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Tyra Takes The Stand

Emily Farris — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:32:00 GMT

VIA THE REMOTE ISLAND: Ms. Banks will testify this week in the trial of her (alleged) stalker, who (allegedly) followed her across the country and (allegedly) made her and her staff fear for their safety.

This guy is clearly crazy and very frightening. But for a man described as a "hulking drifter", he sure can clean up. He's got a sweet court ensemble, perhaps to impress all the people watching the satellites that he believes are constantly watching him...

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Tiffany Stalkers!

Colleen Kane — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:45:00 GMT

We cover all sorts of fetishes, obsessions, freakazoids, and preverts on Scanner, but somehow until now we had yet to cover the Tiffany stalkers. The documentary I Think We're Alone Now follows the lives of two obsessed fans, 50-year-old Asperger's sufferer Jeff and 35-year-old intersex person Kelly, and the very dark lives they lead, judging by the ultra-creepy footage in the following film trailer.

Now I'm going to have to cut this post short because I need to see this movie immediately thxbai

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Erykah Badu's Stalker

Colleen Kane — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:36:00 GMT

Erykah Badu kept everyone (including Scanner Brian) waiting for her free show at SXSW last week, but she had a good reason. Some obsessive wack job was camped out outside her house.

She twittered it, too, under her handle "fatbellybella": "Police just apprehended a stalker in front of my house. Stay tuned to details."

Here are some of those details...

Driving to Austin now. Just got on road .. Had to file police report .

Poor chic is apparently sick . I feel so awful . Police pepper sprayed her and cuffed her .

White woman mid to late 20's had visited my home 3 or so times . Brought w/ her weird writtings .

I was kind to her first 3 times . I knew something was off . She was wearing a dilla shirt today .

When I came outside she had flowers lined up in front of my house and had spray painted the no parking sign with a peace symbol .

She had several misc. Items spread out in the grass . Blue shutters, a rabbit, a tucan , and a sketch book...

I'm gonna be late for my show ... Messing around with her .

Passing thru Waco now...with dilla played loud .

So .. The lady came to the house 1st time today around 1pm .. After light threats from me and fam she left . Was parked ok the grass in front of my house

So she comes back 30 Min later .. By this time I feel violated for real .. Cause o girl wasn't threatened at all .

Had no choice but to put the ipolice In it . Tried to reason . I felt so bad for her and her dog .

When she saw cops she took off running behind neighbors house
... Obviously she had been to jail b4 cause she wanted no parts of that

By this time there were 6 cop cars , ambulance and a fire truck ..

3 officers chased her on foot whole we all watched .

She finally comes " walking " calmly around corner toward one cop car with that big ass dog

Cop snatched her hand behind her back and she began resisting violently..

Damn I'm late

Hold on my people .

... Anyhow, all I could think of while all this is going on is .. I'm gone be on media take out .. LOL

... Or bossip.com

Scanner Brian adds: "It seemed strange that no one mentioned she would be late. Her group came out without her, late already, kept chanting her name and then abruptly left the stage right at 8pm. The lights went down, so everyone left, angry. As we were at the exit gate, Badu suddenly took the stage, played two songs, and disappeared again. Apparently, they had run out of time and still had to get Explosions in the Sky onstage. Oh well, whatever."

When cops pepper-sprayed, then arrested the fan outside Badu's house, the stalker had arranged various items, like blue shutters, a rabbit, a toucan and a sketch book. Ummm, we would have called the cops, too.

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Mom Films Her Boyfriend Having Sex with Her 13-Year-Old Daughter

Brian Fairbanks — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:55:00 GMT

The Sun reports today on the case of a 46-year-old Perth, Australia mom (well, until they take the daughter away from her, of course) who allegedly videotaped a 29-year-old man having sex with the mom's thirteen-year-old daughter.

And the video might have stayed under wraps, had the man not blackmailed another woman, a victim of his internet stalking...

