Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi, You can't win. I had a similar experience photographing the May Day fun & games in the West End. The police thought I was trying to get evidence against them in their handling of the demonstrators, the demonstrators thought I was a police spy. Damned silly idea really considering the real police photographers are in uniform using armour-plated F5s, or hovering overhead in choppers. Why would they need to send an overweight middle-aged berk like me into the midst of a disturbance? Great thing about photographing this sort of event though is that with 3 cameras around your neck you can wander through the police lines at will without being shoved back into the crowd. Cheers, Bob >From: John Brownlow <john@pinkheadedbug.com> > >Ha ha. This happened to me in London recently. I was on Oxford Street and >this nice homeless guy walks up to me and says: "you might as well go home, >you know. Everyone knows you're a policeman". He wouldn't hear of anything >else. Ironically, 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. > >Incidentally, I was looking really scruffy. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com