Another example of the same type of thing -
Photography Illegal? I have just taken up photography seriously this last year. A friend of mine even talked me into entering the photo contest at the fair this year. To get some good photos, I hit the Net in search of some suggestions/ideas for getting the "perfect" photo. One expert suggested just getting in the car and driving back roads, stopping to take pictures when the subjects or scenes warranted. Thinking that this was a great idea, the next morning I loaded up the car with snacks and camera equipment and off I went.
After a morning of taking pictures from the roadside, all up and down the county, I found a roadside park to stop and eat lunch. Not more than 15mins after I started lunch a sherriff's car pulled up. I didn't think much about it because I thought maybe he thought that I was having car troubles or something like that. But that wasn't the case. They had a call that a strange man had been driving around, stopping periodically and taking pictures. I explained what I was doing. But that didn't seem to change matters. He asked me for the film that I had shot. I asked him, why. He again asked for the film that I had shot. I refused until he could tell me what legal standing he had to take it. He told me that he could take it if he wanted and if I didn't give it to him, they would just take me down to the station, book me and take the film from me when they checked in my personal effects. I did end up giving him a roll of film, some stuff that I shot the day before, because I was curious if there was something on the film that he wanted. As he was leaving he told me that he advised going home and not to be out driving around taking photos because it scares people.
Are we so scared crapless by terrorism, that photography is now a forbidden activity?
Guess I'll be taking pictures of flowers and animals, unless the enviros and PETA have a problem with that. . .
BaddKarma
p088.ezboard.com
Message 20376871
And a web site dedicated to dealing with this problem -
photopermit.org
More links -
Your Rights When Stopped or Confronted for Photography
krages.com
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BC leader says beard, turban triggered stop
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Just point and click? Not so fast, some say
Monday, July 26, 2004
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