Police: 'Vampire Diaries' Actresses Flashed Drivers,5 Charged

[Whisper]

ATLANTA --

Five actresses and a cameraman from the CW show “The Vampire Diaries” were arrested and charged after police said the actresses were dangling off a Georgia overpass and flashing drivers.

Several drivers called 911 on Aug. 22 to report seeing the young women flashing drivers on I-75 from the side of the Rumble Road overpass just north of Macon.

The women told Monroe County authorities they were just filming for the show.

Deputies arrested cameraman Tyler Shields, 27, and actresses, Nina Dobrev, 20, Sara Canning, 22, Kayla Ewell, 24, Krystal Vayda, 23, and Candice Accola, 22.

They were charged with disorderly conduct and released on bond.

According to the Atlanta-Journal Constitution, no one involved would comment.

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/20859053/detail.html#

[drkeegee]

Hummm, on the bright side they get a little free publicity for the program - and how fortunate - just in time for the new fall season.

I'm just curious how they managed to miss getting in the time slot for each time zone. Oh well.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

This is from The Smoking Gun, but many other news sources report similar:

[...]
The women, four of whom star in "The Vampire Diaries,"... were nabbed on August 22 after cops received numerous 911 calls about "females hanging from" the Rumble Road Bridge in Smarr, a town about 65 miles south of Atlanta (where the drama is filmed). The women were also reportedly "flashing motorists" driving northbound on Interstate 75.

According to a Monroe County Sheriff's Office report, the actresses were being shot by photographer Tyler Shields, whose digital cameras were inspected by a cop who discovered numerous images showing "the females hanging, sitting and straddling the bridge." One photo, a deputy noted, "even showed one female being held by her legs by the other females, as if they were trying to throw her over."
[...]

Shields laughed when TSG told him how cops claimed that one actress was dangled from the bridge. "They have a flair for the drama," he said. "I didn't Suge Knight the cast of 'The Vampire Diaries.'" The photographer, who said the group "never did anything remotely bad" during the shoot, told TSG that he paid $4000 in fines to settle the charges against the group.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive...1vampire1.html

Sounds like drivers freaked out over kids "hanging out" on the bridge. If the photog had notified the authorities before hand, it probably would not have been a big deal.