The Further Parking Misadventures Of Brett Ratner
Yesterday, we posted a report about the suspect parking habits of our favorite fauxteur, Brett Ratner, who seems to think that his lack of a natural-born facility with a camera constitutes a "handicap." Shortly thereafter, another report highlighting Ratner's questionable parking ethics promptly rolled in:
That Rather spotting was no one-trick gimp grift. In fact, that first handicapped spot in front of the restaurant door at Fred Segal's Cafe Mauro might as well be reserved for Brett. And, really, the round wheel of the handicapped logo's wheelchair on the sign is roughly a pictogram for Rather's ample frame anyway. So let's call that a name plate. To further the facade, he bribed some *star* struck lackey to actually give him the requisite blue hang tag for the rear view mirror. And it almost matches the color of his Bentley. As my most recent dining companion there noted "What a dick move. Its the kind of thing that's going to drive someone to key that car." Who's going to take the first swipe?
We'd never recommend that anyone take such a rash action, as the touch-up paint on a Bentley undoubtedly costs more than our car. A disapproving cluck of the tongue, or, if you're feeling particularly feisty, coughing the domestic box office of After the Sunset into your fist should serve as a fitting rebuke.
After the jump, another reader reveals that Ratner's insatiable lust for convenient parking is not limited to the consumption of handicapped spots.
on friday night my buddy and i were walking into the tower video store on sunset blvd when a black bentley came out of nowhere speeding into the circular walkway right in front of the entrance. and parked there. not only is that not the handicap spot, its not even a spot at all. someone could have been run over. and we almost were. then who gets out of the driver seat but none other than brett ratner. a really hot girl got out of the passenger side. another girl and guy got out of the backseat. they all came into the store behind us and ratner just seemed like a kid in a candy store. and from the looks of it, it seems like he would have been even happier if it had actually been a candy store. i overheard him asking where his movie 'after the sunset' was when he didnt see it in the new releases section. then he immediately started stocking up on dvds and my buddy heard him ask someone he was with if he already had the movie 'death with smoochy' or not. guess not cause he ended up buying it along with like 10 other random movies. then he sped off even faster than he got there. hope nobody got hurt.
Nobody got hurt? We all hurt when celebrities laugh in the face of the social contract, inching us ever closer to a anarchic society where cars can be abandoned in the middle of La Cienga while their privelged owners pop into the the Beverly Center for some light shopping.