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Earlier today, we'd expressed a now very naive-seeming wish that WGA members and the Companies they're protesting might find a way to get through the remainder of the strike without further incidents of unnecessary, cause-undermining violence. It is with considerable sadness that we note KTLA's story (video here or here) about a renegade band of Guild picketers, who, upon receiving word of an in-progress Desperate Housewives location shoot earlier today, marched on the set, hoping to disrupt filming.

But when they found that peaceful picketing alone proved ineffective in achieving their chaos-sowing goals, they raided the house inside which star Eva Longoria was shooting a scene, taking the actress hostage. Unfortunately for Longoria, an ABC executive visiting the set refused to negotiate for her release, defiantly telling her Guild captors, "Go ahead and fucking kill her. You want Teri Hatcher, too? We're shutting down production tomorrow anyway, and we'd be happy to get out from underneath their contracts." Longoria, we fear, may never be heard from again.