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Subject: Re: [OM] Photography in "public" places
From: "John A. Prosper" <prosper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 17:08:54 -0500 (EST)
On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Gregg wrote:

|When I was much younger I drove onto private property to photograph an
|estate from the hilltop overlooking the place.  A security vehicle came out
|and took my down license number etc.  The next day a local police car pulled
|up to our house while I was away.  Seems the estate had been robbed the
|night before.  I had no alibi!  Luckily, the perpetrators were caught as I
|couldn't have proven I wasn't there.  I have more respect for keep out signs
|now.

With the proliferation of crime a self-respecting photographer cannot
even skulk around in peace anymore! ;-)  Maybe it would be worthwhile
to join one of those photography associations so you can show a
membership card to allay the suspicions of gullibly challenged!


|From: Keith (R.K.) Berry
|
|
|> I've had very few experiences of being accosted for photographing in
|public
|> places, the most memorable being when I'd just taken a shot of a window
|> cleaner carrying his ladders in the centre of Walsall, Staffordshire. Two
|> men seized me by the shoulders, thrust CID warrant cards in my face and
|> asked me why I was taking pictures. "Why shouldn't I?" I asked. "We think
|> that burglaries round here are being planned with the aid of photographs
|of
|> buildings and we'd like to know what you're up to," said one of them
|
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