To all the sensible residents of the Malibu area:
The following letter to a Malibu resident and business owner, represents the perception of how you fine folks on the coast are seen in the wider area around you. In addition, it includes a wee bit of common sense advice from a 62-year-old “Val” …
Dear Malibu store owner:
I read your quote in my local paper today in reference to the latest paparazzi flare up.
Refer to your quote: “The general sentiment around here is that any time a paparazzo gets his camera smashed or gets popped in the face or dunked in the water, we’re all for it.”
Sir, that’s quite a “general” sentiment around your enclave.
And that sentiment makes as much sense that it would be just fine and dandy that people who don’t like paying high prices at stores, such as yours, could go right ahead and smash a bunch of your products. Or it would be OK for you or your staff to, in your words, “… get popped in the face.”
I don’t think so.
That would be considered vandalism and assault, correct? That would be against the law, wouldn’t it? Are you getting my drift?
A wee bit of advice from this 62-year-old “Val Surfer” who’s treaded the coast for 45 years. Stow this type of chest beating rhetoric and stop rabble-rousing your young local testosterone-driven vigilantes to do what surely most sensible folks in your area would never condone. Or it may turn in to a very, very long, hot summer.
Robert Loveridge aka/ Zuma Zeke