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Subject: RE: [Leica] Strange, disturbing occurence....
From: "Robert G. Stevens" <robsteve@hfx.andara.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 12:02:36 -0400
References: <001b01c18a7e$f59157a0$8c5bfea9@dan14dyp3s7zcg>

I don't get it.

Regards,

Robert

At 09:41 AM 2/5/2002 -0500, Colin wrote:
>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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