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Jun 23 2008

Naomi Campbell Gets Verdict That Proves She is Better Than Everyone Else!

Published by katieanne at 6:53 am under Current Affairs, Europe, celebrities Edit This

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.

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4 Responses to “Naomi Campbell Gets Verdict That Proves She is Better Than Everyone Else!”

  1. pinkinkon 24 Jun 2008 at 3:44 am edit this

    Celebrities should be held to the same standards us “normal” people are! The fact that they are not held accountable as often as they should be annoys me as well.

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  2. LOUon 26 Jun 2008 at 3:45 am edit this

    im totally sick of seeing “celeb’s” get away with this sort of behavour that in normal society is so highly unaccepted. by letting people likeher off so lightly its setting and example to people who then think they can behave like that and get away with it lightly just like she does. i think its desgusting that just because she gets paid to have her pic taken she gets let off so lightly, what exactly makes her better than everyone else? more importantly better than the law? if celebs were punnished properly for things like this it would publicly set and example to thosands of people showing them what happens when you break the law like this. typical example of society letting us down and playing favoritism to people with higher status than others. they say money cant buy you happiness but apparently it gives you the right to assalt people for no reason and get away with it!

  3. brandbla8on 14 Jul 2008 at 12:01 pm edit this

    I would agree that they should behave just as the rest of the public. They are human like everyone else and are no better in any way.
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