A woman in Muncie, Indiana is suing CBS and Jack Osbourne because her home was mistakenly raided during the taping of an episode of reality show Armed & Famous (if you don't remember the show, it had C-list celebs like Osbourne and Erik Estrada as cops arresting people).
She's suing for $1 million, and named in the suit along with CBS and Osbourne are a Muncie police officer, the Muncie police chief, the Munice mayor, and the production company.
I think this could be a good thing. I encourage more people to sue over reality shows. Maybe then the networks will see them as a bad thing and we'll see a lot less of them. Nah, that wouldn't work. They'd just make a reality show about reality shows being sued.
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6-05-2007 @ 4:43PM
Brent McKee said...
Let me get this straight: is she saying that her house was raided solely because of the reality show, or that by having the reality show filming the raid on her house hurt her reputation with friends, family, co-workers etc? And why sue Jack Osbourne at all?
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6-05-2007 @ 8:50PM
Jen said...
This article (http://tinyurl.com/2tr5sn) actually explains the story.
Quoted from the article:
"It alleges that around 12:30 a.m. Dec. 12, Muncie police officers -- including SWAT team members and Osbourne -- entered Lyndsay Clements's home in the 800 block of West Main Street under the belief that she was harboring a fugitive.
They handcuffed Clements in her nightgown for 30 minutes, according to Sutherlin, and ransacked her apartment while production crews filmed the activity.
"At some point, the police determined they were at the wrong address and without explanation or apology, immediately left the vicinity," the suit alleges.
Footage of the incident, including officers gaining entry into the apartment, appeared on Armed & Famous Jan. 11with no explanation of the police mistake, the lawsuit said.
The footage that aired, however, did not include Clements herself, Sutherlin said.
The lawsuit alleges that police violated Clements' civil and constitutional rights, including protection against unreasonable search and seizure, and that the city acted negligently in failing to properly train the celebrity cops."
Maybe you can link the story in your post.. so that there are more details. It was intriguing but didn't go anywhere.
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6-05-2007 @ 10:50PM
Will Teullive said...
She should drop the lawsuit and just be thankful it was Jack who raided her home and not Ozzie. If it was Ozzie her parakeet would be missing it's head right now.
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