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TV crew has bizarre encounter with Shia LaBeouf in Wyoming

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CHEYENNE, Wyoming — After spending the past couple of days tweeting out random coordinates, which ultimately led to locations around Colorado, actor Shia LaBeouf finally revealed the mystery behind his posts.

The “Transformers” star is working on an art project called #TAKEMEANYWHERE. Basically, LaBeouf tweets out coordinates each day at noon and whoever shows up at the location first can spend time with the actor, ask him random questions and then take him wherever they want.

For 30 days, LaBeouf and two of his teammates will partake on the hitchhiking adventure using Twitter to get their next ride. They’re tweeting the coordinates on LaBeouf’s Twitter page.

LaBeouf told “Vice” the project is about making friends, finding meaning and “making meaning.”

Once the project is complete, it will be turned into a documentary film that will be on display at the Finnish Institute in London and the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art.

Some people were able to track down LaBeouf while he was still in Colorado. On Monday, a group of guys found the actor in Lyons before he headed north into Wyoming.

That’s where FOX31 tracked him down on Tuesday. We didn’t expect to run into him, but we did.

The coordinates he tweeted out Tuesday led to the Southeast Wyoming Visitor’s Center in Cheyenne. When we stopped there, the visitor guide said LaBeouf stopped inside and had three cups of coffee. The guide said she had no clue who he was.

A student from Fort Collins drove up to the center with hopes of meeting the actor, only to discover he had already left.

“I was just going to kind of mess with him and see what he wanted to do,” Lindsay Johnson said.

Whoever gets to LaBeouf first gets to take him anywhere.

Whoever found him at the visitors center brought him to Ruby Juice in downtown Cheyenne. We heard about that location through a post on Facebook. It was a few hours old, so we figured LaBeouf would have been long gone.

To our surprise, when we showed up, the actor was still there. LaBeouf was not thrilled and acted frustrated. He asked a reporter to leave and told him he wasn’t interested in doing an interview.

While explaining the situation to a photographer outside the juice bar, LaBeouf got up and stormed out with his entourage. The photographer, on public property, started filming LaBeouf, but one of LaBeouf’s groupies shoved the photographer to try to block him.

LaBeouf and his crew got into a white SUV and sped off.

“I just saw the cameras and I suspected someone famous was here and I didn’t know it was Shia LaBeouf storming past me,” said Jacob Parshall, a Cheyenne resident who was startled by LaBeouf’s reaction.

This article was originally published by fellow CNN affiliate KDVR Fox 31. It is used here with permission.

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