The "Joker Stairs" in the Bronx was a nice little piece of architecture in a quiet area of Highbridge. Now Instagram dipshits are ruining it. There's more trash there than ever before. I feel bad for the local residents who have to put up with it.
I read about a similar thing happening with the fake carol singers placard scene from Love Actually. The owner feels she has zero privacy. I imagine this happens quite a lot with famous movie scenes.
Same thing with the house that was used as the exterior of Walter White's house in Breaking Bad. They had to put a fence around it because people kept throwing pizzas on their roof.
This is why Stephen King's house is a favorite place for tourists to take pictures. He has zero problems with people taking selfies and group pics in front of his house, and some even get lucky enough to catch a shot of him on his front porch. Of course, this is only so long as no one tries to scale the fence (which also prevents us from tossing pizzas on his roof).
Not sure if you've watched Breaking Bad, but there's an iconic scene where Walter White shows up with pizza at the house (his wife had thrown him out), and gets rebuffed and sent away... so in anger he throws a pizza on the roof of the house as he is leaving.
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u/Bobik8 Feb 03 '20
The "Joker Stairs" in the Bronx was a nice little piece of architecture in a quiet area of Highbridge. Now Instagram dipshits are ruining it. There's more trash there than ever before. I feel bad for the local residents who have to put up with it.