DaEyeGuy@xxxxxxx wrote:
> The best was purely happenstance. In the early 70's while in college and
> taking a photography course my roomie and I would often roam the campus with
> our cameras to get candids. One afternoon two guys came up to us, flicked a
> badge at us, and stated that we were breaking the law by photgraphing a
> federal building and to get in the car, that we were under arrest. They
> claimed to be "undercover". While my roomate would have docilely gone along,
> I was a State Trooper's daughter and was not intimidated by the fact that
> they called themselves policemen and demanded to see the badge up close...he
> waved it from a distance the second time and flicked it back into his pocket,
> and when I started yelling and calling for help they took off running. We
> laughed at them for being such jerks. The next day we heard that two guys had
> abducted and raped a coed on campus and I went in and helped with a sketch
> artist. It was only a week later when I was developing my B&W prints for
> class that I discovered that the two idiots had inadvertently been clearly
> photographed by me as they were approaching the area I was photographing! I
> made 8 x 10's of the shots and took them by the police, and they were
> apprehended shortly thereafter. You just never know when you'll get the next
> weirdo or "book repository" shot!
>
Wow.
--
"I have a dragon and I'm not afraid to use it!"
Dirk Wright
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