"Breaking Bad' fans throwing pizzas onto house featured in TV series

Friday, March 13, 2015
ALBUQUERQUE (WABC) -- Fans of the popular TV show "Breaking Bad" are being just plain bad.

The house that appeared on the show as belonging to the character "Walter White" is owned in real life by Frances Padilla and her husband.

They're frustrated because fans of the popular series keeping tossing pizzas on their roof. They're recreating a key scene, but it's gotten so bad that show creator Vince Gilligan addressed the situation in a podcast.

He blasted fans who are tossing pies, saying there is nothing "original or funny or cool about throwing pizza on this lady's roof."

"Most people are respectful," said Frances Padilla. "It's the few idiots that come, that think they're entitled to do whatever the hell they want, and it's not gonna happen.



"What they don't understand is that this is a private residence and it's really frustrating."

Padilla added that she would be prosecuting trespassers.
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