Celebrities and the paparazzi who photograph them have long had a strained relationship. Flashbulbs welcomed by celebs at movie premieres are annoying at the grocery store.
But what was once considered intrusive behavior by the photographers may now be construed in some quarters as criminal.

"When Lindsay Lohan got into a car accident last week in Los Angeles, police arrested a photographer for intentionally driving into her car."A crime is a crime and we are going to enforce the law," says William Hodgman of the L.A. district attorney's office.
He adds that some paparazzi have gone too far in their hunt for celebrity prey: "What is clear, at least at ground level, at the paparazzi level, is that there is a competition to get a shot, that is purchased by others, and that the intensity of this conduct is crossing the line into criminal behavior." -CBS News Online

Paparazzi are the devil to many celebrities, they are the reason celebrities have no privacy, often feel harasses and violated. but without Paparazzi we wouldn't have access to celebrity track to the extent that we do today, celebrity culture wouldn't be the phenomenon that it is, and reality TV stars would be long forgotten quickly after they were off their show. What do you think? Do you think Paparazzis are all bad? and Do you think they are responsible for celebrity culture being as huge as it is?