RE: [Leica] Strange, disturbing occurence....

[Colin <CJV@home.com>]

Ah, here's a blast from the past...! :D  

I took this picture just last week:

http://www.availabledark.com/images/nb03.jpg

...and darnit, not a single security guard in sight!  I even waited and
fiddled with my camera.  Jeez, ya think with all the time I spent there
I could have at least held the camera straight. :D

Regards, 
Colin
http://www.availabledark.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us 
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Dan Post
> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 7:24 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Strange, disturbing occurence....
> 
> 
> 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

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