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Mounties Team Up With Vampires
by Ryan Porter
The B.C. production of Twilight's sequel has RCMP protection.
The Mounties--front line warriors against drug smugglers, busters of counterfeit money schemes, getter-er of men--have faced their most important assignment to date: defending Twilight's Robert Pattinson from screaming tweens. On the Vancouver Island set of the vampire drama's sequel, the Mounties have been responsible for keeping overexcited fans away from the set.
"Everything went well on the first day but then a group of teenage girls got a little too close when the filming moved to the Long Beach area of the island," Constable Brendon Baillant told Radar Online. "They were totally miffed with us when we told them that they could not get any closer." Kristin Stewart calmed them down by posing for photos.
In exchange for Canada's police service's noble work defending Hollywood's valuable heartthrob community, the film's producers donated $3000 to a Mountie charity that gives sports equipment to schools. Don't tell them that they'll stand there for free if you just set up a little table with TimBits.