RANT: Vulgar Wealth Blocks SoHo

I read a silly little piece on Yahoo News this morning which had the ability to irk me. It was regarding Will Smith and a movie trailer the size of the Battlestar Galactica. Turns out that the residents of a certain neighbourhood in SoHo were up in arms because of the ginormous personal trailer that Will Smith had parked in the street.

The actor is in NYC doing shooting for the latest "Men in Black" instalment. You know, just another reason for the overrated actor to make another few tens of millions of dollars.

The New York Post reported how his 53-foot double decker trailer had so blocked the street that businesses were losing money and traffic was affected. That's roughly 28 metres long for those of us in the rest of the world who use the metric system. Residents in the area, true to Noo Yawk form, were furious and very vocal about it. He finally had to move his $9000 a week trailer (that's right, $9000 a week just for a lousy freaking trailer) up the street to a parking lot where it will now be docked.

A local public official made the hilarious comment that, "Hardworking New Yorkers have a right to wake up in the morning and not find a cruise ship parked out in front of their house."Too true! Not to mention a Hollywood star with clearly an ego the size of Manhattan to boot strutting about.
The poor little thing with his goofy grin and cauliflower ears now has to walk a full mile between his trailer and the set. Poor little munchkins.

Oh, and he also has his own $25000 a month apartment just a mile away. You know, as we all do when we're in these where-the-hell-do-I-park-my-53-foot-personal-trailer issues in life.

Who the fackula are these people?

Who are these twerps who prance around sets and make (some of) us laugh and be entertained for a couple of hours and JUST FOR THAT become these multi-multi-multi-millionaires who behave as if they were born this way and that their behaviour is simply so utterly normal and so, you know, earned, dude, you know, like.

It is this obscene, vulgar display of such conspicuous wealth, inevitably shoved in our 'plebian' faces with utter brattish contempt, that makes me so bloody angry. Not to mention want to smack a useless turd like Will Smith to within an inch of his life. Or get the Mafia to do it for me.

It is not cute, it is not funny and it is not just 'a little thing' to be shrugged off. It is symptomatic of just how warped our times have become when a Hollywood star sees fit to park a 53-foot trailer in the middle of SoHo.

Does this gormless idiot not realize there is still a recession going on in America? Of course he doesn't - he lives in the stratosphere, pissing down on the rest of us with his opulent and charmed-beyond-belief life. It's rather fitting, then, that he's shooting a film about aliens.

Does he care? Clearly not a damn. Thing is, neither would I if the masses were to one day get hold of super-rich f***ers like this and show them a thing or two about mob justice. Or just call in the Mafia.

Do you get my point?