Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/08/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sorry to hear about your woes. You should be able to get your card back. Fight it like a wild cat. "It takes a village," in this case a village of pissed off litigous photographers :-) A buddy recently talked to me about keeping a cheapo CF card and/or cheopo roll of blank film to turn over to authorities should the occassion arise. Scott Albert Wang wrote: >Hi Leica-files, > >Looks like the UTA (utah transit authority) nabbed me >off the trax last Saturday due to my slinging my Canon >D30 camera around my shoulder. Okay, they found some >landscape and architectural shots and confiscated the >CF card. Not a happy camper there. I believe that it's >unlawful search and seizure once again. Anyways, they >wrote me an ordinance fine which is a complete joke. >50 ducks? > >My roommate tested it as well. He brought a Nikon N55. >He did confront the same female police officer (whom I >confronted already once a few months ago) and no >problems there. > >Conclusion: White guy photog, alright. Asian photog, >profiled. I guess that there is color profiling for >photoshop and color profiling for the authorities :p. > >Anyways, I did talk with my bishop who is also a trial >prosecution lawyer and he is going to be settling this >fairly soon. > >2nd Conclusion: Busted once with Olympus E-10, busted >once with Canon D-30 with Canon lens. Never busted >with Leica. Must use Leica lenses on digital Canon. >Okay. Must be that Leica is the magic brand here. > >Okay, hey Paul. Just a shout out to my crew. > >It's back to some real picture taking again. Enuf of >the ranting. > > > >____________________________________________________ >Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page >http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >