> > I think many are still missing an important point. > > While the photographer was punished for his "disorderly" > behavior taking > the photograph ... > > ... yet there is no indication of ANY sanction applied to the > woman and > her rowdy friends for public intoxication. > > Being so drunk you have to fall down on the front steps of a cinema & > night-club complex to vomit is far more "disorderly" than taking a > photograph; as was the MOB action of her "friends". > > That's the only thing "shocking" about the incident; the imbalance of > punishing the photographer while the drunken louts walk (crawl) free.
City centres in Britain on a weekend night are full of men and women so pissed they can barely stand or squat to pee. There are so many people puking in gutters, so many men and women peeing in public that in the morning the streets stink like a zoo. There aren't enough police in the world to arrest all the disorderly drunks, so they pick the easy target - a photographer. There is a perfectly valid photo documentary to be made about the almost Hogarthian state of affairs for the photographer who can inure himself to the stench of urine, stale alcohol and vomit. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
