On 27 February 2010 19:17, Cotty <cotty...@mac.com> wrote: > On 26/2/10, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed: > >>I think you're 100% wrong on this, Cotty. I refer you to Willcock vs Muckle: >>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Henry_Willcock >> >>The PCSO in that film was an idiot, which is to be expected of PCSOs. The >>policewoman was bang out of order, abusing her authority. The photographer >>appears to know his rights rather more than most of us do, so presumably was >>deliberately pushing for this to happen, just as Willcock did in 1951, but >>somebody needs to put a stop to this type of abuse of authority. > > Hmm - there is nothing in the above para that I disagree with except the > abuse of authority bit. If the police have the power to stop and search > under a lawful act, how is that an abuse of authority? > > In any society you're going to get unscripted and spontaneous incidents > on the ground and these probably happen in the dozens in the UK every > day. Name me a few countries in the world where this sort of incident > would have had a better outcome and I will consider moving there.
Fremantle, Australia. Today I spent 5 hours wandering the streets of Fremantle with a few photographer friends. We were very obvious, and we didn't get any particularly strange looks (we do silly looking things when we get together). The only time the cops approached us is after we talked a couple of pretty little things to pose on the median strip in the centre of the main street with cars driving past on either side. And they were more concerned for us getting hit by an idiot driver, than the fact. You should move here anyway for the scenery. I have a sore neck from constantly snapping if left & right. I was spoilt for choice & didn't know where to look. Gawd I love hot summer evenings. <lecherous grin> DS -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
