Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On a public street? I woulda told him to kiss my rosie red schwantz, and if he so much as touched me, I would just tell him- " I got two words for you, Audie!--- Johnny Cochran!" If the company is that big, a settlement of any sort for pain and suffering would get you a full stable of new ASPH lenses for the new M6! :o) Dan ( ATTICA! ATTICA! ATTICA!) Post - ----- Original Message ----- From: "JP M" <skeenut@yahoo.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 7:01 PM Subject: [Leica] Strange, disturbing occurence.... > Hello All: > The group has been very helpful to me as a new M6 > owner in choosing a first lens. > Well, the lens arrived today and it's great and I am > thrilled. > I was shooting around in my office and then at our > Holiday party at a local restaurant. Just my work > friends, no gutsy PJ stuff for me, not yet anyway. > So I was walking back to my car, this is in a city in > central NJ that houses the state University. It was > about 4:00 in the afternoon and the light was great. > So I took out the camera and was walking along the > street when some neat looking concrete stairs that > went up about a story or so to railroad tracks > appeared ahead of me about 75 yards away. A target!! > I was walking toward them with a multi story parking > garage on my left side and was framing, checking > exposure, stopping, fiddling with the camera, framing, > walking, fiddling with the camera...when suddenly a > Security Guard appeared in front of me and said, "You > can't take a picture of this building." To which I > replied, wittily, "Huh?" > To which he replied, menacingly, "This is a private > building, you can't take pictures of it." To which I > replied, incredulously, "What?" And so on...me > explaining that I didn't want to take a picture of his > building, I was just taking an exposure reading and > that I wanted to shoot the stairs over there and him > not understanding and now saying that I couldn't take > pictures here at all and me starting to get hot and > saying what do they own the sidewalk and him getting > loud and close and other guards now coming over and I > bravely....stomped off. Took the picture just past > the edge of their turf, way too close to the stairs > and way too jerky with these goons glaring at me. > I was/am outraged to be intimidated/threatened by > rent-a-cops for some major Pharmaceutical concern > whose initals are J&J that thinks a camera near their > parking garage poses a threat. > Jeesh!! > I guess this is 9.11 fallout. But I'm pissed. > Jeff > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Send your FREE holiday greetings online! > http://greetings.yahoo.com > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html