Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]><Snip> > You spend half you professional life away from home. > You contract weird and wonderful diseases. > You fight for contracts and copyright with everyone who is trying to rip > you off. > > I, personally, have had malaria,dysentery and dengue Fever. > I've been robbed by corrupt soldiers (and robbed by editors) > Lost track of how many times I've had a gun held to my head. > Watched colleague get beaten to a pulp and not been able to do a damn thing > about it. > Gotten drunk with Serbian soldiers just to make "friends". > Been shot at in Sarajevo. > Left stranded on the side of the road in Zaire. > Had my Domke camera bag stolen by a 1000lb Harp seal. > Had a led truncheon inserted between the 10th and 11th vertebrae by East > German riot police... which I still feel to this day. > Did I mention the tear gas and pepper spray? ...nasty stuff. > Gotten a lung infection for burning toxic building materials. > Been TOTALLY lost in north west Rwanda at night. > Bribed some unknown guerilla force in Central Africa to get through a > border crossing... still not sure which side he was on, but he had the gun > and controlled that stretch of road so... > > ..><Snip> > Greg Locke ><Snip> That's one heck of a list Greg! Better than any resume I ever saw! All I ever got was death threats from angry boyfriends!! Mark :-) Rabiner Was this M's or R's?!!