Apparently Oklahoma City gets a double whammy. It may see its fair share of lightning strikes, but now, the shark attack is on! Jessica Alba is on the hunt in Oklahoma City. She is staying downtown during the filming of The Killer Inside Me with co-stars Kate Hudson and Casey Affleck. Trying to bring a little green awareness to Oklahoma, Alba apparently ticked off the Oklahoma City Parks and Recreation Department. She glued a bunch of posters with pictures of great white sharks, absent of any verbiage about the significance. The posters are from a conservation group, White Mike, which Alba is involved in, trying to increase shark awareness.
Quite a sight on the streets of Oklahoma City, about as far away from an ocean as it gets in this grand old country. The city is calling it vandalism. Jessica glued the posters to walls, utility boxes, and even a United Way sign downtown. The glue is apparently very good glue, and city workers are having a hard time dismantling her "public art."
So a Hollywood star comes to Oklahoma City and decides to express herself by placing giant posters of sharks all over the city? Perhaps Alba is trying to get into her role a little better, really letting go of the killer inside her. Personally, I am excited to hear that the filming of a major flick is happening right around the corner, but, Oklahoma City officials are calling her a "high maintenance guest." She didn't exactly make a good impression, did she? A United Way sign? One of the biggest non-profit organizations in the world? Covered with an evil shark poster?
It seems that Jessica felt our landlocked city needed a little piece of the sea. One thing is for sure, objective achieved: shark awareness has definitely infiltrated into Oklahoma City. The semi-scared-of-sharks Sooners are now deathly afraid of the carnivorous beasts and have cancelled all water-front resort vacations. One resident says he prefers to take his chances with lightning.
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