According to the NY Daily News, photographers are quitting their jobs over the violence and chaos that ensues when they try and get a snap of Britney Spears.

The problem has increased since Spears was first hospitalized, and to add to the pandemonium, some say that some photo agencies are now hiring LA gang members ‘Crips’ and ‘Bloods’ to take the photos, because well, you just don’t f*ck with them.

Whether this is true or not remains to be seen, but some in the industry insist it is true.

Veteran paparazzi from the Splash agency, Nick Stern, who recently quit his job said, “I’ve heard stories of fights, of car tires being slashed, cars being blocked in.”

NY Daily News says of all the agency heads it spoke with, none admitted to hiring the thugs.

Frank Navarre, founder of X17 says that, “They may dress like gang members with large pants and tattoos, but to say they’re gang members right now, well, real gang members are not into Britney Spears.”

INF agency head, Chris Doherty doesn’t subscribe to the gang mentality. “Britney Spears attracts huge numbers of photographers, and whoever muscles their way to the front gets the best picture. They’re not AP photographers wearing flak jackets, but that’s not to say they’re thugs, either.”

Brad Elterman, owner of Buzz Foto, says that after Britney’s first hospitalization he doesn’t want his cameramen chasing her through the streets of Los Angeles simply for a photo.

“It’s too dangerous. She goes through a yellow light, you go through a red. People break laws. I tell my guys now, ‘Don’t speed, don’t chase, and stay away from Britney Spears.’”

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