Cops allege the girl's mother was also involved in the video and will appear in court next week.
She faces 19 sex offence charges.
The man has appeared before magistrates accused of having sex with the 13-year-old and recording the acts.
The man has been charged with more than 150 counts of distributing child pornography and having sex with an underage girl and was granted bail today.

Good Lord, did some Billionaire put up an island as collateral? How the hell was his bail low enough that he was able to meet it? One hundred and fifty counts-- and this doesn't even include the stalking, it seems.

The crimes came to light when early last month police say they received a complaint from another woman who said she was being stalked on the internet.
Perth policeman Sgt Greg Lambert said: "An unknown person was sending her emails that contained naked pictures of herself in the shower."
"The woman was threatened that the pictures would be posted on the web if she reported the matter."

When the po-po dropped by the idiot perv's house to check his computer, they found his exploitative video and probably beat the shit out of him. At least, we hope they did... although, if not, we're sure his future inmates will know what to do with this creep.

Via the Sun and News.com.au.

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Sloppy Seconds: The Body Found Outside of Paula Abdul's Home

Emily Farris — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:05:00 GMT

American Apparel is back in this news, this time because an employee was fired after he refused to inflate figured on the company's balance sheet. [WSJ]

With the economy sucking your bank account dry, would you consider "donating" an egg for $8,000? [The Frisky]

Say what you will about those naughty Miley Cyrus pictures for Vanity Fair; Annie Leibovitz doesn't give a fuuuck. [Jezebel]

Us Weekly seems to be a little uncomfortable dealing with the fact that Lindsay Lohan called Barack Obama "colored." [Us]

The body of a suspected stalker was found dead in her car outside of Paula Abdul's Los Angeles home. [People]

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Kim Kardashian And Carmen Electra Size Each Other Up, Wrestle, Cuddle

Brian Fairbanks — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:44:00 GMT

"Disaster Movie": a title like that is going to give the same critics (including yours truly) that trashed "Date Movie" and "Meet the Spartans" lots of ammo for their brutal headlines.

Luckily, Carmen Electra and Kim Kardashian, the film's stars, couldn't give a big, hot, reality star's ass what people think of their movie. Although they do worry about the stalkers and photographers, as they reveal in a couple of creepy-as-hell stories...

Are you guys able to walk around in public without being hassled? Do you ever have experiences with people coming too close to your space?

Electra: I had a weird experience when I was working at MTV. We were shooting an opening of a new restaurant or something. And we were in a different city. I flew in, and I was all by myself because it was one of my first jobs. And I didn't have anyone with me at all. I flew in, and the driver picked me up and took me to the hotel. And there was a guy in the lobby with a clipboard. He said he was from MTV and sort of had the rundown of my schedule and took me up to my room and was in my room with me. I was hanging out with this guy for the entire day. And finally the phone rings and I said, "Answer it," because I was getting ready. And the people from MTV freaked out because they didn't know who he was. It turns out he was a stalker, so they arrested him.

Kim, it probably helps that you always have a reality TV crew following you...
Kardashian: Yeah. But I was in New York last week on my way to the airport, and the driver was taking me. And I fell asleep. And when you're so tired and you fall asleep and your mouth is open and you do not look normal. I woke up to all these flashes. And the driver was turned around driving on the freeway, taking pictures of me sleeping. I was so freaked out.

Electra: Oh no. That's not cool. But I'm sure you sleep beautiful [laughs].

Kardashian: I was drooling down the side of my face [laughs]. I took his camera.

On the rumor mill... how ever do things like this get started:

Kardashian: There was this huge new rumor going around that I got arrested a few days ago for lighting a raccoon on fire. And they had all the paperwork and the documents that I was arrested [laughs]. It was just so bizarre. I don't even know where they came up with that. It was like in Compton, too. I don't think I've been to Compton.

In a separate story, Carmen talked about how their wrestling scene for the movie, which unfortunately begins existing nationwide on Friday, turned her into a Kardashian fan:

She says, "I really got to know her in our wrestling scene... We get into some down and dirty positions, so it's a good thing we became friends. Kim is so cool, not to mention being hot." [Starpulse]

Woody Allen, are you getting this? If you think there should have been more lesbo action between Scarlett Johansson and Penelope Cruz in your (otherwise excellent) new movie, why not do a sequel with these two?

