Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Per the new California law: are they going to have a 5 day wait before you can pick up a M6 or R8?? jh ============================================================================ ============================================================================ ============================================================================ == Member of Mensa since 1985,,,uh I think - -----Original Message----- From: Jim Brick <jimbrick@photoaccess.com> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: Monday, January 04, 1999 7:36 PM Subject: [Leica] RE: Luftwaffen Leica - Help with Identification >Boy... the subject line sure fits the discussion??? > >Jim > >At 06:37 PM 1/4/99 -0600, you wrote: >>>topic, what's the new law in California (!) about it being an >>>invasion of privacy to stand on PUBLIC soil and "invade" privacy >>>with a camera?> anybody heard this? the so-called "papparrazi" >>>law? Oh, well, as usual, such ideas originate in CA and spread >>>like leprosy over the country....... >> >>It's going to eventually be proven unconstitutional, but most photographers >>are afraid of the lawyer costs to get it to the Supreme Court. Hope the CA >>court is all the higher it has to go. >> >>You probably have to be using a telephoto lens to get arrested. That's how >>poorly it's written. >> >>It is the dark side of political correctness, press bashing and left-wing >>cow-towing to celebrities. It ends up penalizing not only those sleazoids >>known as paparazzis, but legitimate photographers as well. Technically >>anyone can be arrested for using a telephoto lens in public places. That's >>how poorly written it is. >>-- >> >>Eric Welch >>St. Joseph, MO >>http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch >> >>Out of my mind. Back in five minutes. > >