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From today's Page Six, the Curious Case of the Paparazzo and the Out of State Plates, in which a celebrity shutterbug spent a few nights in a Pasadena jail after being caught with fake Virginia license plates on a California rental car, then blamed a local television production for inadvertently tagging the vehicle:
He claims he was inadvertently framed by the production crew of the CBS crime drama "NCIS." Although shot on the West Coast, the show is "set" in Virginia. [Paparazzo Alan] Zanger tells The Post's David K. Li that he believes someone on the set mistook his car for a prop and affixed it with the Virginia plates. "I don't think it was intentional, but I just wonder why this wasn't straightened out on the first day," Zanger says. But "NCIS" executive producer Don Bellisario says the photographer's story is poppycock: "This claim is meritless and hardly worthy of comment. That said, we don't place license plates on anyone's cars without their permission." Zanger faces arraignment Sept. 23.
Indeed, the paparazzo's "NCIS set me up" explanation sounds a little incredible. Perhaps by the time the arraignment rolls around, he can come up with something more convincing, like a story about how Nicole Richie and Lindsay Lohan stumbled out of Cabana Club, hit him in the back of the head with an empty bottle of Grey Goose, then made off with his valid California plates. We'd probably believe that one, no questions asked.
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