Of course, we're kidding. Woody has better taste than that... we hope.

Via MovieFone.

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Sloppy Seconds: Why Does Oprah Look So Scared?

Emily Farris — Fri, 02 May 2008 21:56:00 GMT

We're kind-of sad to report that the Marilyn Monroe sex tape has been "fully debunked" by the FBI, whatever that means. [Radar]

Maybe it's the band geek in us, but we got way too excited over this video of synchronized metronomes. [Didn'tYouHear?]

Uma Thurman's stalker says he "didn't mean to scare her." [Yahoo!]

Paula Abdul thinks no one understands her. Um, she's right. [People]

But not to worry, her job is safe. [MTV]

Tom Cruise and Oprah revisited the whole jumping on the couch thing today and she confessed to him, "I was a little nervous coming up this morning, I have to admit, because you and I have not sat down for a real conversation since the sofa incident.". [Us Weekly]

While You Were Sleeping: Is Rob Lowe A Dirty, Old Flasher?

Emily Farris — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:42:00 GMT

Laura Bush readied herself for her Today Show guest hosting gig. [NPR]

Ashlee Simpson would like you to know that her womb is none of your business. Which we think totally means she's pregnant. Or she had an abortion. Or not. [MTV]

Cameron Diaz's 58-year-old father Emilio died unexpectedly of pneumonia. [US Weekly]

Bearapalooza: road trips, big hairy men and country music. Sign us up! [Bearapalooza]

Hey remember Debbie Gibson? Yeah, so does her stalker. [TMZ]

Supermodel/ scary person Naomi Campbell tried to give blood to help fight a dengue fever epidemic in Brazil, but officials turned it down, for now. [Yahoo!]

The last of Walt Disney's original team of animators, known as the "Nine Old Men," died. [Yahoo!]

Rob Lowe's nanny is accusing him of exposing himself to her, repeatedly. If Rob Lowe showed us his penis, we probably wouldn't sue him for it, we'd probably just laugh. Maybe that's why the nanny looks like she's going to bust out laughing during her entire interview with Meredith Viera. Luckily Meredith asks the tough questions. [MSNBC]

Crazy Stalker Attacks Obama

Brian Fairbanks — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:10:00 GMT

A disturbed man who claims he only wanted a picture with Barack Obama stalked the Senator throughout a day of campaigning in Philadelphia today. The man was eventually prevented from reaching the Democratic Presidential candidate by the Secret Service after the stalker confronted Obama three consecutive times.

Why the Secret Service didn't body slam this man on his second attempt to reach the very patient object of his desire is beyond our comprehension. Is it illegal to fuck up idiots who'd waste the free time of the future leader of the free world? And if it is illegal, I doubt anyone would bust them for sucker-punching this punk.

Here is the full, unedited video, which we cannot embed yet for some reason: ABC News. If you can't watch videos or can't understand what this shrill assmunch is going on about so passionately, read the full story here.

We braced ourselves throughout the entire video for a gun to come out and for a very, very horrible moment in history to occur. Why no one else sought fit to raise an alarm until many minutes in is unfathomable.

Who the Hell is Spokeo and How Does He Have My Email Address?

Emily Farris — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:39:00 GMT

I, Scanner Emily, have been trying to make myself less "available" online. I've made my social networking profiles private, and deleted the ones I no longer use (so long, Friendster, the summer of '04 was rockin!). I even changed my phone number because it was just a little too easy to find online. I thought I was doing well, feeling kind-of anonymous and mysterious (you know, for a blogger) and then I received this email from "Spokeo":

As a courtesy, we are notifying you that Spokeo users have found the following accounts for you:

     Flickr ee**** on Flickr
     Amazon Emily ****** Farris's Wish List on Amazon
     Pandora emilyfarris on Pandora

If you would like to make these accounts private, please
change the privacy settings on the original network and
Spokeo will update its search results to reflect your changes.

