In all honesty, I can't answer that. The cop commented both on my use of the camera and that I was sitting on the hydrant. Maybe it was the combination of the two that got the original caller suspicious or concerned. I did explain to the cop that I needed to sit and rest every now and then because of my back pain. Perhaps having a camera and sitting on a hydrant (certainly not a common sight around here)combined with the fact that the caller didn't recognize me from the neighborhood, all contributed.
I don't like the direction in which things are going these days - restrictions of rights and freedoms, more suspicious and paranoid people, the fear with which so many people live, and the number of people who live isolated lives - lives with few, if any friends, families scattered around the country or the world, and so on. Add to the mix some of the truly nasty things that have happened to children, that have happened in the worlds of politics and international relations, the wedge that's been placed between people with different ideas and ways of living, and we have a situation that's getting out of hand. I don't know the answer, but I can understand the concern for such goings on in Albany, California. I don't like it, but I understand it. Shel > [Original Message] > From: William Robb > Would you have been viewed with sufficient suspicion to have warranted a > police questioning if you were just a tired older guy walking down the > street resting every now and again? > Or was it the camera that instigated the police intrusion?
