So here's the deal; our photographer was watching Paris Hilton as she sat in her horrid Hummer limo across the street from the Chateau Marmont on Halloween night. Inside were 5 or 6 girlfriends, her sister Nicky, Brandon Davis and according to our photog, the music was blaring and smoke was pouring out of the windows.

Paris didn't see our photog on the street and she was hanging out of the car window, on the phone screaming at Stavros (who was inside the Chateau with Lindsay Lohan):-

I'm sitting here with a bunch of idiots; I've been with them for 3 nights and I'm sick of it!-If you're not out here in five minutes, we're not f*cking tonight!-You better get your ass in this car, you f*cking asshole!

Paris' bodyguard and driver get out to stand in front of the window and cover up Paris because they both see she's being recorded by our photog. It still takes Paris a few minutes to realize what's going on -- Stavros finally comes out to the car, Paris stops crying, and then she realizes X17 was in her presence.

She calls our photog over in a quiet voice saying, "Come here, I want you to shoot something." The photog approaches the car and Paris keeps drawing him closer, whispering that she has to tell him something. He gets close, and she starts screaming, "Give me the motherf*cking tape!" He tells us she looked like the Exorcist -- she grabbed his camera and they were both tugging. Paris breaks off the light and our guy falls backward on the ground.

Now here's where things get wacky -- our guy wants Paris to pay to fix the light and Paris is still screaming to get the tape. The girl's always been cool to us in the past and the pressure from the driver and bodyguard and Paris and everyone in the car must have gotten to our photog and he gave it up. And he certainly hasn't gotten any word from Paris that she'd fix the light she broke. If only we could have shown you the "other side" of Paris ... she's not all kindness and Hello Kitty.