them out. There are so many pictures of the three of them at the event where Megan received her award. What benefit was there to getting pictures of them in a taxi? The end goal was to find out where they were staying so they could stalk them and get pictures of the kids. |
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Post by lizacreates on May 17, 2023 23:51:03 GMT
I’m not an H&M hater, but it seems they were tailed, not necessarily chased. Or am I misunderstanding? I’ve driven in NYC many times. You couldn’t provoke a chase even if you tried. Midtown Manhattan? You’d be lucky if your vehicle is moving at 10 mph. At night, you’re still plodding along.
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Post by mom on May 18, 2023 1:52:20 GMT
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Post by lisacharlotte on May 18, 2023 2:17:25 GMT
Just living their best life. 😬
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Post by myshelly on May 18, 2023 2:58:18 GMT
Just living their best life. 😬 Living their best lie, ftfy. |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on May 18, 2023 3:32:11 GMT
As I said above somewhere, the spokeswoman embellished a lot!
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Post by katiekaty on May 18, 2023 4:00:26 GMT
Ridiculous. When did 75 minutes start equaling over 2 hours? Multiple collisions avoided? Just pull over and call 911 instead of joyriding through busy New York City streets. And at the end complaint about the lack or pulling of security escort inUK is that—does that mean they should get special privileges in the US when there is no longer any standing or representation that they really have with the British royal family since they quit? Nope, not feeling sorry for them!
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Post by anniebygaslight on May 18, 2023 11:48:13 GMT
It’s a disgusting pack of lies.
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Post by peatlejuice on May 18, 2023 11:48:44 GMT
I think Harry especially has a low tolerance/high trauma response to car-following paps due to his mother's death. I do think people should be sensitive to that.
I also think their spokespeople are blowing this wayyyyy out of proportion (I'm looking at you, mister security guy on CNN who claimed it "could've been fatal" and "nearly catastrophic" spokeswoman).
And I REALLY think the paps should just leave them alone and "Spare" us from the soap opera antics of a couple C-list celebrities.
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Post by lindas on May 18, 2023 12:42:28 GMT
Now in production the next Oprah special ‘The Relentless Paparazzi”. Harry and Meghan recount their near catastrophic car chase in New York. Book to follow.
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Post by librarylady on May 18, 2023 13:03:07 GMT
I think Harry has longed for a time to be invisible.
I think Megan thought she wanted to be away from the limelight, but really misses it and keeps inserting them into stories and hopefully some attention from the press.
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Post by mom on May 18, 2023 13:44:51 GMT
Now in production the next Oprah special ‘The Relentless Paparazzi”. Harry and Meghan recount their near catastrophic car chase in New York. Book to follow. I am wondering if video clips from Backgrid will end up in the next installment of their Netflix show. |
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Post by paulao on May 18, 2023 14:21:22 GMT
I believe they kept driving because they didn't want any of the paps to follow them to the private home they were staying in. They should have pulled into a police station. Isn’t that what regular people are told to do if they are being followed? |
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Post by mcjunkin on May 18, 2023 15:12:18 GMT
I believe they kept driving because they didn't want any of the paps to follow them to the private home they were staying in. They should have pulled into a police station. Isn’t that what regular people are told to do if they are being followed? The article linked in the OP and this article say that they did go to a precinct. Sounds aggravating, but not dangerous really. They switched cars in the process. statement from private security helping them: After what Buda described as an increasingly hazardous game of cat and mouse, security moved the Duke and Duchess to the 19th police precinct on East 67th street.
From that location, a yellow taxi simply brought them around the block, back to the police station.
Buda said the pair finally made their escape when the midnight shift of patrol officers turned out in their police cars to go out on patrol and effectively caused a chokepoint on the block that allowed security teams to get Harry and Meghan into traffic and away.
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Post by sideways on May 18, 2023 15:26:14 GMT
My heart sank when I read the headline. I read the article and saw a new story about this, but there is so much missing information, and the only account seems to be one sided. I'm not really a Harry and Meghan hater. Well honestly I think the entire family has issues, so it's not exclusive to Harry and Meghan. But something about this story doesn't seem right. A high speed pursuit with the police involved and they didn't pull anyone over? And in a city with major congestion on the streets and no one got video of this? And the only account is from Harry and Meghan? Sorry but I'm going to need more information before I believe this one. There is video… the paparazzi have British accents curiously enough. Their statement does not say ‘high speed chase’. It’s just another false statement attributed to them. Just like the ‘we want privacy’ claim that they never said. I truly have no desire to defend royalty and rich people. Lol. But after the last several years, I have no more tolerance for “alternative facts”. For whatever reason this couple seems to draw them out. There are so many pictures of the three of them at the event where Megan received her award. What benefit was there to getting pictures of them in a taxi? The end goal was to find out where they were staying so they could stalk them and get pictures of the kids. Exactly this. The desire to villainize them perplexes me. |
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Post by MichyM on May 18, 2023 16:10:59 GMT
As someone who really could not care less about H+M either way, I was surprised and disappointed to see this as the lead story on NBC national news last night. Man, it must have been an awfully slow news day.... And if anyone cares, I think they and/or their PR team have become quite the attention whores (for lack of a better term). Carry on...  |
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Post by **GypsyGirl** on May 18, 2023 16:45:27 GMT
I was surprised and disappointed to see this as the lead story on NBC national news last night. Man, it must have been an awfully slow news day.... It showed up on CBS news last night as well. Something I've been noticing lately is more and more celebrity gossip is showing up on the national news. Meanwhile, you can find very little international news - unless you go to BBC, France24, etc. The US media is really slipping. |
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Post by used2scrap on May 18, 2023 17:45:47 GMT
What security team would put protected persons in the back of a public taxi cab with see through windows and a stranger at the wheel at the height of a “near catastrophic chase”?