To find your friends on Spokeo, signup now.
http://www.spokeo.com

First of all, I don't even know what Pandora is, and second of all, creepy? How did this program even get my email address? And what is it?

You want to know what it is? It's a website that makes it even easier for people to stalk you online. Not that we've not done our share of e-stalking, but we did it the old fashioned way with Google and MySpace. But this is your one stop stalker shop:

Do you know how many of your friends blog on MySpace or upload photos to Flickr? We don't think you do.

Spokeo searches popular networks for your friends' blogs, photos, videos and music. We guarantee you'll learn something new about your friends.
Do you know how many of your friends blog on MySpace or upload photos to Flickr? We don't think you do.

Spokeo searches popular networks for your friends' blogs, photos, videos and music. We guarantee you'll learn something new about your friends.

Gee, thanks, Spokeo. We'd write more but we have to go erase our electronic footprint.

[Spokeo]

Sloppy Seconds: What is Claudia Schiffer Doing Half-Naked With That Kid From "Third Rock From the Sun?"

Emily Farris — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:33:00 GMT

Finally! A male teacher in New Orleans has been accused of having sex with a student. Well, we don't mean "finally" like that, it's just that there have been lots of female teachers doing it and the ladies need a break.

Tyra Banks' stalker is back on the prowl. He was arrested after multiple failed attempts to enter her New York studio. We have a feeling this is not the last we'll see of him; he's bi-costal, and apparently not shy.

In case you haven't already done this yourself, someone put Lindsay Lohan doing Marilyn Monroe next to Marilyn Monroe doing Marilyn Monroe. Now that we've seen Lindsay's shots a million times, it's interesting to see them juxtaposed with Marilyn's. [via Fleshbot]

Claudia Schiffer and Joseph Gordon-Levitt get down in the current issue of GQ. [via FameCrawler].

How's the weather where you are? Because apparently it's raining McCain. Hallelujah? Warning: you might need to press mute a few seconds in. [via BoingBoing]

And You Thought You Spent All Day Dealing With Idiots

Emily Farris — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:07:00 GMT

We have a highly intelligent, yet under-employed friend who is currently getting paid to respond to MySpace fan mail for a busy hip hop artist we've never heard of but who is apparently "on the verge." So we asked him to send a few of these messages along. It's amazing what people will send when they think they're talking to a busty artist. And it's even better when we know they're sending them to a skinny white boy with a beer gut and rosy cheeks...from Kansas.

hi ____ its me yor 1 fan [x] i jess whant to say thank you so much letin me be on your myspace i love so much your 1 fan [x] ps xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo love u always

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Subject: Breaking The Law

I'm turning you in.... yes I'm calling the cops on you. I talked to three of your employees and they all have complaints. Beauty says that she shows up everyday on time and doesn't get a break, Sexy says she's been working for you for over ten years and hasn't had a day off and Intelligence says you give her more work then anybody else. How do you plead? :-)

H- highly
I- intelligent
P- people
H- honestly
O- overcoming
P- poverty

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"send me an IM... my IM is starkille**."

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[From a teenage female fan:] Yes i luv u ...no homo.....

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P.S. I was wondering if you have the time if you could go by my myspace page & sign my guestbook? I would be so flattered if you could.....smile

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Subject: hey baby
Body: Hello beautiful, how was your day?

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Im just dropping by ro say that I really really love you...so so much, you are my sister

Your songs make my cry but its a joyous cry , girl

Well, talk to you later
Love you.....

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H3Y THANX 4 THA R3QU3ST

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wuz good ma??? wat cha name is???

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[The following is a pretty typical rave about any one of her songs, all of which are as vague as fortune coookie fortunes]: I love this song and the video this song just tells my whole realtionship story with my ex-boyfriend!! I thank yo so much for making this song and video!!! And I know I'm not the onii on who fells this way about that song!!!