Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]"David Medley" <dmedley@whidbey.net> wrote: >Just where is it you live where you will be stopped and questioned by authorities for the type of clothing you wear? Any fifty-year-old Lugnuts who wore their hair long in the late 1960s and early 1970s have probably been aware of this phenomenon -- I should think it applies to most communities and has done since the late 1960s. I remember how a friend (the chief scientist of a British Government research laboratory) was stopped by the police one night around 1968 just because he was bearded and wore sandals. To the police that made him a middle-aged hippy = a drug user. When he complained, the police raided his apartment a few days later, claiming to have had a tip-off he was a drug dealer! What they made of his druid regalia I hate to think - he's probably on the police computer as a suspected transvestite. He didn't make any attempt to sue - I guess he could envisage how the resulting publicity might have resulted in tabloid newspaper headlines reporting how a government scientist puts on a long robe, goes to Stonehenge and worships the rising sun -- hardly a career-enhancing event! While peering nostalgically through my bi-focals and remembering those distant days when the M4 was the latest wonder-product from Wetzlar and the saxophone playing of Archie Shepp was the "New Thing" in modern jazz, I would add a comment to the thread about using Leicas to pick up women. My IIIg once helped me pick up a very sexy girl (in British slang NOOKY isn't just the code word for a Leica accessory), while the young lady who admired my IIIb is now my wife. However my sex life was not improved by buying an M2 or a Leicaflex, so it seems that only a screw-mount camera has the magic qualities. Regards, Doug Richardson