Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 12/30/01 6:46 PM, kyle cassidy at kcassidy@asc.upenn.edu wrote: > some of you probably think "how can kyle's shoes be leica related?" but most > of you probably already know that i am just pickled leica energy, anything > that touches me is ON TOPIC. and in this case, my shoes. since a few of you > either: > > a) doubted the veracity of my acquisition > b) begged to see the very rare size 12 bruno's > c) told me to take it to alt.archery and stop bugging them > > here's a photo of my bruno magli's, most likely worn by nicole brown > simpson's real killer, but absolutely 100% leica related: > > http://www.netaxs.com/~cassidy/bruno.jpg > > which brings up an ethical question. you take a photograph of a celeberty > comitting a felony; a serious, extremely violent crime. a policeman > approaches you immediately afterwards and says "i noticed you got a photo of > that. if you publish it, it will be very problamatic for an ongoing > investigation and might destroy months of undercover police work. please > don't print it." but you know that PEOPLE magazine will pay through the nose > for the shot. considering that you're not on assignment for a magazine, you > just happened to catch the image on the way to the acme. later your > approached by the celeberty's publicist who says "we'd like very much for > that photograph never to be published. we're willing to pay you a fair > market price for the negative and your promise that it will never see the > light of day." > > what do you do? Nice shoes. Scan that sucker to cd and stash a bunch of dupes with iron mountain in redundant locations. g. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html