Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/20

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Subject: [Leica] Cameras banned
From: dnygr at cshore.com (dnygr)
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 22:25:16 GMT
 
The New York Times ran a story a few months ago about how a person in the 
subway was arrested for taking a photo. It is legal to take photos in the 
subway. The police don't seem to know that. The arrested photographer did. 
He went to court, won and it cost City more than $30,000 for the false 
arrest.?
Even if were against the law to ban photography in public place, it would be 
a delusion to think one could stop photographs from being taken in an age of 
cellphone cameras and the like. 
Why don't they ban guns instead? 
My guess is that one is more likely to harmed by someone's access to guns 
than by their possession of a camera.
Doug