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Paris Street To 'Shut Out Instagrammers'
Instagrammers love the colorful homes in Paris's Rue Cremieux. But residents of Rue Cremieux have now had enough and are calling on the city council to restrict access at certain times. From a report: Residents have asked the city council to provide a gate that can be closed at peak times -- evenings, weekends and at sunrise and sunset, when good light attracts people searching for a perfect Instagram picture. One resident told radio station France Info: "We sit down to eat and just outside we have people taking photos, rappers who take two hours to film a video right beneath the window, or bachelorette parties who scream for an hour. Frankly, it's exhausting."
RTFA, residents want to do this, no action as described in the headline has been approved. More sensationalism on this site than buzzfeed recently...
..."Streisand Effect" in French? Le Effect de Streisand?
I'm glad to read that Instagram users have gone from annoying local trend to global menace. Maybe the U.N. will finally start taking my proposal to "Hunt Instagram Users To Extinction" seriously. ;)
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Now let the (color-) coordinated photobombing begin!
Seems like a rapper could easily afford some house paint.
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Maybe you should have thought of that ... before you painted your houses to be visually unusual.
Maybe you should have expected that I'd despatch two shotgun shells worth of rock salt into your buttocks before you became the 19658th instagram drone to photograph my house this year. Now ... uh, how do you shout ... get off my lawn! in French?
Seems like a rapper could easily afford some house paint.
Yes, but rapper paint only comes in gold.
"Get off my lawn in French" is roughly:
I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!
"How disruptive can it really be to have people take photos ni the street?"
Very.
Tourists are the most annoying people in existence.
Coincidence?
Envy.
No. The french are. On all continents.
This has worked wonders in other parts of Paris.
Move a few hundred refugees into the area. Within a few weeks, the area will be so covered in urine, feces, and general garbage that no one will be wanting to go near the place for Instagram or anything else for that matter.
Problem solved.
Rappers don't have any money, despite what you might see in their videos.
The latest one accused of rape couldn't even come up with bail money.
how do you shout ... get off my lawn! in French?
I think it is something like "lItHa' lawn!" Waving around something sharp or pointy would help empathize the message.
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to be honest, if people were a nuissance around where I LIVED, I'd be pissed off, too.
people have a right to 'quiet enjoyment' and while that does not always imply low-noise and silence, it means that people should not be hounded by strangers when at home.
a man's home is his castle; people do believe that. you have to put up with a lot of shit at work, but at home, you should be able to have peace and quiet.
so, I understand and agree, in general.
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They weren't asking for a law, rather a gate.
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I wonder what attracts the Instacretins to just this street? It's reasonably picturesque for Paris (most of which is actually kinda dull), but nothing special compared to any small French town, which will have dozens of streets much prettier than this.
Mind you I guess that's a feature, keep the Instacretins in Paris and not spoiling lovely French towns elsewhere.
If you are offended by someone taking a photo of your street, then don't live in the middle of a tourist attraction.
I'm guessing this has only become a major problem in the last 10-20 years. There may have been a few tourists snapping pictures even before that, but probably not as many or as obnoxious about it.
Paris has enough of a problem integrating immigrants - maybe they just want to put up gates around the entire centre? On the other hand, this is a clickbait article in the first place as nobody but a few residents has proposed this idea.
Dude, if I get photographed every other minute without getting paid for it, the 5th person doing it will have a hard time swallowing his cell phone. It's gonna go down easier for the 6th because I'll crush it first.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Is that like "Maybe you should have thought of that before putting on that miniskirt"?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Pardon my French...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Imagine you're sitting down to have dinner and every other minute some bozo steps in front of your window and takes a picture of you. Of course with flash, even in broad daylight, because he's too lazy and/or stupid to figure out how to turn it off.
I'd like to see how you enjoy your meal.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
True. The only tourists more obnoxious are the ones from the US.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I can sense a 'Street Streisand Effect' will reverse the intention of the Rue Cremieux restrictions. (I'd never even heard of this place.)
Furthermore, the photographers will swarm the place now, while they still can. I'll call this the Cartier-Bresson Effect.
Yes, kids, a Frenchman invented street photography.
