RE: [Leica] Rust belt

[Francesco Sanfilippo <fls@5senses.com>]

This was a CLASSIC post!  I was ROTFL when I read this quaint 
little piece......simply delightful!  Thanks for brightening my morning, 
Patrick.  Absolutely hysterical!

Francesco



>1. The watchman is usually not your friend.  Usually he is barely literate,
>so he doesn't remember much about the Bill of Rights and he is worried about
>losing his job.  He can't understand what the hell you're doing there, or
>why you would want to photograph the site -- unless you're some kind of
>INDUSTRIAL SPY.  Yes, you and I know it's 1930s technology and shut down.
>He's a little unclear on these things.  He also doesn't understand that if
>you're on public property and taking pictures for your own use, you are
>within your rights.  He remembers, more or less, that he has seen people in
>uniforms with guns on TV destroying cameras and kicking the shit out of
>photographers, and he wonders whether maybe that's what's expected of him in
>this situation.
>
>If you tell the watchman that you are photographing the site because you
>think it's beautiful, he thinks you're crazy.  If you tell him you think
>it's beautiful because you're an engineer, well, now he KNOWS you're one a
>them there INDUSTRIAL SPIES.
>
>My advice: when the watchman shows up, tell him you were just leaving, and
>it's legal for you to take pictures from the road but you didn't take any
>anyway because you couldn't get the right angle -- see, that fence is in the
>way.  Then leave.  Don't come back.

>-Patrick