Has anyone else been stopped by the Brit Police in London, Engerland over the past while?
There's been a lot of hullaballoo in the Media about it and some politicians are even encouraging photographers to go out with their tripods to make a point.
I was in London a while back and deliberately headed around the Houses of Parliament and the London Eye and waved me fucking enormous lens and camera about and no one came near me. But when I went to Canary Wharf and started taking a few pics, some BritPol tosser asked me what I was doing. After a brief conversation explaining that I was actually taking photographs, hence the camera (like the other five or six people doing the same thing that weren't questionned), he walked off shrugging his shoulders. He semed more interested in whether or not I was going to sell the pictures commercially than selling them to the 'Ra (In fairness, the 'Ra already have the place sussed, if anyone remembers the "message" they left a few years back).
The thing is, all the politicos are urging people to take photos, the police are apologising left, right and centre (more right, actually), yet it's still happening. Who's telling the police to do this? Red Ken, who started it all, by insinuating that every gobshite with a camera must be a terrorist (Oh, Ken, how the mighty have fallen....), is gone.
The thing is, if you were sneakily taking pics of anything (and I took pics of both 6 and 5's gaffs without hindrance), youwouldn't be using a tripod or an SLR. You'd more likely use a small compact with a 13x zoom, or even more likely, a handheld DV Cam with an even higher zoom.
Anyway, I'd be interested if anyone else has had similar experiences. I know the fuckers over here think it's their god-given right to ask you to delete pictures (that's another story), but they're largely just ignored (or in my case, laughed at, while asking what law they were trying to apply).
There's been a lot of hullaballoo in the Media about it and some politicians are even encouraging photographers to go out with their tripods to make a point.
I was in London a while back and deliberately headed around the Houses of Parliament and the London Eye and waved me fucking enormous lens and camera about and no one came near me. But when I went to Canary Wharf and started taking a few pics, some BritPol tosser asked me what I was doing. After a brief conversation explaining that I was actually taking photographs, hence the camera (like the other five or six people doing the same thing that weren't questionned), he walked off shrugging his shoulders. He semed more interested in whether or not I was going to sell the pictures commercially than selling them to the 'Ra (In fairness, the 'Ra already have the place sussed, if anyone remembers the "message" they left a few years back).
The thing is, all the politicos are urging people to take photos, the police are apologising left, right and centre (more right, actually), yet it's still happening. Who's telling the police to do this? Red Ken, who started it all, by insinuating that every gobshite with a camera must be a terrorist (Oh, Ken, how the mighty have fallen....), is gone.
The thing is, if you were sneakily taking pics of anything (and I took pics of both 6 and 5's gaffs without hindrance), youwouldn't be using a tripod or an SLR. You'd more likely use a small compact with a 13x zoom, or even more likely, a handheld DV Cam with an even higher zoom.
Anyway, I'd be interested if anyone else has had similar experiences. I know the fuckers over here think it's their god-given right to ask you to delete pictures (that's another story), but they're largely just ignored (or in my case, laughed at, while asking what law they were trying to apply).