The whole thing doesn’t make any sense to me.
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Post by oh yvonne on May 18, 2023 18:00:41 GMT
I think Harry especially has a low tolerance/high trauma response to car-following paps due to his mother's death. I do think people should be sensitive to that. I also think their spokespeople are blowing this wayyyyy out of proportion (I'm looking at you, mister security guy on CNN who claimed it "could've been fatal" and "nearly catastrophic" spokeswoman). And I REALLY think the paps should just leave them alone and "Spare" us from the soap opera antics of a couple C-list celebrities. honestly, this! I keep reading how other, more important, bigger celebs don't seem to be harassed and I honestly think they've done themselves no favors by keeping the kids in hiding so much. Just publish pics of the kids sweet smiling faces regularly and things would relax. But by making such a big deal of hiding them they've literally put a high price target of a photo of the kids. Surely, they must know this, right? I mean, come on. And then IMO they KNOW this, because of course who wouldn't figure this out, it makes me feel like they are using those kids to make them more....what's the word I'm looking for here? High value pap targets? |
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Post by scrappinmama on May 18, 2023 18:10:05 GMT
There is video… the paparazzi have British accents curiously enough. Their statement does not say ‘high speed chase’. It’s just another false statement attributed to them. Just like the ‘we want privacy’ claim that they never said. I truly have no desire to defend royalty and rich people. Lol. But after the last several years, I have no more tolerance for “alternative facts”. For whatever reason this couple seems to draw them out. There are so many pictures of the three of them at the event where Megan received her award. What benefit was there to getting pictures of them in a taxi? The end goal was to find out where they were staying so they could stalk them and get pictures of the kids. Exactly this. The desire to villainize them perplexes me. Was this directed at me? I wasn't villainizing them, so I'm assuming you are speaking in general terms and not to me specifically. As I said, I'm neither a fan or a hater. Someone mentioned the trauma response for Harry. Most definitely he has trauma related to this. Which is probably why he wants a quiet life. I just don't think Meghan is on board with that desire for a quiet life. She's an actress and some press is good for her career. |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on May 18, 2023 20:03:56 GMT
Pieces of this story are falling by the wayside...
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Post by mom on May 18, 2023 21:18:08 GMT
I am chuckling with Harry & Meghans 'demand' to turn over the photos from Backgrid. Harry and Meghan's legal team fired off a letter to the Backgrid photo agency, claiming in part they need the agency's footage of the "chase" to shore up their own security, adding ... "We hereby demand that Backgrid immediately provide us with copies of all photos, videos, and/or films taken last night by the freelance photographers after the couple left their event and over the next several hours." Backgrid's lawyer has rejected the Sussex's demand, saying in a letter ... "In America, as I'm sure you know, property belongs to the owner of it: Third parties cannot just demand it be given to them, as perhaps Kings can do. Perhaps you should sit down with your client and advise them that his English rules of royal prerogative to demand that the citizenry hand over their property to the Crown were rejected by this country long ago. We stand by our founding fathers." www.tmz.com/2023/05/18/prince-harry-meghan-markle-demand-photo-agency-give-them-footage-of-chase/I suspect Harry & Meghan aren't going to like just being 'common folk' in the US. |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on May 18, 2023 21:38:46 GMT
Entitled much??!??
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Post by onelasttime on May 18, 2023 21:51:04 GMT
And in America one shouldn’t be allowed to chase people in cars, whether it’s 2 blocks or 5 miles, to take their pictures. Nor should one be allowed to follow them to find out where they are staying so they can camp outside and make a nuisance of themselves. Or hound them at restaurants or other public places just to take their picture.
These fool photographers claim they have rights. And so do people in the public eye. I have never understood this belief that just because someone is in the public eye it means they are required to let these photographers chase them down to take their pictures 24/7.
The couple was at a public event where lots of pictures were taken. That should have been it unless they consented to posing for more pictures.
I also did a bit of reading on why the couple no longer wanted to be involved in royal duties. It was simply because they wanted to decide and not the Palace how many and what public events they attended.
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