On 28 February 2010 02:02, David Savage <ozsav...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
...we were taking photos > 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.
