Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/16

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Subject: [Leica] Overdoing it
From: scott at adrenaline.com (Scott McLoughlin)
Date: Tue Nov 16 17:28:22 2004
References: <be.1bc43154.2ec92391@aol.com>

I live in DC.  This summer, I was harrased three times in
a month in a more or less similar fashion.  Taking pics.

Weird. Living here in DC is pretty easy except for the traffic.
But walk around for a few days with a camera and don't
be surprised if you run into a conflict situation. Yes, it's
a real emotional downer when it happens to you. Land
of the Free doesn't seem so apt anymore.

Afterswift@aol.com wrote:

>In a message dated 11/14/04 11:48:06 AM, lug-request@leica-users.org writes:
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>>http://www.billemory.com/NOTES/pocket%20litter.html
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>That's a harrowing story. What could even a terrorist do with tourist 
>shots? 
>So many photos appear in the media, I doubt whether another shot by a 
>tourist 
>would increase the danger. You may have looked suspicious to this guard. 
>Aunt 
>Polly with a P&S might not have prompted this reaction. But you had a 
>Leica, 
>an instrument not known to most people. So this guy got suspicious. Go 
>incognito next time.
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>Bob 
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