Neighbors Upset About Porn Movie Production On Easter Sunday

[matcom]

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Los Angeles -- On Easter Sunday, inside the million-dollar houses on a quiet cul-de-sac in Encino, the neighborhood kids delighted in what the Easter Bunny had brought.

Then, about 10 a.m., the porn stars showed up.

Helaine Gesas, who has lived on Hayvenhurst Avenue for 38 years, was cooking when she noticed men hauling cameras and lights into the two-story house across the street.

Neighbor Kerry Cohen, a paralegal and mother, was on her way to organize a charity event. As she squeezed past several large production trucks, Cohen saw scantily clad women heading toward the same house.

As far as John R. Johnson was concerned, "that was the end of Easter Sunday."

Johnson, another neighbor, told his 9-year-old daughter to stay inside while what he described as a "prison-yard break" -- a large film crew, many of its members covered in tattoos -- entered the house in the 3600 block of Hayvenhurst.

Outraged, Johnson called the city seeking to halt the porn shoot. But everything, he was told, was perfectly legal.

In any given year, about 3,900 adult films are shot in Los Angeles, according to industry estimates. As with any other shoot, those films obtain permits from the city. But the city doesn't restrict the content of the projects it approves.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/0...

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. Fucking puritan asshole fuckwads.

"Easter is ruined" - what fucking bullshit.

It's only ruined because of their emotional and spiritual immaturity.

[BigMcLargehuge]

4. it was probably the guy in the bunny suit that threw them...

[Rabrrrrrr]

14. Because he needed a fluffer?

"Hey, that guy in the bunny suit has a kind of windsock thing going on there, daddy"

[Darth_Kitten]

12. Well, everybody wants to live in a nice neighbourhood.

Nothing wrong with that?

People are uptight because they don't want their children subjected to porn?

call me a puritan.

[Rabrrrrrr]

13. They're not being subjected to porn - they're being, at worst,

subjected to the clothed versions of people who work in porn.

For Christ's sake, so what if the kids see some people in tattoos and skimpy clothing?

Goddamn, all ya gotta say as a parent is, "Looks like they're making a movie - how exciting!"

and when the kids ask "What movie?" you say "I don't know."

Not to be rude, but to call this "being subjected to porn" is pure puritanical assholery.

[GirlinContempt]

17. Based on what I've seen in LA

and the fact that these people live there, the kids probably see just as bad or 'worse' weekly. I am referring, of course, to some girls in skimpy clothes and guys with tattoos.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

2. Oh no! The film crew was covered in tattoos?!?!?

SAVE THE CHILDREN!!! DOESN'T ANYONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN????

[ScreamingMeemie]

3. Funny story...Many of these production companies like to use the L.A. Zoo

for their backdrops. Waterfalls, lush trees...the whole bit.and they usually do it without pulling permits and just work around the crowds... We went with our kids and my brothers a few years ago. They were filming a "scene" between two "lovers" ( a breakup scene) and my brother kept intentionally walking in front of the camera shouting,"Hey kids, come check out these monkeys!!" and the like.

[underpants]

5. OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD

Now THAT'S some religion!!!!!!!


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[BigMcLargehuge]

6. Neighbor - and what do you do ma'am?

Crewperson - "I'm the Easter fluffer"

Neighbor - Does that mean you keep the bunny's hair soft and free of burrs?

Crewperson - "Something like that..."

[matcom]

7. and you locked my vanginal-tightening thread

"Easter Fluffer"

[NewJeffCT]

8. were they filming indoors?

If so, then who cares?

[Crazy Dave]

9. Grand Theft Auto

Remember it was all over the news that you could hack the game somehow and see a nude scene? Remember the outrage including Hillary Clinton threatening to do a CBS, Janet Jackson, thing to the gaming industry?
Imagine if you will...a nude scene in the middle of a game where the object is to run people over, shoot people, buy drugs and I think even slap a few women around. All that other stuff was okay with them and okay for the kids, but once they found out the kids might be able to see a nude scene...god forbid.

[bleedingheart]

10. snicker...a guy named "Johnson" is upset with porn...

bwahahahahah

[Haole Girl]

11. That's Life in the Big City! n/t

[Deja Q]

15. Jesus must've been crying buckets that day...

[Strong Atheist]

16. I see both sides of this debate...nt.

[xchrom]

18. i NEVER live across the street from the interesting houses!

[realisticphish]

20. no shit

my neighbors are old people and farmers

[realisticphish]

19. Awkward?

yes. But hardly something to get worked up about

the heathens weren't fornicating on the lawn, or anything. And the prison-yard break ( ) comment kind of seals it for me. I guess they're used to the help keeping the riff-raff out of the neighborhood

[Hugin]

21. They need better gates on that community...

I'd hate to run into one of the residents out in the free world.

[kid a]

22. i saw that movie - it was furry