Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/06/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric wrote: > http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=6698469 > > "If in doubt, police say, tourists should confine their photographs to > marked tourists spots." I went back to the United States of Amerika over Christmas. It was a bit of a sentimental journey, visiting aunts (I'm 54, so these are not spring chickens) http://www.dlridings.se/paw/paw2006/51.html Pretty sisters (who are also 50, but still DO look like spring chickens) http://www.dlridings.se/paw/paw2006/52.html And favorite romps from my childhood. One of these romps was an old country bridge, down at the bottom of Mill Hill in Greenville, Illinois: http://www.dlridings.se/gallery/v/Shoebox/2006v52/07v02-0012.jpg.html My father, with all five of us kids in the car ... probably squeezed in to the back seat at that, would hit the bride a little fast. The bump would tickle your tummy. We liked that. So I was mosying around, taking pictures of this key resource of national security http://www.dlridings.se/gallery/v/Shoebox/2006v52/07v02-0009.jpg.html http://www.dlridings.se/gallery/v/Shoebox/2006v52/07v02-0010.jpg.html And the police came, of course. "Oh brother", I thought to myself, and let my two little brothers (youngest is 47) handle it. Police: What are you doing boys? Brothers: Just looking. Police: Give me your drivers license boys. They did. Police: (Pointing in my direction). What about his? (I was still just snapping away. I figured I wanted to stay out of this one). Brothers: Oh him? He's our brother. He lives in Sweden. You probably wouldn't be able to read his license. Police: ? Police: Nevermind. You two get into the car. They did. He called down to the station (where of course, someone figured out who we were. The Ridings have lived around there since a tad before 1930 and anyone over 60 probably went to school with my parents or one of my aunts or uncles). Police: You boys related to the Ridings over on Terrapin Ridge? All three of us: No, no ... never heard of 'em (My father's youngest brother, our uncle, has been doing some silly things that have made it into the local rag, The Greenville Advocate, recently). He scratched his head and drove off. Daniel