[Leica] UK police use anti-terrorism laws to stop photographers -- and so do American ones

[kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu (Kyle Cassidy)]

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