Jun 23 2008
Naomi Campbell Gets Verdict That Proves She is Better Than Everyone Else!
Superbrat supermodel Naomi Campbell has just pled guilty to a number of assault charges including assaults on a police officer. The reason for her anger? Her flight was delayed and it cost her an expensive modeling contract? She missed a runway show? She had a sick relative dying in hospital that she was trying to reach? Oh no, for Ms Campbell it would appear that the airline losing her luggage was all it took to get her into such a state that she was violently abusive.
Most of us check-in our luggage at the airport hoping that it makes it to the same destination as we’re going sometime before the end of our vacation. We know to spread out clothes and medications so that we aren’t left bereft whilst the airline tracks down what it did to our luggage that we had watched being carefully tagged for the same plane as we were headed. So tell me, what makes this so call celebrity so blasé that all of HER stuff is going to land in the same place as she does every time? And when it doesn’t, what on earth tells her that the most appropriate behavior was that which she displayed at Heathrow Airport on 3rd April this year?
What annoys me about this whole case – no pun intended – is that someone without her celebrity status would be being made to answer to their over-reaction. They should be cooling themselves in a jail cell learning a bit about humility, afterall it’s hardly the first time she’s been charged with violent behavior. Instead she’s been given a pat on the head, some community service chores, told not to do it again and fined what amounts to pocket change in damages. Peter Yiacoumi the Magistrate’s Chairman said that credit had been given for her guilty pleas and previous good character. Excuse me? Previous good character? Have her previous abusive behavior cases been lost by the airlines also?
This kind of one rule for celebs and one rule for the rest of us makes me sick! The irony is that her solicitor is quoted as saying “all my client wanted was to be dealt with as if she was anybody else”. As far as I can ascertain she was one of thousands of “anybody elses” who lost luggage around that time and so was treated exactly the same. Where she differed however was in the punishment she received for her unwarranted extreme and totally unacceptable behavior, behavior that would have anybody else facing far more serious legal repercussions.
