Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/07/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Indeed so. I look more than suspicious. I was once, many years ago,
hauled off an El Al flight from Nairobi to Lod because I looked
suspicious and gave the address of a famous relative as my destination
in Israel.
Buzz Hausner
-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+buzz.hausner=verizon.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+buzz.hausner=verizon.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf
Of Dan Post
Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 10:12 AM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: Re: [Leica] Photo student harassed in Seattle by Homeland
Security
Buzz-
I looked up 'SUSPICIOUS' in the dictionary- I suppose the photo of the
man
shown there was of you!
Gosh, you sure do look suspicious! :o)
Dan
----- Original Message -----
From: <buzz.hausner@verizon.net>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 8:28 AM
Subject: Re: Re: [Leica] Photo student harassed in Seattle by Homeland
Security
> You know, I have been arrested and harassed all over the world for
taking
photographs. Maybe it's just me and maybe I just attract authority
figures.
The first time I was run in, I was fifteen and taking pictures on the
IRT in
New York in 1965. I have been "arrested" for taking innocuous pictures
at
Entebe airport in 1975. I was arrested for taking pictures of a ship in
Dar
Es Salaam harbour. I was detained for taking pictuires of railroad
tracks
in Bulgaria in 1970. Several other such incidents have befallen me.
Photographers have been given a hard time for doing their job probably
since
Daguere. Are there any serious photographers out there who HAVEN'T been
arrested,detained, or otherwise hasseled byu some authority prior to
September 11, 2001?
>
> Buzz Hausner