Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 31/7/00 6:39 pm, Ted Grant at tedgrant@home.com wrote: > John Brownlow wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>> i think it was the same day, another homeless guy, not >> quite so nice. came up to me *pretending* to be a plain clothes policeman >> and demanded to know what I was doing.<<<<<<<< > > And Johnny boy, Just what did you tell him to do? ;-) > ted It was a bizarre conversation. He kept saying 'I'm a plain clothes policeman' and I kept saying 'No, you're not'. He asked for my ID - I told him I didn't need any - and I asked for his. He reached into his back pocket very confidently and fished out... an empty cigarette packet. At this point I think he realised the game was up, and he apologised. I told him he didn't have to (because I thought the whole thing was funny and in any case I think people have a right to ask me what I'm doing, even if they are pretending to be a policeman). But he apologised anyway. At one point I thought he was going to get nasty. The whole thing started because I was photographing some kids in a bus stop and I think he thought I was a paedo or something. I told him I photographed everyone, not just kids, and that seemed to take him off the boil. - -- Johnny Deadman http://www.pinkheadedbug.com