Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]And in Australia. I was stopped after pausing to take photos of clouds from a pedestrian overpass bridge because I was on state railway property. The letter I wrote in protest citing that I was within their own rules that I researched afterwards (and they are so broad as to allow for overzealous interpretation without recourse) was ignored. 2009/12/13 rob mcclure <rmcclure2 at woh.rr.com> > Kyle -- Same thing happened to me while I was shooting sunsets over Lake > Erie from a pier in Sandusky, OH. Davis-Bessie Nuclear Plant was just west > of what I was shooting and not even in my what I was shooting, but I got > scolded by a security cop. Ironically, a bird sanctuary lies adjacent to > the plant and I have taken many bird photos there with never an issue. I > really wonder what the legality is of these kinds of arbitrary rules? My > guess is they would fall apart if challenged in court (though I don't have > the time or money to press the issue). > > Rob > > > On Dec 9, 2009, at 11:06 AM, Kyle Cassidy wrote: > > There's this OTHER dude named Kyle Cassidy who screws up my google vanity >> searches by being very talented and prolific. He just wrote an article >> about >> police in the UK stopping people for photographing things like the houses >> of >> parlement: >> >> >> http://www.wendmag.com/blog/2009/12/08/no-photos-here-uk-police-use-anti-terrorism-legislation-to-curb-photos-of-iconic-public-places/ >> >> Perhaps not ironically, I was stopped and detained by three police cars >> this summer for taking a photo in Limerick PA that had the cooling towers >> in >> the background. They were very polite, but I was told that no photos may >> be >> taken that have the Limerick Nuclear cooling towers in them, which is >> absurd, since you can see them for fifteen miles. Eventually a guy with an >> M4 took my film and they told me not to take any more pictures until I got >> back to Philadelphia. I wonder what they'll do when they find out there >> are >> six million photos of the towers already on flickr. And even aerial photos >> on the NRC's web page.... >> >> They also told me that the week before they'd detained two guys from India >> who were seen taking a photo of the towers from the Limerick shopping >> mall, >> four miles away. >> >> >> >> You have too many cameras and you're not getting stopped by the police >> enough, >> >> Kc >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Cheers Geoff http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman