Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/07/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Ted, I'm absolutely agree with you, this is too sadly, when I was a child we did similars games as you, but this is not the same. Thanks for looking and commenting mon ami, Cheers Lluis El 31/07/2009, a las 1:28, Ted Grant escribi?: > Lluis showed: > > Subject: [Leica] Street games > > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/Barcelona/L1004239bw.jpg.html > > http://tinyurl.com/nz7arx > > > > Hi Lluis, > > When I was a kid living in Toronto, Canada. We were always playing > "Cowboys > & Indians" harmless games without thought of being "PC" correct. > Why? Well > it wasn't a big deal, I might be one of the Indians for an hour, get > killed > a half dozen times, then we'd get an ice cream cone or soda pop and > when we > started again I'd be a cowboy! All simple kids shouting "bang I got > you!" > Note: rarely did we ever use the word "Killed " you! > > > > Today we see kids playing like this with "toy guns" that are so real > police > officers can't tell the difference until they have it in their > hands. Or in > a very very sad case a young boy has been shot because he made it > look like > he was going to shoot an officer. > > > > Yours is an interesting photo because so often today in newspapers > or TV we > see young boys like this one with a real weapon, "AK47 or machine > pistol" of > some kind, but it's the real thing and they really kill rather than > yelling > out."Bang I got you!" > > Them were the good old days of childhood imagination and not the > realties in > killing today. Too bad. So sad! > > ted > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information Lluis Ripoll luisripoll at telefonica.net http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/ http://photo.net/photos/lluisripoll Blog: http://lluisripollphotography.wordpress.com/ http://www.lrmusic.es