Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/08/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 6:25 PM, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote: > And so don't leave us hanging? Were they good guys just doing a job? OR? > :-)....................... They were doing a very workmanlike job... which we eventually learned was completely unauthorized by the site owner. When we looked back out the window later, the guys, their pickup truck, and all the police were gone... but the carefully trimmed now-scrap beam sections had been unloaded back onto the ground inside the lot and the fence closed back up. We're waiting to see if those pieces mysteriously disappear in the coming days or nights. -Jeff > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Moore" <jbmmllug at jbm.org> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> > Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2012 12:45 PM > Subject: [Leica] IMGs: Freelance Salvage in Jersey City > > >> So, a few weeks ago Kath told this funny story about seeing a couple >> of guys in the 110 First construction lot, cutting the beams left >> there to size and loading them in a pickup. They took a few days to >> finish the project. For the longest time she didn't really notice >> them. They had hard hats and work gloves and work boots, and they were >> working methodically and with no sign of self-consciousness, so of >> course they were supposed to be there doing a job, right? >> >> It eventually occurred to her that maybe they weren't. She (and >> everyone she told the story to) kind of admired their style. >> >> This morning they appeared right below our window. "Hey, it's those >> dudes! The ones with the hard hats and the torch and the pickup >> truck!" exclaimed Kath. >> >> I took some pictures. >> >> If you crave Leica content: they're with a 180mm APO-Elmarit-R on an >> Olympus OM-D E-M5. But I'm not recommending these as examples of >> stunning optical quality, taken as they were through a window, and in >> some cases heavily cropped. But it's an entertaining little story as >> it unfolds, I think. >> >> To view them in sequence, as the story unfolds, on a nice black >> background - start here: >> >> >> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/jbm0/7858794296/in/set-72157631240860160/lightbox/ >> >> The Flickr set page is here: >> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/jbm0/sets/72157631240860160/with/7858794296/ >> >> >> -Jeff >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information