Re: [Leica] my SHOES -- 100% leica related absolutely ON TOPIC

["J. Gilbert Plantinga" <gilplant@hvc.rr.com>]

on 12/30/01 6:46 PM, kyle cassidy at kcassidy@asc.upenn.edu wrote:

> some of you probably think "how can kyle's shoes be leica related?" but most
> of you probably already know that i am just pickled leica energy, anything
> that touches me is ON TOPIC. and in this case, my shoes. since a few of you
> either:
> 
> a) doubted the veracity of my acquisition
> b) begged to see the very rare size 12 bruno's
> c) told me to take it to alt.archery and stop bugging them
> 
> here's a photo of my bruno magli's, most likely worn by nicole brown
> simpson's real killer, but absolutely 100% leica related:
> 
> http://www.netaxs.com/~cassidy/bruno.jpg
> 
> which brings up an ethical question. you take a photograph of a celeberty
> comitting a felony; a serious, extremely violent crime. a policeman
> approaches you immediately afterwards and says "i noticed you got a photo of
> that. if you publish it, it will be very problamatic for an ongoing
> investigation and might destroy months of undercover police work. please
> don't print it." but you know that PEOPLE magazine will pay through the nose
> for the shot. considering that you're not on assignment for a magazine, you
> just happened to catch the image on the way to the acme. later your
> approached by the celeberty's publicist who says "we'd like very much for
> that photograph never to be published. we're willing to pay you a fair
> market price for the negative and your promise that it will never see the
> light of day."
> 
> what do you do?

Nice shoes. Scan that sucker to cd and stash a bunch of dupes with iron
mountain in redundant locations.

g.

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