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Celebrities Are Just Like Us, Except They Can't Drive

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Yesterday's news that a photographer chasing Britney Spears on a motorcycle was injured when he was hit by a car driven by another photographer was just the latest in a string of horrific incidents that have made victims of poor paparazzi and other completely innocent bystanders. Radar runs down the casualty list in the celebrity-paparazzi war, a shocking percentage of which involve Britney Spears.

October 2007: As she is leaving the parking garage of a Los Angeles courthouse, Spears rolls over the foot of an L.A. County Sheriff deputy before fleeing the scene. No bones are broken, but the deputy is said to be "hobbled."

October 2007, a week earlier: In what is now officially a trend, Spears runs over the foot of a paparazzi as she is attempting to leave a medical center where she has received a collagen lip injection. Footage of the paparazzi's sock imprinted with a tread mark turns up on TMZ. Coincidentally, the incident occurs on the same day Spears settles a hit-and-run lawsuit.

March 2007: Outside of a Manhattan nightclub, Lindsay Lohan, an actress not known for her prowess behind the wheel, runs over an unsuspecting paparazzi with her BMW. He crumbles to the ground and is rushed to the hospital, where he claims to suffer debilitating back injuries. Lohan, who miraculously is sober at the time, is eventually vindicated when video footage reveals that the photographer threw himself in front of the Herbie: Fully Loaded star's Beemer as she was making a .5 mph getaway.

November 2006: After learning that two paparazzi had infiltrated a purportedly "closed" movie set, Denise Richards hurls a couple of laptops off a balcony in Vancouver, one of which hits an 80-year-old lady in a wheelchair. In a move that hints at the faintest semblance of humanity in our society, the lady declines to press charges.

June 2004: Snapper Cullen Reavley claims to suffer injuries to his "head, neck, back, trunk, and extremities" after—surprise!—an SUV carrying Britney Spears runs over his foot. He sues in 2006 for "unspecified damages" in excess of $25,000.

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