Drones are going to get regulated to near extinction at this rate. Between airports and other areas where safety and security are an issue, and people wanting privacy on their own property, the demands for restrictions will be irresistible.
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Yes, because obviously she wore that micro mini skirt, which shows the bottom of her butt-cheeks, for herself. She wanted to feel confident and pretty, and that thick layer of paint splattered over her face has no sexual connotations.
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That's why you can't have nice things.
If you are offended by someone taking a photo of your street, then don't live in the middle of a tourist attraction.
So, what you're saying is... you can't have nice things.
You're right. I don't waste my time on people like that. I have people for that.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Here is what the place looks like, and why so many people want to take pictures there.
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If you mean R Kelly then I think it's a tad unfair to suggest that "Not having $1m" qualifies as "don't have any money".
There'll be some top linked site to a shitty Google search term like 'must see in paris' that includes idiocy like "Oh you absolutely must photograph this street, look at these awesome houses"
Everybody goes, "Oh, I better do that, and I can post it on look-at-me-gram"
source: too fucking many websites telling me to photograph this or that street in this or that city.
Shrug, he doesn't want people to stare at his legs he shouldn't wear a miniskirt.
If he's in public then photographs will also be taken, posted online, accompanied by comments like, "Now that's a pair of legs" and "He should do commercials for tights".
That's what you meant, yeah?
Sorry, no.
Generically US tourists are terrible but specifically when it comes to the taking of photographs the Chinese win by a serious margin. Streets ahead, if you'll excuse the pun.
Tourist: Nice street, I'll take a photograph.
American tourist: Get out of my way, my $5000 camera will take a better photograph than your shitty cellphone if you can all just move
Chinese tourist: Is the one stood in the way taking a selfie with their shitty cellphone, or using video chat to show their mother the street with them in it, oblivious to the disruption they're causing to other tourists, the locals and even each other
No one else cares about your pics. NO ONE.
If I lived there, I'd be really ticked, too.
Or maybe I'd put up a big sign: this building is copyright by me, and no photographs allowed. Or maybe "you may only take pics on payment of royalty fees of $10 per picture, and $100 per minute of video."
Or maybe just a mobile phone jammer in the street.
<sarcasm>Yes, because raping someone is exactly the same thing as photographing the outside of someone's house.</sarcasm>
You have a fundamental right to not be horribly abused in psychologically scarring ways. Even if someone's attire makes him or her more likely to become a victim of rape, the act is still so clearly heinous that the responsibility falls on the rapist.
But you don't have any inherent right to avoid every slight little nuisance. When someone's actions make that person's house more likely to appear in photographs, the act is so harmless that the blame for any resulting annoyance falls squarely on the homeowner for being so bothered by something that most people would see as harmless and then asking the government to do something about it because they can't even be bothered to close their blinds.
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Maybe you should have expected that I'd despatch two shotgun shells worth of rock salt into your buttocks
Maybe you should rethink making threats of physical violence against people who are standing on a public street taking a picture. In most civilized places, discharging a firearm at someone who is no threat to you and is in a public place is a CRIME.
They weren't asking for a law, rather a gate.
A gate to close off a public street. One assumes that there would already be a law that would prohibit "unauthorized public people" from just opening the gate when it is trying to shut them out. While it would not technically be asking for "a law", it is asking for an existing law that currently doesn't apply to their street to now apply to their private little bit of the public Paris landscape.
The question is if they're gating off the only entrance or just the easy entrance.
Lots of gates around here on public streets to stop through traffic usually while still allowing the fire department etc entrance. Residents have to take a roundabout route to get to their residence. I take it there is a law about breaking the cities locks, not that I've ever heard of it happening.
I can also think of decommissioned roads that are gated, though the residents have access from one side of their property instead of 2 sides.
Lots of forestry roads gated off that the city maintains as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism
They should probably just start "accidentally" dropping things on them. Start with cold water as if you were just dumping excess. Then go from there...
Its because he don't sell drugs. All of the rich rappers minus eminem still sold drugs until they made it. That's the real struggle.
Do you have to be wearing a white jumpsuit and a mask too?
I kind of wish I hadn't commented. This is way better than the shit I was saying it needs +funny.