Jessica Alba shark attacks downtown Oklahoma City
Jessica Alba (Associated Press photo)
Jessica Alba has created a great white fuss in downtown Oklahoma City.
The actress apparently decided to hang some posters of great white sharks around downtown over the weekend. The posters are evidently part of awareness-raising efforts by a conservation group/person called White Mike. Since Oklahoma is land-locked and thus has little impact on the fortunes – good or ill – of great white sharks, it seems a strange place to put the posters.
But presumably she figured since she was in the neighborhood – she, Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson and others have been filming the movie “The Killer Inside Me” in Guthrie over the past few weeks – she would put up posters.
The problem: She put them on electrical boxes and a United Way billboard, among other spots. And she used a powerful glue that makes them hard to remove. The city regards the posters as vandalism, and the Parks & Recreation Department has filed a complaint with Oklahoma City Police.
You can read the full story and view the police complaint over at NewsOK by clicking here.
Alba issued an apology to the citizens of Oklahoma City and the United Way that read in part, “I got involved in something I should have had no part of.”
You can click here to go to my colleague Steve Lackmeyer’s OKC Central blog and read what OKC Mayor Mick Cornett thinks about the situation, which manages to sound more surreal by the moment.
I saw one of the infamous shark posters in downtown Oklahoma City this afternoon, posted on what I believe is an electrical box in front of Ford Center. Without any signage or lettering, they do look pretty incongruous in OKC. Unless the “Saturday Night Live” landshark has suddenly been declared an endangered species (or is staging a comeback), I don’t think we’re going to get much shark action around here.
Steve and NewsOK host Dave Morris provide additional light-hearted insight into “Sharkgate” (or maybe it should be “Albagate”) in this NewsOK video:
-BAM
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Comments
This is the strangest story, but I have to disagree with Jeff. I have no problem with the content of the posters (although it is a little odd to put them up in a land-locked state), and I certainly have no problem with the lovely Ms. Alba.
Sorry, Jeff. I think a better solution to “get over it, leave them up, and invite her back to do it again” would be to remove the posters that are causing problems and instead maybe arrange for her to put her posters up in local businesses. After all, lots of business owners would love the publicity and she could get her message out.
Or perhaps she might be persuaded to participate in some sort of event at the Zoo. I’m sure sharks aren’t the only animals she is concerned about and I think it would be an appropriate venue. I think the most important thing to her would be that her message, which has gotten lost in all the commotion, would find a receptive audience there, and it wouldn’t give anyone reason to file complaints.
Just a suggestion, anyway!
If I was the Mayor, I bill the film company for the cost of removal of the posters, then I would tell them to take their toys and leave and never come back. And yes, I would file criminal charges against Jessica. Just because she is pretty and a celebrity does not give her the right to do what she did. It’s okay to have a cause you believe in, but that does not give you the right to deface other people’s property. It was childish and criminal. They should make an example of her to let others know we mean business in Oklahoma.
I live here…I like the posters…please OKC we look like idiots now, she did a good job with the posters (well minus the United Way Billboard that is). Get over it, leave them up, invite her back to do it again.